Grants Accountant (Hybrid)
Company: Mary's Place Seattle
Location: Seattle
Posted on: November 7, 2024
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Job Description:
Description:The Grants Accountant is a critical position to
provide budgetary and financial management of the accounting for
grants and contributes to accuracy, timeliness, compliance, and
cross-functional collaboration functions. The Grants Accountant
provides expertise in financial and reporting requirements and
shall develop strong cross-organizational relationships and systems
with key partners on the Programs, Operations and Development
teams. The Grants Accountant supports all departments in the
successful set-up, implementation, invoicing and reporting for
grants.
The Grants Accountant is experienced at all government levels of
funding requirements and compliance, policy development and
implementation. This position is responsible for establishing the
restricted codes, monitoring, tracking, and reporting all grant
activity.
The Grants Accountant actively engages in Mary's Place racial
equity work - striving for equitable outcomes and taking
responsibility for creating, maintaining, and affirming communities
for people of color, immigrants and refugees, trans and
gender-non-conforming people, and other populations who routinely
encounter systemic oppressions.
This is a full-time, salaried exempt position, with flexibility to
work extended hours to meet the demands of the position, including
the ability to work evening and weekend hours as needed. The
position is hybrid, with an in-office location at our
administrative offices ("the Hub") in South Lake Union. A flexible
work schedule may be available, provided that performance
requirements are met.
This is full-time, non-exempt, position working a daytime schedule,
with flexibility to work some evenings, weekends, and holidays as
necessary. The yearly salary for this position is $80 - $85K DOE.
The Grants Accountant reports directly to the Controller. This
position does not supervise other staff.
Key Responsibilities - Review grant awards and contracts to
understand compliance requirements and identify required reports
and other deliverables. - Collaborate with the Development Team to
ensure Program Directors and their teams understand and comply with
funders' terms and conditions as set out in grant agreements. -
Support the development of system set-up, restricted coding,
processes and other controls that ensure compliance with grant
restrictions, including data collection time keeping requirements,
performance monitoring, procurement processes, staffing
allocations, or other needs. - Review subaward and partner
contracts to ensure fiscal monitoring of subrecipient. - Complete
financial grant reporting requirements and record grant revenue to
financial management system (FMS). - Report outstanding grant
receivables on a monthly and reconcile grant activity in the FMS to
the donor database and client database - Participate in periodic
discussions on grant progress, challenges, and other questions or
concerns. - Collaborate with Development and Program team in
preparing the budget for individual grants. - Review grant
expenditures for compliance with donor regulations or terms.
Support Program teams to monitor budget, burndown plans, timesheets
and adjust spending as needed to ensure good stewardship of funds.
- Review monthly grant transaction details for disallowable
expenses and reallocate expenses accordingly prior to monthly
financial reporting for grants. - Collaborate with the Development
and Program teams for budget adjustments or contract amendments as
needed. - Manage the preparation, review, and coordination of
grant-related audit work, including the annual Single Audit
requirement for federal grants as well as city and county
monitoring processes. - Provide guidance on compliance with federal
and other government grant regulations. - Actively engage in Mary's
Place racial equity work; strive for racially equitable outcomes;
take responsibility for creating and maintaining affirming
communities for people of color, immigrants and refugees, trans and
gender-non-conforming folks, and other populations who routinely
encounter systemic oppressions - Assist with other fundraising
projects as requested
Requirements:Skills/Qualifications Required - Bachelor's degree, or
equivalent experience - 3-5 years of relevant experience in Finance
and Accounting for Grants with proven record accounting for
government grants - Understanding of local, state, and federal
government grant sources - Working knowledge of Uniform Guidance of
Federal Awards - Experience with financial management of grants and
contracts - Excellent writing, analytical, and research skills -
Ability to meet deadlines - Proficiency with Microsoft Office
products, especially Microsoft Excel, required - Clear desire to
embrace and align with Mary's Place's mission of empowering
homeless women, children, and families to reclaim their lives -
Exhibits compassion and empathy; works well with people from all
ethnic, social, economic and sexual orientation backgrounds. -
Successfully manages projects involving multiple stakeholders,
participants, and deliverables - Able to build relationships and
effectively communicate with internal partners across a variety of
functions and levels. - High level of personal accountability,
reliability, and trustworthiness. - Exceptional time management and
organizational skills - Proven ability to multitask, set
priorities, and meet deadlines. - Ability to work successfully in a
collaborative, team-oriented organization. - Highly motivated,
resourceful, flexible, and possesses a positive attitude. -
Attention to detail, interacting with others in-person and through
email, using critical thinking skills to create and edit documents,
and listen and participate verbally at meetings - Ability to travel
between Mary's Place sites, programs, and meetings outside the
office, and around the county as needed
Physical Requirements - The physical demands described here are
representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. - Ability
to converse with and listen to people in many different settings -
Ability to use a computer and telephone, as well as other standard
office equipment - Frequently required to stand, walk, use fingers,
hands, and arms - Ability to occasionally push, pull, lift, and/or
carry supplies up to 25 pounds - Work takes place in a social
services environment where long periods of sitting, working on a
computer, walking to various work areas, going up and down stairs,
and standing are required - Travel to program sites and meetings
outside the site and around the county are necessary - Ability to
work in an environment where there may be animals present,
including dogs
In compliance with the ADA Amendment Act, should you have a
disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation
with the job application process, please contact the Human
Resources department.
Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties
of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person
with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the
job or work environment in order to meet the physical requirements
of the position. Mary's Place will attempt to satisfy requests as
long as the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue
hardship to Mary's Place would result.
Details Mary's Place offers the following benefits to full-time
staff:
Compensation details: 80000-85000 Yearly Salary
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