Senior Accountant Consultant​/Interim Senior Accountant

TITLE: Senior Accountant Consultant / Interim Senior Accountant

REPORTS TO: Senior Director of Finance

STATUS
:
Non-exempt, Hourly, Full-Time Permanent Temp

LOCATION
:
Chicago, Illinois (currently hybrid remote/in-office schedule)

SALARY RANGE
: $85,000- $100,000 (commensurate with experience)

ABOUT ALL CHICAGO:

All Chicago MHH's mission is to unite our community and resources to provide solutions that ensure and sustain the stability of home. On any given night, nearly 12,000 Chicagoans do not have a place to call home. These are our neighbors and together we can ensure that we all have stable homes.

All Chicago MHH prevents and ends homelessness through emergency financial assistance, community partnerships, data analytics, and training and research. We strengthen our community's collective efforts to prevent and end homelessness, guided by a vision of impact, influence, and inspiration. As our name implies, All Chicago MHH brings together homeless service providers, non profit partners, donors, and people with the lived experience of homelessness in a strategic effort to make homelessness history in Chicago.

We bring a sense of collaboration to our work and actively seek solutions through partnership! Come to work with passionate, like-minded colleagues in a supportive environment as we help end homelessness. Learn more chicago.org.

All Chicago is seeking an experienced Senior Accounting Consultant / Interim Senior Accountant to provide hands‑on accounting, reconciliation, grants accounting, and process improvement support to the Finance team.

This temporary position is intended for a seasoned accounting professional who can quickly assess existing practices, resolve outstanding accounting matters, strengthen processes and internal controls, and establish sustainable procedures for ongoing operations. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable performing detailed accounting work and identifying opportunities to improve workflows, documentation, controls, and systems.

The position will have particular responsibility for balance sheet reconciliations, accounts receivable and collections, payments requiring reissuance, grant match accounting, and HUD vouchering and reimbursement processes.

Given All Chicago's significant portfolio of federal, state, local, and other government‑funded programs, the successful candidate should have a strong foundation in nonprofit and/or cash receipts, and the general ledger.

• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Research and resolve reconciling items, aged balances, and historical discrepancies.
• Maintain schedules and supporting documentation for audit readiness.
• Assist with month‑end close activities.
• Improve reconciliation processes, templates, and documentation.

• Evaluate and improve payment void and reissuance procedures.
• Establish documentation, approval workflows, and internal controls.
• Perform weekly reconciliations of outstanding reissued payments
• Develop tracking and aging reports.
• Document procedures for ongoing Finance staff use.

• Analyze and reconcile accounts receivable balances.
• Develop collection strategies for aged receivables.
• Research outstanding balances and coordinate collection efforts.
• Maintain tracking, escalation, and follow‑up processes.
• Recommend improvements to billing and collection workflows.

• Support grant match compliance and reporting requirements.
• Review and enhance match accounting processes.
• Develop grant‑specific match tracking tools.
• Coordinate with Finance, Grants, and Program teams.
• Prepare documentation for compliance and audit purposes.