Senior Grant Accountant (Buffalo Promise Neighborhood) – Hybrid Buffalo

Who We Are:

Buffalo Promise Neighborhood (BPN) is a dynamic, integrated team of engaged professionals — an extension of M&T Bank’s longstanding dedication to strengthening our community — focused on revitalization through education. Our mission is to provide education, resources, and connections to empower our students and their families to succeed. We are part of M&T Bank’s 30-year partnership with Westminster Community Charter School, proudly providing resources to ensure students receive a rigorous and holistic education and a safe and caring learning environment so that every child can grow to meet their full potential.

We’re seeking a detail-oriented and mission-driven Senior Grant Accountant to manage financial operations for Westminster Community Charter School and Buffalo Promise Neighborhood. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex financial challenges, and is passionate about education and community impact.

Serves as accountant for Buffalo Promise Neighborhood and provide accounting & payroll support for Westminster Community Charter School. Performs financial and accounting functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, grant accounting and reporting, retirement plan reporting, budgeting, forecasting, tax and audit preparation, board and financial reporting and other ad hoc financial analysis.

• Responsible for tracking and reporting complex allocations across multiple programs, projects, and reporting periods. Perform daily, monthly, quarterly and annual fund accounting and reporting procedures.
• Work on the accounting team responsible for Westminster Community Charter School’s payroll administration. This includes biweekly processing, maintaining personnel payroll records within payroll system, ensuring payroll system functionality for compliance with CBA's, governance and retirement reporting.
• Journal entries and cash reconciliations.
• Develops budgets, forecasts and cash-flow reports. Monitors expenses related to the segregated funds within each entity supported. Tracks allocations for pledges and services provided in-kind to Buffalo Promise Neighborhood and Westminster Community Charter School.
• Responsible for problem resolution and data interpretation, perform variance analysis and ensures timely submission of reports.
• Prepare monthly financial statements for board meetings and management presentations.
• Alert Senior Management of potential shortfalls and other fiscal issues.
• Prepares, analyzes and reviews financial, tax and regulatory information. Supports outside audit and tax preparation work.
• Serve as a primary contact for grant administration financial reporting and any closeout functions.
• Creates and analyzes financial reports, monitors grant budgets and develops efficient accounting procedures in accordance with applicable law.
• Ensures adherence to guidelines and policies and that grant funds are expended in compliance with federal, state, and local grantor agency regulations.
• Performs technical research using multiple sources of information and suggests insightful conclusions.
• Provides information to Senior Management, auditors and other interested parties while ensuring the quality of data being requested.
• Adheres to financial controls.
• Participates in special projects and cross-functional initiatives. Interacts with school and BPN personnel to communicate results/changes.
• Ensures success through shared responsibility of team workload to achieve department/project objectives (volume, quality, timeliness and end results).
• Understand, adhere, and contribute to improvement/timeliness of deliverables and process efficiency.
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (preferred), or Business Management/Analytics/Administration, or equivalent work…