Grant Accountant
Creative Financial Staffing LLC
This is a Full-time position in South Bend, IN posted December 3, 2021.
As part of a diverse community of faculty and staff who represent many faith systems and worldviews, our client seeks a Grant Accountant. The grant accountant will perform any combination of duties involving: routine calculating, posting, monitoring, reconciling, processing and verifying to obtain or record financial data for use in maintaining the University’s accounting records.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform grant-related post-award functions
- Set up of project accounting including budget and expenses
- Provide revenue and expense analysis
- Periodic invoicing and drawdowns for specific grants
- Financial reporting
- Payroll labor distribution changes
- Reconciliations of grants
- Re-budgeting of grants as needed
- Perform grant closeout functions required by Grants and Contracts
- Administration and sponsors including reconciliations, financial status reports, final invoices, purchase order liquidations, zeroing out budgets, and final reporting; review general ledger transactions to ensure accuracy and complete journal entries.
- Assists with time and effort reporting system, ensuring it is complete and in compliance with applicable regulations;
- Maintain regular communications with the department; communicate with fiscal contacts at funding source for problem resolution and information gathering
- Prepare routine entries and post financial transactions; reconcile entries and internal ledgers to financial reporting system reports
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Accounting from four-year college or university and 2 to 4 years general accounting experience.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as legal requirements, grant applications, college policies and procedures, and manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Experience with Ellucian Software a plus.
