"Senior Accountant"

Job Details

The Senior Accountant has a broad range of accounting duties related to the management of all externally sponsored grants and contracts. Reviews and approves all expenses for a grant. Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual reports for submission required by the agencies and the university as requested. Analyzes the grant at the end of the period of performance and completes the closeout of a grant. Works independently as well as interfaces effectively with the faculty, administrators, and outside agencies. Cross trained with other Senior Accountant to perform their duties during an absence.

• Reviews and approves all grant expenditures: purchase requisitions, travel expense reports, check requests, cost transfers, and labor requests. Ensures compliance and verifies adequate funds are available.
• Responsible for the closeout of a grant and submits final financial reports. Distributes 30, 60 and 90-day closing notifications. Assists PI with the process of final spending.
• Creates invoicing and draw downs on a monthly basis.
• Tracks and projects account balances and end dates by maintaining the PI Grant Summary spreadsheets for each PI. Provides balances as needed and notifies PIs when their grant is ending. Includes initiation and/or approval of budget adjustments and payroll adjustments.
• Annual reporting: Research Salary Supplement (RSS), A-133 Reporting, NSF Survey, GRUP Survey and World Ranking Report for Executive review and external submission; Monthly reporting: Backlog Report
• Updates procedures pertaining to their position. Backup for other Senior Accountant by establishing new accounts, preparing invoices, and processing payments.
• Analyzes accounting data to identify problems and then assists department administrators and Principal Investigators (PI) to resolve issues.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual reports required in the invoicing terms of the agreement.

Skill requirements include: Excellent computer skills in the use of MS Office with emphasis on Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and MS Word documents. Experience with Workday Financial Management Software is preferred.

Abilities: Ability to be precise, thorough, reliable, work independently, adapt to frequent changes in rapidly evolving research projects, and possess the abilities to reason, think logically and analyze situations to propose and implement resolutions for problems or concerns.

Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills necessary. Outstanding oral and written communication skills required with demonstrated proficiency in making presentations to both internal and external audiences.

Ability to read and interpret documents including contracts, compliance requirement documents, federal laws and guidelines, solicitations, non-disclosure documents, teaming agreements, requests for proposals, and policies and procedures manuals.

Ability to assist with preparing budgets, reconciliations, financial reports, and project closeouts as required.

Must have exceptionally strong communication skills and ability to effectively and clearly answer inquiries from team members, external partners.

Experience working in a fast paced and multi-tasking environment