Manager, Grants Accounting, 42860

Lone Star College-System Office
Manager, Grants Accounting, 42860
Position Summary: The Manager, Grants Accounting develops, manages, and ensures compliance of Lone Star College's post-award policies and procedures. The manager ensures LSC's stewardship of monetary grant awards for fully substantiated allowable expenditures and submits accurate and timely financial expenditure reports to grantor agencies for federal, state, and local grant awards. Manages a team of accountants and actively collaborates with program staff, faculty, deans, directors, and other stakeholders within LSC.
Job Functions:

1. Identify, interpret, and disseminate federal, state, and local agency regulatory compliance requirements to LSC personnel involved in grant funding; communicate the effect of grantor rules on financial operations and procedures and provide solutions for practical implementation and institutional compliance
2. Oversee and evaluate complex and unique grant award contracts and subcontracts; establish effective financial expenditure, grants billing and reporting processes within LSC
3. Assist and train teams throughout the grant award life cycle; collaborate with LSC grant program teams to design, monitor and control grant budgets that are accurate and compliant
4. Act as liaison between program and support staff, compliance and financial personnel, funding agencies and LSC executive and managerial staff
5. Monitor accuracy and completeness of cash draws and financial expenditure submissions.
6. Provide subject matter expertise to financial teams and customized queries and reports to achieve consistency of data analysis, compliance assurance and recovery of "allowable" grant costs to LSC
7. Direct and approve LSC's Indirect Cost Rate Proposal computations for restricted funds and submit proposals to cognizant agencies for negotiation and approval
8. Develop and track metrics and key performance indicators for LSC's post-award financial efforts
9. Oversee and lead LSC's participation and schedule/document preparation/production related to LSC's external audits and internal grant reviews; implement and monitor related corrective action plans
10. Prepare grant financial schedules and footnotes for LSC's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR)
11. Review and approve balance sheet account reconciliations and prepare journal entries as needed
12. Manage the day-to-day operations of the grants accounting group and ensure timely task completion in accordance with staffing levels
13. Hire, train, evaluate and manage assigned financial staff
14. Responsible for other reasonable, related duties as assigned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
 
Salary: Hiring salary range is $67,746 - $77,908
Commensurate with education, qualifications and experience
Required:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or a related field
• Experience must include at least 5 years of experience in grant, contract administration, accounting, or business administration
• Experience must include at least 3 years in a supervisory level position
• Experience working with external auditors

 
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