About Fordham:

Department: Accounting Services

Campus: Rose Hill (RH) - Bronx

Position Summary:

Essential Functions:

• Perform tasks including grant budget setup provisions, the initiation, preparations and delivery of all grant fiscal reports (interim and final) and billing, tracking and recording of receipt of funding and receivables (aging and uncollectable), collecting and drawing down accounts receivables, preparing close-out documents and various other required tasks.
• Provide institutional oversight by monitoring all University grant activity (i.e. reviewing expenditures and cost-transfers for allowability, allocability, reasonableness), and appropriate recording of expenses to sponsored projects and the general ledger in order to ensure compliance with generally acceptable accounting principles (GAAP) and sponsor reporting requirements.
• Conduct the University's effort certification process, equipment inventory counts, sub recipient monitoring, and other required controls, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Evaluate post-award grant processes and systems, and lead initiatives where re-engineering is relevant, including thinking outside the box and continually seeking ways to improve processes, procedures, internal controls to the establishment of best practices.
• Develop and maintain fiscal post-award grants policy and procedures.
• Serve as expert on Uniform Guidance and other regulatory rules and apply expert knowledge and interpretation of regulatory provisions to all facets of fiscal post-award grant administration, ensuring University compliance
• Promote and maintain excellent relationships with faculty, administrative staff, and Office of Sponsored Programs, including providing outstanding and efficient customer service.
• Respond to external and internal requests.
• Prepare the annual Schedule of Federal Awards and participate in University fiscal year audit, ensuring that comprehensive and well-organized documentation is readily available to support all requests.
• Design and deliver training, guidance and communications to Principal Investigators and fiscal administrators, regarding best practices, University policy and procedures, funding agency rules and regulations, and other fiscal post award activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• Grant agency experience, public accounting experience
• Extensive knowledge, minimum of 2-3 years of demonstrated expertise in federal and state grants, specifically Uniform Guidance, grant accounting, and/or all other facets of post-award fiscal grant administration.
• Quantitative financial analysis skills, developing data queries, data warehouse extractions and embraces digitalization/automation.
• Experience with financial systems, Banner, TM1, Blackboard Analytics and Hyland desirable.
• Extensive experience in MS Office, particularly Excel skills
• Ability to manage projects, adapt, be receptive to new ideas and able to work overtime when necessary.
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and solve problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified grants management specialist

Minimum Salary: $80,000

Maximum Salary: $90,000

About Fordham University

Fordham Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its 9 colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United kingdom.

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