Lead Accounting Analyst

This position requires you to live within a 200-mile radius of our Nashville, TN office.
After in-office training is completed, your in-office time is one day per week, and upon
Management request.

Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change due to changes in our business processes or other business-related reasons.

POSITION SUMMARY: Performs advanced professional accounting related to recording, analyzing, and maintaining the financial records of Tennessee Housing Development Agency by adhering to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Prepares the Agency’s financial statements (including the notes to the financial statements, management discussions and analysis section, or other sections as applicable) and ensures all sections are complete and accurate.
• Prepares supporting schedules and documentation for periodic reports.
• Ensures financial statements are properly posted in the public domain and in MBS investor portals.
• Prepares a variety of professional accounting and other reports that relate to financial statements, quarterly and other reports.
• Provides financial data to the organization’s management as requested so that management may consider such information in the management of such programs.
• Periodically reviews federal grant guidelines for changes that impact accounting and financial reporting of grants, with the objective of maintaining compliance with such grantor requirements.
• Prepares and submits the Agency’s annual indirect cost rate proposal.
• Prepares and submits the Agency’s quarterly Mortgage Bankers Financial Reporting Form (MBFRF) to Ginne Mae.
• Assists in the review of the major accounting system processes; identifies internal control deficiencies; offers recommendations for process improvements that consider both internal controls as well as process flow efficiencies; may serve as a subject matter expert for one or more professional software systems.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license in good standing.
• Three (3) years of experience in responsible professional accounting work and financial statement preparation. Five years preferred.

The above qualifications express the minimum standards of education and/or experience for this position. Other combinations of education and experience, if evaluated as equivalent, may be taken into consideration.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:
• Ability to perform professional accounting work of considerable difficulty.
• Ability to apply accounting theory and technique to the solution of varied and complex fiscal problems and to devise workable solutions.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Maintains credibility through sincerity, honesty, and discretion.
• Builds and maintains positive relationships with internal and external constituents.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong time management skills; uses time effectively; consistently meets deadlines.
• Maintains a high level of confidentiality.
• Documents regularly, thoroughly, accurately, and completely.
• High level of detail and accuracy.
• Exercises good and consistently fair judgment, courtesy, and tact in dealing with the staff and public in giving and obtaining information.
• Computer literate; proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and the internet; able to effectively adapt to and use other computer systems as needed for daily activities; extensive knowledge and skill of professional accounting software.

Special Demands:
The special demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a staff member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and talk and hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to walk; reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.