Village of Glendale Heights, Accountant

The Village of Glendale Heights Finance Department has a full-time position available for an Accountant I. The Accountant I performs technical and administrative accounting work in maintaining the fiscal records and systems of the Village. Maintains general and subsidiary accounts, balances funds and bank accounts, and prepares balance sheets, bond schedules and other financial statements and reports. Assists in investing surplus funds, distributing expenses to various accounts, supervising preparation of Village payrolls, and prorating tax receipts among funds.

The Accountant I searches for and assembles special financial data and information and make studies of financial problems, recommending revisions in procedures, forms, account classifications and statements; also compiles data and information to be used for budget estimates of municipal agencies and prepares special financial reports and remittances for special funds and for other governmental agencies.

The Accountant I requires graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in accounting, finance, business or public administration, or a closely related field, and three to five (3-5) years of progressively responsible municipal/governmental accounting or finance work, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Salary Range: $71,531.20-$; this is an exempt, non-union position. The Village of Glendale Heights offers a generous benefit package including health and dental insurance.

All job offers are conditional upon the satisfactory outcome of pre-employment drug testing and background check. Employees are required to have their permanent residency within a 15 mile radius of the Village, unless an exception is approved by the Village Administrator.

Position posted 1/20/26; applications being accepted until 4:30pm on Friday, February 20, 2026.

The Village of Glendale Heights’ is committed to a nepotism and cronyism policy of employment, advancement and/or contracting practices based upon qualifications and merit, and to ensure that no conflict of interest, favoritism, preferential treatment, or discrimination enters into the employment and contracting process without discrimination in favor of or in opposition to the employment of immediate family members and a personal, political, financial, or commercial relationships.

If you are an immediate family member (an employee’s spouse; an employee’s natural, step, adopted or foster parent; an employee’s mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law or son- in-law; an employee’s grandparent; an employee’s child or grandchild; an employee’s sister or brother; employee’s aunt, uncle, niece, nephew; spouse’s grandparent, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law; or any other dependent residing in the same household of the employee) or a personal, political, financial, or commercial relationship to a current or past Village employee, please indicate so in the “Applicant Information” section of your employment application.