Senior Staff Accountant

ABOUT THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK

Housing Partnership Network (HPN) is an award-winning membership network of 100+ of the nation’s leading affordable housing and community development nonprofits. Through practitioner-driven peer exchange, policy and innovation, our mission is to leverage the individual strengths and mobilize the collective power of our member organizations. Our vision is that all people live in vibrant and inclusive communities where access to affordable homes creates opportunity and economic mobility.

Since our founding in 1992, HPN has collectively served over 12.8 million people; developed, rehabilitated, or preserved almost 500,000 affordable homes; and launched 14 successful social enterprises. Our work has been recognized with honors including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions and Wells Fargo NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance. 

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND EQUITY

HPN is committed to creating a diverse and equitable environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. HPN recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status and other protected status. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We aspire to build a diverse team, one that better reflects the people and communities we serve. Applicants who contribute to this diversity are strongly encouraged to apply.

WE VALUE

Collaboration - We are a true network. We believe in the power and benefits of broad engagement, empowerment and collaboration.

Connection - We actively build relationships that connect people, ideas, and organizations to forge new paths for improving communities.

Inclusion - We recognize our power comes from the collective and cooperative nature of our work, based on an environment that is inclusive of diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives.

Respect - We are open, honest, and respectful in all of our interactions which strengthens our relationships, our mission, our work with colleagues and members, and ultimately the lives of the people we all serve.

Transformation - We work with our members to transform our industry by creating systemic solutions to help people who live in our communities to thrive.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Staff Accountant (Sr. Associate) will have strong leadership and interpersonal skills, ability to maintain confidentiality, personal integrity, and commitment. Must support staff; work well under pressure in a challenging workplace. Demonstrated mastery of accounting principles, internal controls, and financial analysis as well as tax returns. Highly Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel); be highly organized with the ability to follow instructions precisely; can work discreetly and independently and with a professional demeanor.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparation of financial statements and various other analysis on a monthly basis
• Oversee work of Junior accountant in certain areas of business
• Serve as liaison between accounting and FP&A teams on annual budget, forecasting and other analytical work
• Participate in budget review meetings with business units
• Work closely with controller on critical projects, e.g., annual audit
• Serve as Finance department's technical expert on all finance and accounting systems applications
• Work directly with IS staff on key systems selection, implementation, and integration initiatives
• Development and writing of detailed business requirements
• Drive simplification and standardization of Finance business processes by creating and updating process documentation and workflows then measuring performance and applying improvements
• Develop and execute Strategic Plans for streamlining of finance business processes and integrations
• Responsible for monthly analysis of the Corporate functional expenses
• Act as in house trainer and expert of implemented systems. Train staff as necessary: accounting, FP&A, budget owners, etc. on all new financial systems.
• Continue to look for areas of integration and improvement within the financial systems and accounting close process to optimize investment in new finance platform
• Organize the planning, scheduling, validation and coordination of major software upgrades and new releases; implement any required change management
• Perform work related to special projects involving system analysis and financial management as assigned
• Support any new business review to see how Finance can support and the impact that will have on the system/resource use
• Lead onboarding and off boarding of businesses from the financial systems
• Identify opportunities for efficiencies and standardization. Evaluate and support affiliates’ financial process by becoming a knowledgeable user of their systems with deep understanding of their business process
• Responsible to run monthly analysis on budget vs actuals for variances of 10% or more
• Responsible on setting up new grants in the new system and assist with the grants management and reporting
• Responsible for updating the new systems with any new GL accounts as well as reporting templates
• Responsible for FTE monthly analysis budget vs actuals
• Be the lead business partner on any upgrades or integration of additional systems on finance and accounting platform
• Assist with annual budget process. Take lead on training the budget owners as needed to effectively utilize systems budget tools and processes.
• Train accounting staff as needed, fill in as necessary with close process
• Participate in cross-functional project teams to support system implementations, upgrades, process improvement initiatives or acquisitions, as required
• Ad hoc tasks & projects as required 

QUALIFICATIONS

• College degree, master's degree preferred in accounting or finance
• 5-7 years' experience with a financial services firm or in the accounting department of an organization
• Detail oriented
• Ability to juggle multiple projects while working with deadlines
• Data analysis, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of work coupled with the ability to work on a team and contribute to that team
• High rate of interaction with internal customers and senior management requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to keep confidential highly sensitive company plans and data
• CPA desired

OTHER

• Some travel may be required
• Position is based in Boston, MA