Federal Grants Staff Accountant

Project Summary

This position is for a financial analyst within a shared services office where the contractor team is integrated into the Federal client’s business area.  The financial analyst will be one of 5 staff accountants contributing to a host of tasks including financial analysis, grantee outreach and financial reporting.

Job Summary

The financial analyst supports the team’s efforts within the finance workstreams.  He/She will perform a range of staff accounting functions in support of the client program, including:

• Taking ownership of a grant portfolio conducting daily grants management financial analysis, compliance, outreach and reporting;
• Perform financial analysis to determine discrepancies and escalate compliance issues for further monitoring;
• Participating in bi-monthly closeout of grants;
• Flagging high risk grant closeouts for further escalation of monitoring;
• Conduct grantee outreach to provide training and technical assistance;
• Tracking of disbursements of grant funds proactively to avoid improper payments;
• Requirements gathering and user acceptance testing of key tools and applications;
• Supporting grant obligations reporting during the Federal end-of-year process;
• Providing insights into grantee pain points to continuously improve on grants management processes, data and reporting;
• Ad hoc portfolio data reporting, as requested.

The employee’s role includes project management competencies such as preparing and reviewing deliverables, monitoring of the project, participating in key meetings, and ensuring quality standards are met. The ideal candidate should feel comfortable interacting with the client in a professional manner on a continuous basis, performing work at the Federal client site 5 days per week during core hours of 9am – 3pm, at minimum.

Responsibilities

• 3-5 or more years professional experience in similar field
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (oral and written)
• Strong organizational skills with a high focus on detail and accuracy
• Ability to research and analyze, problem solve and offer insights and recommendations.
• Experience using Excel spreadsheets (required)
• Ability to work collaboratively with the client and other team members (Team chemistry is of great importance)
• Experience preparing short briefing documents (spreadsheets, talking points, process flows, standard operating procedures, PowerPoint slides, etc.)
• Advanced client management and customer service skills with an ability to provide exemplary training and technical assistance to the client, as required, and their customers on a daily basis

Education/Training

• Bachelor’s degree (finance, economics, business, mathematics or accounting)

Preferred

• Previous experience in Federal, state, tribal or local grants management
• Training in Federal grants management, specifically the Uniform Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200 U.S. Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards

Key Words

Federal Budget Management

Federal Financial Management

Grants Management

Financial Analysis

Business Process Re-engineering

MS Excel

Data Management/Analytics