Accountant II - Housing Department

About the role

The City of Phoenix Housing Department's mission is to provide quality affordable housing and a pathway to self-sufficiency. To fulfill the mission, the City of Phoenix Housing Department owns approximately 5,000 units of public and affordable housing and manages more than 5,200 housing choice vouchers, providing homes to 25,000+ persons. It also offers financing to for-profit and nonprofit partners to help create additional affordable housing opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze fiscal accounting reports and transactions for federal grants.
• Control revenue receipts for expense reimbursements and rental payments.
• Lead, review, and approve bi-weekly payroll reporting transactions and journal entries.
• Prepare budget and operating expense reports and conduct variance analysis.
• Read, interpret, and apply vendor contract agreement terms, payroll and benefit memorandum exceptions, and grant financial compliance requirements.
• Audit and review petty cash and inventory count controls.
• Collect data and prepare general ledger journal entries, invoice receipts, and supporting documentation.
• Answer expenditure and revenue questions from department staff.
• Plan, assign, coordinate, and supervise the work of Payroll Account Clerk III.

Qualifications

• Three years of professional level experience in accounting.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field.
• Master's Degree in Accounting, Business, or a related field, is preferred.
• Experience: Working with budgets, financial analysis, and/or cost and fee analysis.
• Accounts Receivable experience.
• Excellent experience with Microsoft Excel.
• Creating financial reports.
• With reconciliation processes.
• Supervising, including planning, assigning, coordinating, and supervising the work of various accounting functions.
• Researching, analyzing and problem-solving skills independently following contractual agreements and regulations.
• Using SAP.
• Familiarity with accounting transactions rules, regulations, and internal controls.

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:

• Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information.
• 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions.
• Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans.
• Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan.
• Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually.
• Dental, vision, and life insurance options.
• Employer paid long-term disability.
• Free Bus/light rail pass.
• Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year.
• Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days.
• Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period.
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi.

Salary

Pay Range: $65,894.40 to $102,232.00 annually. Hiring Range: $65,894.40 to $92,726.40 annually. Pay Range Explanation: - Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification. - Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity. - Internal Only: Please understand that this is pay grade 056. If selected, your salary offer will be based on the applicable promotion or demotion worksheet in accordance with the City Pay Ordinance. - Promotions occur when the last two digits of the pay grade increase. - Demotions occur when the last two digits of the pay grade decrease. - Lateral transfers occur when there is no change to the last two digits of the pay grade. - When there is a change in the first digit of the pay grade, there may also be a change to your classification or unit. Your job classification can be found in eCHRIS > Personal Details under your name, located in the top left section of the page. The pay grade and classification/unit of your current position may be found by looking up your job title on the job description page.