Grant Accountant

Specific Duties

• Prepare monthly vouchers for grants and contracts.
• Be the primary fiscal contact for funders; understand specific grant requirements; ensure compliance with contract conditions and assurances; ensure reporting requirements are met.
• Cookordinate the budgeting process and detail for assigned grants.
• Setup budgets in accounting software and monitor budget activity for grants.
• Resolve accounting and reporting issues as necessary; prepare monthly budget-versus-actual status reports for use by program officers and Accounting Manager; identify issues, concerns and problems and communicate with program officers.
• Cookordinate with the Accounting Manager and Administration and program staff, to ensure transactions are properly recorded and agree to the grant/contract agreement, while also ensuring sub-recipient/subcontract financial activities adhere to deliverable deadlines.
• Maintain financial transactions and accounting for a wide variety of social service programs funded by Federal, state, and local grants and allocation.
• Ensure compliance with funders’ administrative guidelines, timely receipt of revenue, accurate submission of financial reports, assist in audits, and orderly closure of projects.
• Reconcile balance sheet balances and revenue accounts related to grants each month to appropriate supporting detail, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial data in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Follow up on problems detected during the reconciliation and month end process through to final resolution.

Position Qualifications

• Knowledge of budget preparation and administration, financial record keeping, and reporting.
• Knowledge of general accounting principles including reporting requirements and procedures related to federal, state, and other related grants, cost accounting, compliance, and audit.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of contract/grant administration and monitoring.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and other related laws, rules, regulations, and policies pertaining to grant and contract administration.
• Knowledge of specialized reporting requirements and procedures in the preparation of accounting records and financial statements.
• Ability to interpret contracts, requirements, policies, and procedures relating to grants, applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
• Ability to compile and analyze data and prepare summary status reports.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communications skills (active listening, written & verbal).
• Strong financial management skills.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize appropriately.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide variety of people, providers, and agencies.