Accounting Manager

• Location 18456 N 25th Ave,Phoenix, AZ, 85023,United States
• Employee Type Full Time Exempt

Description

Accounting Manager

Finance

Hybrid — 18456 N 25th Ave, Phoenix, AZ

Chief Executive Officer

Full-Time

August 2026

The Accounting Manager owns Horizon's accounting function and is accountable for financial records that leadership can act on without independently re-verifying them. This role closes the books for two related entities, maintains accrual-basis financial statements, produces location-level and service-line profitability reporting, and maintains the rolling cash forecast the executive team uses to plan.

This is a build seat as much as an operating one: standing up an operating budget, variance reporting, and a recurring cash forecast is a first-year requirement. The position supervises one bookkeeper and is expected to grow into full ownership of the accounting function as an active advisory engagement concludes.

• Close both entities on a published monthly calendar, reconciling all balance sheet accounts, not cash alone.
• Maintain a written exception log for unresolved close items and elevate rather than post entries that merely balance.
• Maintain accrual-basis books, including accrued payroll, accrued expenses, prepaid balances, and accrued liabilities.
• Provide the monthly financial package to the CEO with a written summary of key drivers and open items.

• Maintain a documented allocation methodology across locations and service lines, reviewed with the CEO at least semi-annually.
• Produce profit and loss reporting by location and service line to inform program-level decisions.
• Tie out intercompany balances between both entities every month.
• Maintain fund accounting for restricted and unrestricted grants, including federal award reporting.

• Own the thirteen-week rolling cash forecast and put it into weekly production, distributed every Monday.
• Assemble and challenge forecast inputs from revenue cycle, payroll, accounts payable, and debt service.
• Identify weeks of projected constraint early enough that action remains available.
• Reconcile forecast to actual each week and correct assumptions that missed.

• Build the annual operating budget by location and service line in partnership with department leadership.
• Stand up and run monthly budget-to-actual variance reporting with written explanation of material drivers.
• Produce departmental and vendor-level spend reporting to support cost-management decisions.

• Supervise the bookkeeper's accounts payable, coding, and reconciliation work, building toward independent ownership.
• Maintain segregation of duties between transaction entry, reconciliation, and payment authorization.
• Document accounting procedures so the function survives the absence of any individual.
• Identify and report control gaps, including within this position's own scope.

• Decides without prior approval: close calendar and process, journal entries within documented policy, account classification, and bookkeeper task priorities.
• Recommends; CEO decides: allocation methodology changes, accounting policy changes affecting reported results, and capitalization thresholds.
• Escalates immediately: any projected cash shortfall, material misstatement in a closed period, control gap, missed close date, or grant expenditure outside permitted use.

• Demonstrated ownership of a full monthly close cycle, including balance sheet reconciliation, across…