Grants Finance Specialist
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Full time, Exempt position: Monday-Friday, 9am - 5pm. Occasional weekend or evening hours may be assigned as needed.
Salary Range:
- 1-2 years experience: $42,000 - $45,000
- 2-3 years experience: $45,000 - $50,000
- 4+ years experience: $50,000 - $63,000
Job Summary
The Grants Finance Specialist performs a wide range of contract/grant administration functions to assist the Executive Director, Financial Director and Programs Manager in all phases of the financial management process of a variety of federal, state and private grants and programmatic budgets.
Key Accountabilities
- Coordinate financial and grants management activities for a variety of federal, state and private grants received by the agency
- Serve as liaison with Program Managers and Coordinators for efficient management of grant finances across multiple program areas
- Monitor and review expenditures for allowability, allocability, and reasonableness to ensure compliance with funder requirements and policies
- Update internal policies and procedures as grant terms or regulations change or as new grants are received or expire
- Prepare internal and external financial reports, budget revisions, and budget analyses
- Ensure appropriate rates of spending of grant awards and communicate needed changes
- Determine allocation of staff time and indirect costs corresponding to grant funding and ensure accurate documentation
- Assist management team and Program Coordinators in solving complex accounting and financial problems
- Monitor for federal regulation compliance and/or other funder policy/procedure compliance
- Monitor fiscal compliance by subcontractors and sub-recipients
- Ensure internal controls of obligations of federal funds, maintain good working relationships with federal partners and federal auditors, provide documentation as well as answer questions related to grants
- Support price analysis, negotiation, and the appropriate use of funds in grant awards
- Create and maintain audit files for program compliance and validate Coordinators’ audit files
- Execute final review of awards and complete close-out documents
- Perform duties independently and support Program and Grant Coordinators to distribute and manage a high volume of workload
- May provide training and/or direction to lower-level staff
- May lead projects of moderate scope and complexity
- Respond to a broad range of inquiries and requests
- Act as a representative of the ACCC in public forums in a positive, knowledgeable, and professional manner
Qualifications
- Post-high school education in any of the following areas: accounting, finance, public or business administration, statistics, mathematics, computer science, or related areas
- Experience in any of the areas above including responsibility for any of the following functions:
- Fiscal or accounting systems analysis
- Budget development, analysis, and administration
- Cost/benefit accounting and/or analysis
- Design and/or development of accounting control and reporting systems
- Financial auditing
- Fiscal records, management; or related areas
- Post-award grant management
- Knowledgeable of Federal grants laws, regulations, and policies and GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
- Ability to build grant processes and procedures to improve budget control and reporting systems
- Experience in grant financial analysis and ability to provide technical assistance and recommendations to meet the intent of a grant
- Ability to train entry level staff on budget preparation and analysis, reimbursement request procedures, and other grant finance tasks
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive relationships
- Detail oriented and good at execution
- Comfortable in a multicultural workplace and working with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences
- Comfortable with ambiguity and taking initiative with new challenges in an often fast-paced work environment
Benefits
- Monthly accruing health and wellness reimbursement
- SIMPLE IRA retirement plan, 2% employer contribution after 1 year
- 16 paid holidays, including 3 floating personal holidays
- Infant-at-Work Program
- Vacation Time: 80 hours per year in first year of employment
- Sick Leave, Bereavement Leave, and Civic Leave
- Paid Family Leave after 1 year
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- A diverse and inclusive workplace
