Job Description
Qualifications
At least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage)
Experience using Excel (e.g., formatting spreadsheets using formulas and logic)
Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience as an Accountant in the Merit System
Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage)
Experience using Excel including higher level functions (e.g., graphs, pivot tables, importing/exporting data, lookups, match)
Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Benefits
Agencies provide competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more
Irondale $60,340 - $+3,600
Mountain Brook $63,+60 - $++,236
Vestavia Hills $5+,508 - $+2,310
Responsibilities
Senior Accountants perform a variety of duties related to tracking complex or a high volume of financial information
These duties may include, but are not limited to maintaining accounts payable (AP), accounts recievable (AR), banking, general ledger (GL), grant, and/or budgetary accounts, while ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB))
In doing so, Senior Accountants may process payments, produce and/or review transaction reports, oversee inventory, and facilitate the contract review process
Work is performed in an office setting and may involve the direct supervision of others, including administrative staff and Accounting Assistants
Supervises the AP process and/or processes AP requests
Supervises the AR process and/or processes AR payments
Maintains banking records to ensure online information is accurate
Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits
Performs the financial closing process at the end of an accounting period (i.e., monthly, quarterly, yearly)
Maintains the GL by creating journal entries and GL adjustments, reviewing and approving subordinate's journal entries, and reconciling the GL to other financial records
Oversees grant funds, including maintaining communication with subcontractors, maintaining grant financial records, and producing grant reports
Procures and/or manages inventory (i.e., supplies and equipment) to ensure the products and services are available to meet the operational needs of each department
Generates invoices and/or processes payments
Facilitates the new contract approval process and enters contract parameters into accounting software once approved
Processes payroll by maintaining a database of employees and/or retirees, reconciling payroll information, processing payments to vendors or government entities, and maintaining and filing applicable taxes
Engages in activities designed to ensure professional development, awareness of developments in the field, and knowledge of relevant practices, rules, laws, policies, and/or guidelines
Maintains and creates reports of confidential governmental financial records, ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB))
Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training
Job is primarily sedentary involving sitting for long periods of time, but may involve occasional walking or standing for brief periods
Work involves use of standard office equipment, such as computer, phone, copier, etc
Job description
Target Close Date
02/14/2026
Pay Grade
Grade 23
Type
Full time
Job Summary
Senior Accountants perform a variety of duties related to tracking complex or a high volume of financial information. These duties may include, but are not limited to maintaining accounts payable (AP), accounts recievable (AR), banking, general ledger (GL), grant, and/or budgetary accounts, while ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)). In doing so, Senior Accountants may process payments, produce and/or review transaction reports, oversee inventory, and facilitate the contract review process. Work is performed in an office setting and may involve the direct supervision of others, including administrative staff and Accounting Assistants.
Compensation & Benefits
Agencies provide competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more.
Applications for this position will be considered for the following Merit System employing agencies. The pay range for this job varies depending upon the Merit System employing agency.
Bessemer $50,148 - $77,7+2
Birmingham $51,72+ - $80,225
Health Department $57,44+ - $8+,128
Irondale $60,340 - $+3,600
Jefferson County $56,347 - $87,401
Mountain Brook $63,+60 - $++,236
Tarrant $45,052 - $6+,888
Vestavia Hills $5+,508 - $+2,310
Minimum Qualifications
Candidates must meet at least one of the following options to be considered for this position:
Option A
• At least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage).
• Experience using Excel (e.g., formatting spreadsheets using formulas and logic).
• Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
Option B
• Experience as an Accountant in the Merit System.
• Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage).
• Experience using Excel including higher level functions (e.g., graphs, pivot tables, importing/exporting data, lookups, match).
• Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
Typical Job Duties
• Supervises the AP process and/or processes AP requests.
• Supervises the AR process and/or processes AR payments.
• Maintains banking records to ensure online information is accurate.
• Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits.
• Performs the financial closing process at the end of an accounting period (i.e., monthly, quarterly, yearly).
