Program and Finance Manager
Position Details
Brief Position Overview
The Fiscal Administrator is uniquely responsible for developing and maintaining an advanced accounting management structure to accommodate and support the specific needs of the Montana NSF EPSCoR program. This program is a five-year grant totaling $20M in federal funding, plus $4M in cost match, for a combined total of $24M in federal and state funding.
Position Number 4C7139
Classification Title Finance Professional
Working Title Program and Finance Manager
Department NSF EPSCOR
Division Office of Research and Economic Development
Appointment Type Professional
Contract Term Fiscal Year
Semester
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FLSA Exempt
Union Affiliation Exempt from Collective Bargaining
FTE 1.0
Benefits Eligible
Eligible
Salary $70,000 - $80,000 annually, commensurate with experience, education, and qualifications
Contract Type LOA
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Recruitment Type Open
Duties and Responsibilities
- Financial Management (50%)
- Participates in programmatic decision-making procedures, including planning, organizing, and coordinating the execution of federal and state mandates for grant goals and objectives.
- Develops systems and procedures to ensure smooth operation of administrative and financial components in an ever-changing federal, state, and university fiscal environment.
- Manages budget development and administration, including re-budgetary authority within programmatic goals and objectives; sets up new project-year indices upon receipt of annual funding.
- Maintains monthly expenditure spreadsheets, reconciling and verifying for accuracy and compliance.
- Prepares highly detailed and accurate financial and budgetary reports for use by program directors and federal and state agencies.
- Solves fiscal problems both internally and externally, working with MUS departments and outside agencies at the state and federal levels; handles audit issues, exceptions, and questionable costs.
- Provides oversight of payroll practices involved in the project.
- Solves fiscal problems both internally and externally, working with MUS departments and outside agencies at the state and federal levels; handles audit issues, exceptions, and questionable costs.
- Prepares highly detailed and accurate financial and budgetary reports for use by program directors and federal and state agencies.
- Maintains monthly expenditure spreadsheets, reconciling and verifying for accuracy and compliance.
- Manages budget development and administration, including re-budgetary authority within programmatic goals and objectives; sets up new project-year indices upon receipt of annual funding.
- Develops systems and procedures to ensure smooth operation of administrative and financial components in an ever-changing federal, state, and university fiscal environment.
- Participates in programmatic decision-making procedures, including planning, organizing, and coordinating the execution of federal and state mandates for grant goals and objectives.