Grants Accountant (Part-time)

Job Overview

The Grants Accountant is responsible for professional accounting work performing standard accounting tasks in an established financial system. The Accountant ensures that financial reports are prepared accurately and promptly. The work involves the maintenance of complex accounting records and preparation of a wide range of reports and statements, including payroll, fringe benefits, monthly board reports, utility analyses, and year-end projections.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Prepares monthly, year-end projections of disbursements and resulting balances for salary, social security, retirement, and group life and health insurance accounts; determines variances by conferring with personnel staff and account managers.
• Maintains financial records, submits reimbursement requests to the State, and projects carry-over balances for programs.
• Uses financial software to prepare monthly statements, which include projections for expenditure accounts; presents and discusses the status of accounts with account managers.
• Maintains fixed asset records and reconciles financial records to actual assets on hand.
• Reconciles and posts bi-weekly payroll data to the financial system.
• Aids with preparing projections of expenditures.
• Provides counsel to LCPS staff on base budgets and fiscal areas.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in accounting, finance or related field required.
• Experience: Previous exposure to the public-school system sector with knowledge of school financing and accounting procedures preferred.
• Two years of experience with payroll/Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS)/Oracle preferred.
• Licenses and Certifications: None required.
• Knowledge, Skills And Abilities: Knowledge of GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) and the practical application; Ability to prepare complex accounting reports; Analyze and evaluate accounting concerns; Produce data and recommend improved procedures; Advanced knowledge with Excel; Preferred Knowledge of VRS; Ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
• Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. The employee must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. The employee must possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies. Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Reports To

Accounting Supervisor

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Schedule

Not specified

Pay

Band 10 Salary Scale: https://www.lcps.org/compensation

Benefits

Not specified

Remote Work Eligible

Partial

Collective Bargaining Unit

Non-Certified