Senior Accountant - Financial Reporting & GL

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Finance Full Time Akron, OH, US

Salary: $62,300.00 Annually

Job Title: Senior Accountant Financial Reporting & General Ledger

Reports to: Director of Finance

Department: Finance

Date: October 2026

FLSA Status: Exempt

Minimum Salary: $62,300 Salary consideration is based on education, background, and experience.

AMHA offers a culture devoted to everyone being equally valued, a comprehensive compensation and benefits program including, but not limited to:
Competitive salary;
Participation in the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System;
Excellent medical, free dental and vision plans with minimal out of pocket cost;
Basic Life insurance;
Fourteen paid holidays;
Paid vacation, personal and sick plans.

General

Purpose:

Performs accounting, reconciliation, financial reporting, and compliance work to maintain accurate accounting records across the Authority’s programs and business activities. Prepares and posts complex journal entries, completes balance sheet reconciliations, maintains supporting schedules, assists with monthly and year-end close, prepares Financial Data Schedule and HUD reporting support, and resolves accounting discrepancies under the direction of the Controller. All activities must support AMHA's mission, strategic goals and objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing of all responsibilities, duties and/or skills required. Other duties may be assigned.

• Prepares journal entries, including accruals, reversals, cash adjustments, beginning-balance corrections, allocations, and year-end entries; maintains complete supporting documentation.
• Completes monthly balance sheet reconciliations and researches aged, unusual, unsupported, or out-of-balance items; prepares corrective entries and escalates significant issues to the Controller.
• Reviews detailed general ledger and trial balance activity for Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, Central Office Cost Center, Local Housing Authority, Capital Fund Program, business activities, component units, federal grants and other programs as assigned.
• Prepares monthly and year-end supporting schedules for accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, fixed assets, tenant accounts, security deposits, compensated absences, sick pay, payroll liabilities, and other assigned accounts.
• Prepares equity roll forwards; verifies account classifications and researches prior-year and current-year activity.
• Prepares, reconciles, validates, and records assigned Financial Data Schedule components under the Controller’s direction, including project-level data, eliminations, component unit information, and correction of edit flags.
• Performs reconciliations and supporting analyses for operating subsidy, Central Office fees, tenant accounts receivable, allowances, inventory, and other accounts as assigned.
• Supports monthly and year-end closing by confirming assigned modules, schedules, reconciliations, and entries are complete and accurate by established deadlines.
• Prepares audit schedules, responds to assigned audit requests, reconciles financial statement and note amounts to accounting records, and maintains audit-ready support.
• Assists with preparation of the statistical section of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
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