FISCAL SUBRECIPIENT MONITOR - 08242026-80532

Location: Nashville, TN (primarily West Tennessee with some potential for Middle Tennessee). This position requires a criminal background check.

Pay

$5,100.00 - $7,646.00 monthly ($61,200.00 - $91,752.00 annually).

Schedule

Full-time. 25% to 50% travel to subrecipient locations, including some overnight travel.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting and experience equivalent to three years of full-time professional accounting or auditing work.
• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty-six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to three years of full-time professional accounting or auditing work.
• Substitution of Graduate Education for Experience: Graduate coursework credit received from an accredited college or university in accounting may substitute for the required experience on a month-for-month basis to a maximum of one year (e.g., 36 graduate quarter hours in accounting may substitute for one year of the required experience).
• Designated as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional accounting or auditing work.

A transcript is required for a proper evaluation for this class.

Necessary Special Qualifications: None.

Examination Method: Education and Experience, 100%, for Preferred Service positions.

This position requires candidates to meet State of Tennessee driver standards, including a valid driver's license and a clean driving record for the past five years (no DUI, reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, or more than 4 moving violations).

About the Role

Accountant 3 will work under the immediate supervision of the Director of Subrecipient Monitoring and Audit. This is a professional-level subrecipient monitoring field that requires self-motivation, organization, and discipline. The role involves providing guidance, education, and technical assistance to subrecipient grantees throughout the monitoring process. The employee must interpret fiscal requirements of SAMHSA, OMB, 2 CFR 200, 45 CFR, State requirements, and grant contract requirements. Knowledge of EDISON is a plus. Excellent customer service skills are essential.

Supervision is initially close but becomes more general as the employee learns procedures and practices.

Responsibilities

• Assists in conducting compliance monitoring of grantee agencies receiving state or federal funds to determine statutory compliance.
• Examines documentation including financial statements, bank statements, balance sheets, purchase invoices, and payroll records to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Conducts financial monitoring of private sector companies to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Prepares draft monitoring narrative reports from work paper summaries under direct supervision to document monitoring results, communicate findings, and make recommendations for corrective actions.
• Analyzes the extent and severity of discrepancies to make recommendations.
• Interprets departmental policies, procedures, rules, and regulations for internal personnel and external grantees.
• Documents work performed during monitoring according to departmental standards, policies, and procedures for review by the assigned supervisor.
• Documents communications with grantees related to the monitoring process.
• Documents completion of each step of the assigned monitoring program.
• Learns to conduct research on federal, state, and department policies, procedures, rules, and regulations to assist in developing the monitoring program for testing.
• Learns to gather information from external grantees and internal personnel to gain an understanding of their operations.

Extensive knowledge of general ledgers and financial statements is required.

Skills and Competencies

Knowledge

• Intermediate knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and governmental accounting principles.
• Intermediate knowledge of administration and management principles.
• Intermediate knowledge of personnel and human resources as it relates to supervision.
• Intermediate knowledge of office productivity software.
• Basic knowledge of mathematics (arithmetic).
• Basic knowledge of law and government as it pertains to financial reporting.
• Basic knowledge of computer operation.
• Basic knowledge of clerical office procedures.

Skills

• Intermediate skill in management of personnel resources.
• Intermediate skill in the management of financial resources.
• Intermediate mathematic skills.
• Intermediate speaking skills.
• Intermediate writing skills.
• Intermediate reading comprehension skills.
• Intermediate monitoring skills.
• Intermediate personnel and workload coordination skills.
• Intermediate instruction skills.
• Intermediate negotiation skills.
• Intermediate spreadsheet design skills.
• Active learning skills.
• Active listening skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Service orientation skills.
• Time management skills.

Abilities

• Intermediate mathematical reasoning ability.
• Intermediate deductive reasoning ability.
• Intermediate oral comprehension ability.
• Intermediate oral expression ability.
• Intermediate written comprehension ability.
• Intermediate written expression ability.
• Intermediate problem sensitivity ability.

Competencies

• Time Management
• Ethics and Values
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Functional/Technical Competencies
• Problem Solving
• Technical Learning
• Delegation
• Directing Others
• Organizing

Tools and Equipment

• Personal Computer
• Telephone
• Fax Machine
• Printer
• Copy Machine
• Scanner
• Calculator
• Other office-related equipment as required