Accounting Operations Supervisor

Housing Catalyst Financial Services Department

Join Our Team at Housing Catalyst! We're dedicated to transforming communities through affordable housing, fostering a supportive environment where teamwork, compassion, and professional growth thrive. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with its vibrant arts scene and abundant outdoor activities, we offer comprehensive benefits, wellness programs, and innovative initiatives to enhance work-life balance.

Our work can only succeed with a strong team of people who are passionate about affordable housing and its positive impact on lives and communities. Our organization cares deeply about the people we serve, and we care about our employees who work hard to support them. As such, we are committed to our employees' professional development as well as their health and wellness.

Housing Catalyst creates a supportive work environment, emphasizing its core values of teamwork, compassion, honesty, accountability, and fun. We provide programs geared toward wellness, mindfulness, and various employee enrichment opportunities. We have an active total worker health committee that encourages work-life balance, mindfulness, and healthy lifestyles with numerous activities throughout the year. Our excellent benefits package includes medical, dental, and life insurance, counseling support through an employee assistance program, paid holidays, and personal time off, as well as retirement benefits.

Housing Catalyst participates annually in a wellness campaign. We are recognized as a Health Links Certified Healthy Workplace™ Leader in the state of Colorado. We periodically offer mindfulness classes and our mindfulness program has even been in the news.

Compensation and Benefits

• Initial Hiring Range: $66,348 - $81,480 annually
• Expected Salary Range: $66,348 - 89,240 annually
• Training Range (for candidates with unfulfilled qualifications): $58,200 - $65,960
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Generous vacation and holidays
• Retirement benefits

The primary purpose of this position is to oversee day-to-day payroll and accounts payable operations, including hands-on payroll processing, supervision of accounts payable staff, workflow oversight, issue resolution, and support for related accounting activities. The position also ensures work is completed accurately and timely, supports process improvements and performs related accounting activities.

• Conduct in-depth review and validation of payroll data and supporting documentation, including approved personnel changes, deductions, benefit changes, garnishments, payouts, and other payroll inputs; research and resolve discrepancies before payroll is submitted for final management review and submittal.
• Process bi-weekly payroll after Talent Management has completed review of employee time entry records and confirmed payroll is ready for processing.
• Complete post-submission payroll activities, including initiating and reconciling HSA, FSA and retirement plan contributions and transfers, verifying payroll-related funding and disbursements, and preparing and posting required payroll accounting entries and reconciliations.
• Prepare payroll registers, reports, journal entries, allocations, and supporting documentation, including month-end and year-end payroll related accounting activities.
• Maintain payroll records and support compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Oversee day-to-day accounts payable operations to ensure invoices, payments, and related transactions are processed accurately, timely, and in accordance with established procedures and internal controls.
• Provide work direction, training, guidance, and day-to-day oversight to accounts payable staff; monitor workflow, review work for accuracy and completeness, and assist in resolving processing issues.
• Support procurement, purchase order, invoice approval, and payment workflows, and follow up on discrepancies, exceptions, or incomplete documentation as needed.
• Prepare and support accounting entries, schedules, reconciliations, reports, and other accounting activities related to…