• Maintains the GL by creating journal entries and GL adjustments, reviewing and approving subordinate's journal entries, and reconciling the GL to other financial records.
• Oversees grant funds, including maintaining communication with subcontractors, maintaining grant financial records, and producing grant reports.
• Procures and/or manages inventory (i.e., supplies and equipment) to ensure the products and services are available to meet the operational needs of each department.
• Generates invoices and/or processes payments.
• Facilitates the new contract approval process and enters contract parameters into accounting software once approved.
• Processes payroll by maintaining a database of employees and/or retirees, reconciling payroll information, processing payments to vendors or government entities, and maintaining and filing applicable taxes.
• Engages in activities designed to ensure professional development, awareness of developments in the field, and knowledge of relevant practices, rules, laws, policies, and/or guidelines.
• Maintains and creates reports of confidential governmental financial records, ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)).
• Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training.
Physical Demands
Job is primarily sedentary involving sitting for long periods of time, but may involve occasional walking or standing for brief periods.
Work Environment
Work is conducted almost exclusively indoors in an office setting. Work involves use of standard office equipment, such as computer, phone, copier, etc.
Eeo Statement
The Personnel Board of Jefferson County provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, ****** orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment with the Personnel Board of Jefferson County, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Each Merit System member city/agency operate its own equal employment opportunity policies available on the individual city/agency website.
Accommodation
To request an accommodation in the application or hiring process due to your own ongoing medical condition or disability, please contact our Accommodations Coordinator at accommodationrequest@pbjcal.org or phone at 205-27+-3500 (select option 1) Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. The accommodation process is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or accommodation in the job application process.
Note
This job posting may close before, or be extended beyond, the listed Target Close Date based on the employment needs of the Merit System. More detail regarding this job is available by clicking Apply.
Disclaimer
This job posting is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of the job duties, responsibilities, or skills and abilities required to do the job and may be changed at the discretion of the Personnel Board at any time.
At least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage)
Experience using Excel (e.g., formatting spreadsheets using formulas and logic)
Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience as an Accountant in the Merit System
Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage)
Experience using Excel including higher level functions (e.g., graphs, pivot tables, importing/exporting data, lookups, match)
Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting
Benefits
Agencies provide competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more
Irondale $60,340 - $+3,600
Mountain Brook $63,+60 - $++,236
Vestavia Hills $5+,508 - $+2,310
Responsibilities
Senior Accountants perform a variety of duties related to tracking complex or a high volume of financial information
These duties may include, but are not limited to maintaining accounts payable (AP), accounts recievable (AR), banking, general ledger (GL), grant, and/or budgetary accounts, while ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB))
In doing so, Senior Accountants may process payments, produce and/or review transaction reports, oversee inventory, and facilitate the contract review process
Work is performed in an office setting and may involve the direct supervision of others, including administrative staff and Accounting Assistants
Supervises the AP process and/or processes AP requests
Supervises the AR process and/or processes AR payments
Maintains banking records to ensure online information is accurate
Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits
Performs the financial closing process at the end of an accounting period (i.e., monthly, quarterly, yearly)
Maintains the GL by creating journal entries and GL adjustments, reviewing and approving subordinate's journal entries, and reconciling the GL to other financial records
Oversees grant funds, including maintaining communication with subcontractors, maintaining grant financial records, and producing grant reports
Procures and/or manages inventory (i.e., supplies and equipment) to ensure the products and services are available to meet the operational needs of each department
Generates invoices and/or processes payments
Facilitates the new contract approval process and enters contract parameters into accounting software once approved
Processes payroll by maintaining a database of employees and/or retirees, reconciling payroll information, processing payments to vendors or government entities, and maintaining and filing applicable taxes
Engages in activities designed to ensure professional development, awareness of developments in the field, and knowledge of relevant practices, rules, laws, policies, and/or guidelines
Maintains and creates reports of confidential governmental financial records, ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB))
Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training
Job is primarily sedentary involving sitting for long periods of time, but may involve occasional walking or standing for brief periods
Work involves use of standard office equipment, such as computer, phone, copier, etc
Job description
Target Close Date
02/14/2026
Pay Grade
Grade 23
Type
Full time
Job Summary
Senior Accountants perform a variety of duties related to tracking complex or a high volume of financial information. These duties may include, but are not limited to maintaining accounts payable (AP), accounts recievable (AR), banking, general ledger (GL), grant, and/or budgetary accounts, while ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)). In doing so, Senior Accountants may process payments, produce and/or review transaction reports, oversee inventory, and facilitate the contract review process. Work is performed in an office setting and may involve the direct supervision of others, including administrative staff and Accounting Assistants.
