Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Analyst

Description

Accountant position in the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, Finance Division. This position is open to current AFSCME bidders and the public.

Responsible for reviewing and processing invoices, ensuring invoice payments have been made, communicating with vendors and delegate agencies about orders, invoices, and check payments, monitoring the department's expense accounts relative to the budget, providing expense and payroll reports to the department and other city departments upon request, and reviewing applications and agreements as needed.

• Codes, records, and updates journal entries (e.g., expenditures, account transfers, budget revisions) using manual and computerized spreadsheets.
• Audits financial documents to ensure entries are accurate, appropriately allocated to accounts, and comply with contract and funding guidelines, documents errors, and reconciles accounts as required.
• Monitors account balances and adjusts spending levels and fund re‑allocations to ensure the availability of funds to cover expenditures.
• Prepares various reports (e.g., program and operating budgets, financial statements, balance sheets, financial reports) of a moderately complex nature using computer spreadsheets.
• Analyzes historical records and anticipated economic trends and forecasts future expenses and revenues.
• Participates in the compilation and analysis of fiscal data for inclusion in complex financial reports.
• Processes payments for various parties (e.g., editing, reapplying, and confirming receipt of payments, processing direct and order payment vouchers for grant‑funded programs).
• Calculates and prepares grant/project revenue collection reimbursement.
• Reviews grant/project applications and awards.
• Examines sub‑grant agreements for any fiscal related requirements.
• Reviews departmental requests for appropriating funds, authorizing grant/project obligations, monitoring and reporting grant/project expenditures, recording receivables and collections, and closing out grant/project awards.
• Coordinates and submits final close‑out reports to various grantors.
• Maintains and reports in‑kind awards and expenditures incurred by the sub‑grantees.
• Additional duties may be required for this position.

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting or a directly related field, plus 15 semester hours in Accounting.
• Must provide transcripts or a diploma/degree at the time of processing, if applicable.

• Experience managing vendors, vendor accounts and delegate agencies.
• Accounting work experience in federal, state, or local government.
• Invoice management and processing payments.
• Experience interacting with the disability community and disability organizations (plus).

Applications for this position will be accepted until 11:59 pm CDT on 7/7/26.

2102 W Ogden, Chicago, IL. Monday‑Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

This position is in the Career Service.

The City of Chicago is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Military Friendly, and Fair Chance Employer.