Grants Accountant

The Grants Accountant supports grant management efforts by providing technical accounting, budgeting, and administrative assistance. Responsibilities include establishing grant accounts; managing those accounts; analyzing, researching, and compiling financial data; providing technical assistance and oversight; and performing a variety of related administrative tasks.   Incumbents perform complex, technical grants accounting/financial work involving varying fiscal years and numerous reporting deadlines.  Incumbents must continually monitor changing program and reporting requirements for a variety of funding sources and balance the management of numerous grant financial projects and accounts.  Errors in work products may mean losing funds that were used outside parameters of guidelines/contracts or due to inattention to reporting deadlines and requirements.   This class differs from the Accountant class because of its emphasis on grant compliance with budgetary and reporting requirements.  Incumbents work in the City’s Grants Department, Economic Development Department, and Planning Department and are supervised by a division or a department head.  Bachelor’s degree from a university or college with major coursework in accounting and two (2) years of governmental accounting experience at the level of an accountant.
NOTE:   Qualifying education, training, and experience that provide the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job will be considered.