Compensation & Benefits
Agencies provide competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more.
Applications for this position will be considered for the following Merit System employing agencies. The pay range for this job varies depending upon the Merit System employing agency.
Bessemer $50,148 - $77,7+2
Birmingham $51,72+ - $80,225
Health Department $57,44+ - $8+,128
Irondale $60,340 - $+3,600
Jefferson County $56,347 - $87,401
Mountain Brook $63,+60 - $++,236
Tarrant $45,052 - $6+,888
Vestavia Hills $5+,508 - $+2,310
Minimum Qualifications
Candidates must meet at least one of the following options to be considered for this position:
Option A
• At least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage).
• Experience using Excel (e.g., formatting spreadsheets using formulas and logic).
• Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
Option B
• Experience as an Accountant in the Merit System.
• Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage).
• Experience using Excel including higher level functions (e.g., graphs, pivot tables, importing/exporting data, lookups, match).
• Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
Typical Job Duties
• Supervises the AP process and/or processes AP requests.
• Supervises the AR process and/or processes AR payments.
• Maintains banking records to ensure online information is accurate.
• Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits.
• Performs the financial closing process at the end of an accounting period (i.e., monthly, quarterly, yearly).
• Maintains the GL by creating journal entries and GL adjustments, reviewing and approving subordinate's journal entries, and reconciling the GL to other financial records.
• Oversees grant funds, including maintaining communication with subcontractors, maintaining grant financial records, and producing grant reports.
• Procures and/or manages inventory (i.e., supplies and equipment) to ensure the products and services are available to meet the operational needs of each department.
• Generates invoices and/or processes payments.
• Facilitates the new contract approval process and enters contract parameters into accounting software once approved.
• Processes payroll by maintaining a database of employees and/or retirees, reconciling payroll information, processing payments to vendors or government entities, and maintaining and filing applicable taxes.
• Engages in activities designed to ensure professional development, awareness of developments in the field, and knowledge of relevant practices, rules, laws, policies, and/or guidelines.
• Maintains and creates reports of confidential governmental financial records, ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)).
• Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training.
Physical Demands
Job is primarily sedentary involving sitting for long periods of time, but may involve occasional walking or standing for brief periods.
Work Environment
Work is conducted almost exclusively indoors in an office setting. Work involves use of standard office equipment, such as computer, phone, copier, etc.
Eeo Statement
The Personnel Board of Jefferson County provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, ****** orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment with the Personnel Board of Jefferson County, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Each Merit System member city/agency operate its own equal employment opportunity policies available on the individual city/agency website.
Accommodation
To request an accommodation in the application or hiring process due to your own ongoing medical condition or disability, please contact our Accommodations Coordinator at accommodationrequest@pbjcal.org or phone at 205-27+-3500 (select option 1) Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. The accommodation process is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or accommodation in the job application process.
Note
This job posting may close before, or be extended beyond, the listed Target Close Date based on the employment needs of the Merit System. More detail regarding this job is available by clicking Apply.
Disclaimer
This job posting is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of the job duties, responsibilities, or skills and abilities required to do the job and may be changed at the discretion of the Personnel Board at any time.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior Accountant position is now open for candidates interested in the Accountant Jobs sector. This role in Vestavia Hills offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Accountant Jobs is a plus.
