Senior Grant Accountant

Job Title:

Senior Accountant/Sr Grant Accountant ($85,000 - $95,000)
Department:
Finance

Reports To:

Vice President of FinanceFLSA Status:
Exempt

Position Summary:

The Senior Accountant/Sr Grant Accountant – Grant Reporting is responsible for overseeing all grant-related financial activities, including reporting, compliance,reconciliations, and funding coordination. This role ensures accuracy of grant financials,supports program teams, and maintains compliance with funding requirements while serving asa key financial liaison across departments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Prepare and submit grant financial reports in accordance with funder requirements.
• Prepare internal grant financials and distribute to program leads for review.
• Review and process corrections submitted by departments to ensure accuracy of grant-related transactions.
• Ensure compliance with all grant reporting guidelines and timelines.
• Assist Grant Manager with financial grant reporting for entities.

• Write small grants for organization for up to $50,000
• Provide Grant Manager with financial information for all grant applications

• Ensure all disbursements related to internal grants are properly approved and supported prior to processing.

• Compile date for reimbursable grants and submit to Awarding Agency.
• Ensure all invoice request for reimbursement are recorded in CRM and general ledger.

• Reconcile financial ledger to subsidiary ledger for reimbursable grants.

• Ensure adequate funding availability for grant and operational expenses.
• Request quarterly reports from Community Investment Coordinator received from grant recipients to review for budget monitoring and audit compliance.

• Perform quarterly financial audit site visits to grant recipients.
• Perform annual audits of all grantees and community partners.
• Assist in preparation of grant-related audit schedules
• Review and track contracts for Community Investment partners.
• Provide supporting documentation for grant compliance and reporting
• Work directly with auditors on grant-specific inquiries
• Ensure all grant transactions are properly supported and reconciled
• Performs quarterly audit of campaign envelopes
• Assist with the annual audit.

• Serve as backup to the Senior Accountant– Financial Reporting
• Collaborate with finance and program teams to improve processes and financial accuracy.

Perform other duties as assigned to support Finance Department operations.

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

Achievement Focus
- Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles. Measures self against standard of excellence. Recognizes and acts on opportunities. Sets and achieves challenging goals. Takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.

Adaptability
- Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles. Measures self against standard of excellence. Recognizes and acts on opportunities. Sets and achieves challenging goals. Takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.

Analytical
- Synthesizes complex or diverse information; collects and researches data; uses intuition and experience to complement data; designs work flows and procedures.

Business Acumen
- Understands business implications of decisions; displays orientation…