Bookkeeper

Energy Innovation Corp; Billings (MT); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits plan

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Merck in Billings, MT is seeking a Bookkeeper who is steady through close cycles and creative in forecasting. The role blends a $60,000 - $86,000 salary with autonomy to shape SQL work and a team that grows together in a hybrid setting.

You will partner with department heads to keep budgets honest, support pricing and margins modeling, and help prepare board decks with insightful financial storytelling. This position offers mentorship, benefits, and room to grow in Tax Preparation and Cultural

Qualifications

• Experience with bookkeeping processes and financial close
• Ability to model pricing, margins, and unit economics
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort handling hybrid work dynamics and accountability
• Experience supporting auditors or compliance is a plus
• Ability to draft board-level presentations from numbers

Responsibilities

• Partner with department heads to keep budgets honest
• Support pricing, margins, and unit economics modeling
• Reconcile payroll liabilities and MT filings
• Draft board decks translating numbers into decisions
• Catch misclassifications before audits
• Drive annual planning and consolidate financial projections

Skills

Team leadership

Management reporting

Communication

Hybrid work

Job description

Merck needs a Bookkeeper steady enough for the close and creative enough for the forecast, here in Billings. This role blends $60,000 - $86,000 pay with the autonomy to shape SQL work and a team that grows together.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with department heads across Billings, MT to keep budgets honest
• Support the Bookkeeper in modeling pricing, margins, and unit economics
• Reconcile payroll liabilities so the MT filings never bounce
• Draft the board deck that turns numbers into a decision
• Catch the misclassified entry three months before the auditor would
• Drive the annual planning cycle and consolidate financial projections

What You'll Bring

• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements
• Real Team Leadership chops, plus the Management Reporting curiosity to keep growing
• Comfort being accountable for a calmly-fast-moving outcome in a hybrid role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Calm under the candor-rich chaos a mid-level role tends to generate

Merck is what happens when mentorship-focused engineers in Billings decide that good enough is the enemy of great Cultural Awareness. We assume good intent first and ask clarifying questions second, which keeps the outcome-focused days drama-free.

Yours for the taking: $60,000 - $86,000, a mentor, a benefits plan, and the room to grow your Tax Preparation and Cultural Awareness side by side.

The Billings, MT office is bringing people on this season, and this is one of those roles.