Senior Accountant

Performs a variety of highly complex professional accounting and financial reporting duties to ensure compliance with governmental accounting standards, financial policies and internal controls. Primary focus is on the monthly financial close process, which includes balance sheet reconciliations, general ledger detail reviews, and financial reporting, in addition to being primary in one or more of the following major focus areas: general ledger accounting, cash and investment management, debt management, capital assets, grant accounting, project accounting, and revenue / expenditure management.

This position is also responsible for preparing audit schedules and supplemental information for the City’s annual comprehensive financial report (ACFR). The successful candidate must be able to work with considerable independence and successfully complete finance and accounting projects of a difficult and complex nature, in addition to completing normal routine accounting assignments.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned financial professional with a minimum of five years of comprehensive experience in municipal accounting and community facilities districts and special assessments management, including hands‑on expertise within the past 12 months with proficiency in double‑entry bookkeeping and trial balance integrity, excellent analytical and critical thinking, self‑starter who thrives in deadline‑driven environment, collaborative mindset with cross‑functional department experience and ready to perform lower‑level accounting tasks when needed to ensure the integrity of the City’s financial operations.

This individual demonstrates strong knowledge across the full spectrum of governmental accounting functions, be adaptable and resourceful.

At the City of Goodyear, you will be a part of an organization that values its employees as its greatest asset. You will become part of a dedicated team of professionals that are committed to build and maintain a highly engaged workforce. You will be challenged to learn and grow in an environment that values employee development and career-building. You will thrive in a culture of innovation.

We believe that successful employees are those that possess these six core values:

Adaptability
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Empathy
- Optimism – Innovation

• Provides leadership to the Finance team members who perform accounting duties, including providing guidance and support during the implementation of new technology focused on improving work processes and providing excellent customer service
• Manages and monitors the work of other accounting positions as assigned. Directs staff, reviews and approves accounting transactions before posting to the general ledger, as well as, reviews and approves financial reports before distribution

• Responsible for the preparation of audit schedules, financial statements, notes disclosures, budget and statistical schedules related to the annual comprehensive financial report
• Identification and implementation of applicable GASB pronouncements and statements, as well as, other authoritative standards; ensures reoccurring transactions are being accounted for appropriately; researches and determines the appropriate accounting treatment for irregular and uncommon transactions
• Manages and monitors lease agreements, development agreements, continuing disclosures, grants, promissory notes, contracts and other legal documents to ensure the appropriate assets and liabilities, and revenues and expenditures are recorded in a timely manner
• Performs complex monthly balance sheet reconciliations to ensure that all assets and liabilities reconcile to statements, subsidiary ledgers, or aging reports, as appropriate;
• Reconciles, allocates and records investment activity, state shared revenues, property tax revenues, franchise fees and other revenues in a timely and accurate manner; ensures that items are recorded correctly; processes reclassifications and adjusting entries, as required
• Analyze grant revenues and related reimbursable expenditures; prepare the schedule of federal awards and support the annual single audit of federally-funded programs
• Review, reconcile, and analyze…