Grant Accountant - Remote

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Grant Accountant

Job Summary: Prepare and manage budgets for assigned programs. Maintain fiscal records
using established bookkeeping practices, procedures, and precedents. Prepare financial
statements and reports. Excellent organizational skills and accuracy are important qualifications
for this position, as well as good customer relations and the ability to communicate clearly. The
ideal candidate for this position is a skilled multi-tasker, is reliable, detail oriented and is
committed to consistently meeting deadlines.

Reports to:Assistant Controller

Essential Functions and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Manage budgets of assigned programs including preparation of initial budgets and
budget modifications. Entering and maintaining them in the accounting software.

•  Produce and submit required reports to funding sources.
   Monthly vouchering of expense reports to funding sources.
   Review and approve spending requests from Program Directors.
   Process invoices for assigned programs.
   Journal entries required to perform monthly reports
   Process Merchant Statements on monthly basis
   Prepare and enter payroll journal entry every two weeks. Payroll and labor distribution
  reports to assigned programs.
   Allocation of expenses and methodology used to allocate expenses to assigned programs.
   Record NYS Unemployment and other fringe benefits to assigned programs.
   Approval of payroll changes for staff of assigned programs. Reconcile payroll changes
  with related program budgets.
   Bank statement reconciliation.
   Prepare for audits/reviews by funding sources for assigned programs
   Prepare for year-end corporate audit including preparation of assigned reconciliations.
   Preparing year-end closeouts for assigned programs.
   Prepare financial statements to funding sources of assigned programs.
   Petty Cash reconciliation.
   Digitizing documents and maintaining database.
   Monitor and maintain budget variance reports.
   Assist other fiscal staff as needed and other financial tasks as may be required by the CFO
  and Assistant Controller.
  
  Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field. Minimum of 2 years of
  experience needed. Knowledge of accounting principles and practices. Must have the ability
  to follow oral and written instructions, perform detailed work with numerical data, and
  make arithmetic computations rapidly and easily. Not-for-profit bookkeeping/fund
  accounting experience a plus. FundEz software knowledge a plus. Knowledge of Excel a must.