Accounting and Financial Operations Specialist

Accounting and Financial Operations Specialist

South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International focused on providing affordable housing solutions in Thurston and Lewis counties. We believe that every person, no matter who they are, deserves a decent place to live. Our work includes building new, energy-efficient homes, preparing households for home ownership, guaranteeing affordable mortgages to home buyers, performing critical housing repairs, and running two successful resale stores.

It is an exciting time at South Puget Sound Habitat as our immediate goals for the future include three new developments and hundreds of repair projects, drastically outpacing our past production—and we are working to scale our operations to meet these goals.

The accounting and financial operations specialist is responsible for the full scope of South Puget Sound Habitat's day‑to‑day accounting and transactional finance operations. This includes accounts payable and receivable, payroll processing, general ledger maintenance, bank and account reconciliations, month‑end and year‑end close, grant accounting support, financial statement preparation, and organizational operations tracking.

This position works in close partnership with the Finance and Administration Director, who provides strategic financial oversight, grants compliance leadership, and final review authority on financial reporting and reimbursement submissions. The specialist's work is the operational foundation on which the director's financial oversight is built: accurate books, timely closes, clean reconciliations, and well‑documented grant accounting records are the non‑negotiables of this role.

The organization's financial operations span a multi‑funder environment with revenue sources that include government grant draws, retail store sales, construction contract payments, mortgage collections, home sale proceeds, and charitable contributions. Managing accounting across these diverse revenue streams—each with different recognition rules, reporting requirements, and documentation standards—requires both deep technical competence and strong organizational discipline.

You are an experienced nonprofit accounting professional who takes genuine pride in accurate books, clean reconciliations, and an orderly close process. You are the kind of person who notices when something does not balance before anyone else does, who builds the spreadsheet before being asked, and who considers a well‑documented journal entry a small act of professional integrity. You have spent years building accounting operations that work, and you know that the quality of everything downstream depends on the quality of what you put into the books.

You are comfortable with complexity. You understand that nonprofit accounting is not simple accounting; that restricted funds have rules, that grant reimbursements require documentation, that payroll in a mixed workforce of hourly and salaried employees demands attention, and that month‑end close in an organization with construction projects, store operations, and a mortgage portfolio is not a two‑day exercise. You approach that complexity methodically, without drama, and you know how to work across teams to gather what you need without slowing anyone down.

You are collaborative and communicative. You do not treat accounting as a back‑room function, you understand that accurate financial information is a strategic asset, and you take responsibility for making sure the people who need that information can access it, understand it, and trust it. You are comfortable working within a defined scope under the direction of a senior leader, and you bring the kind of professional stability and institutional reliability that a growing organization depends on.

The specialist is responsible for the complete and accurate execution of the organization's day‑to‑day accounting operations. Responsibilities generally include:

• Manage all accounts payable activities, including vendor invoice review,…