Grants Accountant; Senior

Position Summary: Responsible for applying accounting principles and procedures to analyze financial information and to prepare accurate and timely financial reports. Key responsibilities involve adhering to federal, state, and other agency guidelines, assisting with grant applications and audits, and managing the financial close-out of grants.

• Budget Management: Create, develop, and oversee detailed budgets for grant-funded projects, ensuring alignment with grant guidelines and restrictions
• Expenditure Tracking: Monitor grant-related expenditure, ensuring proper coding, documentation, and allocation to appropriate accounts along with timely collection of receivables
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and submit timely and accurate financial reports to grantors and other stakeholders, detailing fund utilization and progress.
• Compliance & Reconciliation: Ensure all financial activities comply with federal, state, and institutional policies and regulations, performing periodic reconciliations of grant accounts to identify and correct discrepancies
• Audit Support: Assist with grant audits by providing necessary financial documentation and explanations to auditors.
• Record Keeping
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  Maintain comprehensive financial records, including invoices, receipts, and other relevant documents related to grant-funded projects
• Grant Close-Out: Oversee the financial close-out process for grants, filing final expenditure reports and ensuring all financial obligations are met

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in finance, accounting, or business
• Experience working in nonprofit environment required
• Experience with A-133 audits required
• 5 – 7 years of experience performing similar duties
• 3 – 5 years grant reporting experience
• 3 years supervisory experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with Financial Edge software a plus
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with strong interpersonal skills

Skills/Abilities

• Experience with A-133 audits required
• 5 – 7 years of experience performing similar duties
• 3 – 5 years grant reporting experience
• 3 years supervisory experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with Financial Edge software a plus
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with strong interpersonal skills

Core Competencies

• Continuous improvement-minded:
  Takes initiative to identify and execute strategies and processes to continuously improve one’s leadership to strengthen organization’s overall impact.
• Develops and motivates others:
  Motivates others and supports their development through strong coaching and mentoring. Effectively stewards self and others through both small and large scale change.
• External representation and relationship building:
  Represents the organization among external stakeholders, and builds strong, trusting relationships with stakeholders
• Leads with vision:
  Has an inspiring vision for the future of the organization, beyond the status quo, and communicates it effectively; leads with courage and willingness to take risks in service of impact
• Manages with data:
  Understands data; analyzes data and identifies insights and implications
• Strategic thinking and resource management:
  Considers the future of the organization proactively and responsively; weighs diverse inputs to inform strategies; identifies innovative opportunities when relevant; makes and communicates decisions that effectively balance tradeoffs between financial sustainability and impact
• Team building:
  Builds strong relationships with teams and colleagues; fosters effective teams and collaborative interactions

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

All employees are expected to report to a Youth Guidance office or designated partner site on a regular and ongoing basis.

Hybrid Work Arrangement: A schedule that includes both on-site and remote workdays, as approved by the employee’s manager and based on role requirements.