Senior Financial Accountant

Posting Close Date Applicants must submit their completed application by 09-13-2026 at 11:59 p.m. MST

The Senior Financial Accountant position at the City of Tucson’s Business Services Department performs a full range of city-wide accounting and reporting duties for the assigned funds, such as proprietary and fiduciary funds prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR). This position ensures the integrity of the accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions.

Work is performed under the supervision of the financial manager. This position leads and instructs the daily operational work of accounting personnel.

• Prepares, analyzes and submits monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for management review using the City’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, tenant and landlord ledger systems, bookkeeping system and Microsoft Excel.
• Maintains compliance with the city, state and federal regulations.
• Ensures the integrity of accounting information through review and reconciliation of accounting and financial transactions.
• Verifies, consolidates, and enters corrected transactions within the system.
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries by compiling and analyzing account information using City’s systems and software.
• Enters grant revenues and expenses into current systems, including Quick Books system.
• Performs variance analysis and analyzes city-wide trends to ensure the accuracy of financial data, as well as budget-to-actual variances.
• Assists in the preparation and compilation of supporting audit documents for fiscal year-end financial audit using City’s ERP system or other software.
• Works with auditors to complete external audits for all payroll, expense, revenue, balance sheet reports by analyzing and preparing supporting audit documents.
• Responds to auditor questions via email, during meetings or by providing supporting documents.
• Assists supervisor with leading tasks as needed.
• Provides system support to lower-level staff.
• Provides guidance on technical accounting issues and ensuring accuracy in their work.
• Cross-trains to provide backup support for staff.
• Acts as liaison with internal and external stakeholders on city-wide accounting issues as well as communication with customer departments.
• Aids in reviewing and researching information as needed.
• All other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree on a related field
• Two (2) years of directly related experience
• Any combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• Two (2) years’ experience in Accounting, Finance or related field.
• Five (5) years or more experience in bookkeeping or Accounting
• Knows the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Demonstrates strong technical accounting skills.
• Experience in creating and managing worksheets, preferred knowledge with Microsoft Office Product:
  Excel.
• Experience in grant financial management.
• Experience working with ERP systems, including Workday, Advantage, etc.

Job Profile J0815 - Senior Financial Accountant To view the full job profile including classification specifications and physical demands click https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Compensation Grade G108

Hourly Range $29.23 - 43.85 USD

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Exempt

Position Type Regular Time

Type Full time

Department Business Services Department

Department Link https://-Department

This position has been designated to require a criminal background check.

The City of Tucson offers a generous benefits package for benefit-eligible positions. The comprehensive, flexible, and affordable coverage is designed to optimize health and well-being, security and future, and peace of mind.

• Benefits begin with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA…