Post Award Grant Accountant
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The Post-Award Grant Accountant will serve as the primary contact for post-award projects for assigned departments, handling budget monitoring, preparation, and fiscal reporting. This role ensures compliance for local, state, and federally funded sponsored projects, working with College Business Managers and HR Liaisons on grant-related financial and personnel matters.
Responsibilities
- Advise Principal Investigators (PI) on current balances, expenditure projections, and compliance corrections
- Prepare budget amendments and internal budget revisions, and set up/track cost share commitments
- Review HR changes and summer salary requests for personnel paid from grant funds to ensure fund availability
- Monitor graduate assistant differential (GAD) payments
- Collaborate with college business office & Grants and Contracts Administration (GCA) to ensure budgeting & financial compliance
- Provide primary assistance to PIs to successfully manage sponsored research grants from set up to closeout
- Communicate with PI, departmental personnel, college personnel, GCA, and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)
- Approve grant transactions in BuyWays and Concur and resolve journal and payroll errors
- Ensure project close out in a timely manner and conduct regular meetings with assigned business centers
- Facilitate with PI to submit no cost extension requests via GCA
- Stay up to date on Federal, State, and University regulations concerning research-related issues
- Work with departments to ensure files are audit-ready and communicate with GCA regarding expenditures requiring sponsor approval
- Process corrections for unallowable expenditures and assist with monthly audits as needed
- Prepare special reports for department chairs, CBSHS Business Office, faculty, sponsors, and GCA
- Perform monthly grant reconciliation and other ad-hoc duties as requested
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 1+ years of work experience
- Firm working knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures related to grants accounting
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 1+ years of work experience