Senior Staff Accountant

Job Title: Senior Staff Accountant

Department: Finance

Reports to: Manager, Accounting

What It’s Like Working Here:

The Chicago Blackhawks experience isn’t just on the ice. Our office, located in the United Center, promotes a fun, engaging, fast-paced and collaborative atmosphere where we can celebrate both hockey and each other. Our commitment to curating an environment where all individuals feel empowered to bring their best self to work each day can be seen throughout our organization. Whether you are a job seeker looking to join the organization, a current member of our amazing team, or someone looking to help support our mission, our goal is the same – to reimagine the potential of hockey, which we strive to achieve through memorable, inclusive experiences.

The Top Shelf:

The Senior Staff Accountant for the Chicago Blackhawks will be responsible in completing bank reconciliations across several entities, maintaining accounts receivable, creation and maintenance of invoices, verifying and reconciling certain account balances, communications with customers and employees for payments and payment plans, assisting in journal entries and other accounting processes. The Senior Staff Accountant must maintain the highest level of integrity.

How You’ll Contribute:

• Complete account reconciliations for all entities.
• Work with proper team members to make sure entries are ready for month end close
• Work with department heads and customers to resolve any issues that may arise related to payments.
• Assist in the collection of past due balances.
• Perform and review journal entries
• Work with auditors as required
• Assist the Finance department with any other needs or special projects.

Player Stats and Qualifications:

• Undergraduate Degree in accounting or Finance.
• 3-6 years’ experience in accounting or finance. Prior experience in sports finance helpful.
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy of all reports and financials.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Experience in NetSuite and Microsoft Suite of products preferred.
• Strong written and communication skills.
• Work well in a team environment.
• Respond to employee and customer in a timely and professional manner
• Willingness to work non-traditional hours in support of Company events as requested.
• Ability to address, adapt to, and overcome challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated aptitude for driving results
• High attention to detail
• Demonstrates Chicago Blackhawks core values of integrity, curiosity, empathy, collaboration, and originality

The Team:

The Chicago Blackhawks started their journey as one of the NHL’s “Original Six” professional ice hockey teams in 1926. Members of the Central Division in the NHL’s Western Conference and six-time Stanley Cup Champions (1934, 1938, 1961, 2010, 2013, 2015), the team calls the United Center home.

Each day the Team works to uphold our mission to reimagine the potential of hockey. At its core, the team and greater organization uphold its mission through its core values centered around integrity, curiosity, empathy, collaboration, and originality. They are fiercely dedicated to evolving and delivering new and legendary fan experiences and captivating new and diverse audiences, both on and off the ice. As part of their unwavering commitment to drive impact and purpose in the Chicago community, the organization opened the Fifth Third Arena (the team’s official practice facility and community space for youth hockey development), continues to make expansions to the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation, and acquired the AHL team the Rockford IceHogs.

The Chicago Blackhawks continue to grow in its commitments to honor and celebrate Black Hawk's legacy by offering our platforms, making meaningful contributions, collaborating with Native American people, and reimagining ways to support the many Native American people and communities they live amongst and alongside. They engage in this work through their formal partnership with Black Hawk’s ancestral tribe, the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, which the tribe established with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2021.

The Chicago Blackhawks is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases.