Sr Accountant; HHS
Job in
Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, 85261, USA
Listed on 2026-03-02
Listing for:
SRPMIC
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-03-02
Job specializations:
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Accounting
Accounting Manager, Financial Reporting, Financial Analyst, Senior Accountant -
Finance & Banking
Accounting Manager, Financial Reporting, Financial Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position Summary
Under general supervision of the Accounting Manager, assists in maintaining and improving the department budget, general ledger, accounts, grants and other finance-related processes. Records and analyzes a variety of accounting transactions to ensure they are performed in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for governmental accounting that meet Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community’s objectives of the River People Health Center.
This Job Class is treated as FLSA Exempt.
Essential functions may vary among positions and may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of tasks performed by all positions in this classification.
Assists with developing and enhancing the HHS Department’s accounting, finance, grants and other finance-related processes; along with guiding the future development of the department’s accounting program.
- Serves as an upper-level HHS accounting lead contact for financial and technical resources.
- Evaluates and improves the effectiveness of HHS accounting-related service delivery by utilizing industry benchmarks.
- Assists in implementing best business practices for HHS accounting services.
- Assists in developing and implementing an accounting support services framework and system that is tailored to accommodate the department’s needs.
- Works with Accounting Manager and Controller to continuously improve accounting operational policies, practices, procedures and methodologies.
- Assists and mentors accounting staff to attain the technical and customer service skills along with experience necessary to perform independently and attain further career progression goals.
Identifies and implements the HHS accounting program productivity and process improvements in accordance with GAAP.
- Assists with the department’s grants and contracts financials including budget preparation, adherence to monthly and annual budgets, and problem resolution.
- Works independently to manage and analyze the collection, recording and allocation of costs and revenue; ensure accurate profit and loss calculations and budgets vs. actual costs.
- Takes a proactive role in identifying accounting anomalies and works with the department’s executive team to resolve budgeting challenges.
- Ensures proper and timely recording of department financial transactions in accordance with GAAP, Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and SRPMIC policy.
- Assists the HHS accounting team in the month-end close activities including required reviews and approvals.
- Recommends and assists in implementing and enhancing policies and procedures for HHS grants and contracts practices to ensuring compliance with funding source requirements and other related regulations.
- Provides guidance and training for HHS accounting systems, procedures and functions.
- Assists in annual internal and external audits.
- Assists with the Medicare Cost Reporting.
- Analyzes P-card expenses and trends.
Prepares and reviews monthly account reconciliations utilizing the SRPMIC and department standard format and reports discrepancies.
- Reviews and submits HHS accounting activities and transactions to the Finance Department, Grants & Contracts Division.
- Prepares the budget authorization requests for all funding sources.
- Researches and resolves questionable General Ledger entries by working with the Finance Department’s General Ledger staff.
- Reviews account reconciliations, performs variance analyses and resolves outstanding reconciliation items and reports anomalies to the Accounting Manager in a timely manner.
- Provides supporting documentation to substantiate all accounting transactions and reports. Ensures requisite supporting and backup documentation is complete and straightforward.
- Prepares management reports and submits to Accounting Manager and Controller for initial review.
Coordinates and prepares for department accounting interim and year-end audits.
- Assists…
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