Senior Partnership Accountant

About the role

Join us in shaping Seattle’s streets! At the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), we don’t just move people—we connect communities, build safer streets, and create a more sustainable city. With a bold vision for the future, we’re tackling big challenges: making travel safer, cutting carbon emissions, and ensuring reliable, affordable transportation for everyone—no matter who they are or where they live.

The Senior Partnership Accountant plays a key role in supporting the financial health of SDOT’s partnerships, helping ensure that more than $400 million in annual revenue is billed and recovered accurately. In this role, you’ll be the go-to expert for managing billing, accounts receivable, and revenue recovery for work performed with third-party customers. You’ll bring specialized accounting knowledge to oversee complex financial activities, maintain strong internal controls, and ensure that partner agreements are followed and costs are fully recovered. You’ll work closely with project managers and teams across the department, building strong working relationships as you resolve billing questions, prepare journal entries, and keep financial processes running smoothly. This role also supports collaboration across City departments, handling more complex interdepartmental billings and ensuring clear, consistent communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end billing processes for third-party work, ensuring invoices are accurate, timely, and compliant with contracts, policies, and accounting standards.
• Administer accounts receivable, including monitoring balances, researching issues, coordinating collections, and ensuring timely revenue recovery.
• Perform reconciliations, analyze financial transactions, and resolve billing, revenue recognition, and receivable discrepancies.
• Collaborate with project managers, operational staff, and external customers to verify billable costs, gather required documentation, and ensure accurate cost recovery.
• Prepare and maintain financial reports, billing schedules, and supplemental labor reports.
• Ensure compliance with City financial policies, internal controls, audit requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Manage monthly rent collection for SDOT-handled leases.
• Organize and maintain documentation and filing systems.
• Monitor and accurately draw down deferred revenue related to agreements.
• Support departmental goals related to diversity and social justice.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field (requires satisfactory completion of at least 24 semester hours or 36 quarter credit units in accounting with no substitution allowed).

Experience: Three (3) years of professional experience in general or governmental accounting.

OR: An equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the position duties.

Though not requirements, strong candidates may have some of the following experience or be able to demonstrate comparable skills:

• Experience managing billing, accounts receivable, contract billing, customer invoicing, and revenue/cost recovery for capital projects and reimbursement agreements.
• Strong background in project accounting and financial analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, complex formulas, data analysis, financial modeling).
• Experience with financial systems such as PeopleSoft or Oracle.
• Experience supporting external audits and implementing audit recommendations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including trend identification.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex financial information to non-financial audiences.

Work Environment

Work is performed in a hybrid schedule, with at least three days each week in a City office and up to two days worked remotely within a standard 40-hour work week.

Pay

The City’s full salary range for this position is $48.07 - $55.96 hourly.

Benefits

The City of Seattle offers a comprehensive benefits package including vacation, holiday, and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance for employees and their dependents. More information about employee benefits is available on the City's website at: https://www.seattle.gov/human-resources/benefits.