Compliance Supervisor

Position Summary

This position involves the accurate and timely completion of invoicing or awarding pursuant with our external sponsors' contracts, grants, and agreements. The position will interpret award documents, establish, and maintain documents/files pertaining to post‑award administration. This position will effectively work and communicate with personnel within the University, as well as federal, state, local, and other non‑profit sponsors. Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

This position involves a high level of analytical skills and the knowledge to utilize data tables and queries. This position involves consistent demonstration of independently managing work queue, honoring deadlines and performance metric expectations, resolving common issues, and consistently demonstrating SPA Customer Service Standards. This position will manage our most complicated sponsors, invoices/awards, and internal/external authorities. Awarders will process a heavy load of the more complex letter of credits.

Invoicers will process sub‑award payments requests. Due to the breadth of knowledge and experience, this position will rarely need assistance with our most complicated sponsors/issues. This position will supervise, mentor and train other SPA Team Members.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent and 8 years of professional experience

• Ability to create and utilize complicated spreadsheets.
• Possess knowledge of accounting principles.
• Ability to communicate effectively and in a timely manner when assisting departmental contacts.

Sitting for extended periods of time

Monday - Friday, 8:00-5:00 pm with possible flex schedule

• Compliance Team Oversight (25%) – Manages overall compliance of sponsored projects, which includes assisting PIs/departments with compliance issues and assisting and training Post Award Accounting staff by providing guidance on compliance matters. Approve bi‑weekly time cards, leave requests, and complete annual performance evaluations. Other duties as assigned by Director.
• Effort Testing (25%) – Creates monthly samples for testing committed effort on sponsored projects. Downloads appropriate documentation and queries for testing sponsored project effort. Logs results and communicates with departments concerning out of compliance effort commitments.
• Awarding and Compliance Team Training and Support (20%) – Train and mentor new grants accounting specialists in the policies and procedures necessary to properly account for and report sponsored agreement transactions.
• Awarding (10%) – Read, interpret, and check for completeness of award documents and note special requirements. Ensure proper set up of awards and chart strings in Financial Management System based on sponsor requirements. Identify invoicing and financial reporting requirements and notate in the Grants Portal.
• Letters of Credit (10%) – Manage and maintain various letters of credit with Federal agencies. Responsible for calculating and reconciling amounts to be drawn and reporting of expenditures incurred for sponsored projects according to federal guidelines. Prepare related FFR / SF‑425 reports to meet sponsor requirements and reconcile amounts to the financial statements.
• Quality Assurance and ALN Testing (5%) – Manages a portion of a monthly list of queries/reports to ensure data integrity and completion of various functions. Also, downloads queries reviewing and testing for Assistance Listing Number.
• Department Liaison and Sponsored Project Support (5%) – Serve as a liaison with certain academic departments, effectively communicating contract and grant requirements as necessary, responding to department contact questions, and attaining assistance from the department contacts as needed.

The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or veteran status or other protected status. Persons needing accommodations or assistance with the accessibility of materials related to this search are encouraged to contact Central HR (hrweb).