Adams 12 Five Star Schools Looking for Grant Accountant at United States, Colorado, Thornton Full Time

SUMMARY: Maintain the grant accounting and reporting for the District. Coordinates and pursues the cooperation of the various departments and outside entities involved in the District’s federal, state, and private financial assistance programs by encouraging and monitoring the proper accounting for and reporting of such programs. Support and assist with the proper recording and reporting of the other general accounting activities. Develop and promote good community relations among various community and school clientele.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Tasks Descriptions
1. Maintain the District’s Grants within the financial system to ensure the proper accounting for and reporting of Grants, including the monitoring and assistance in the tracking, reporting, and subsequent closing of multiple year grants. Prepare/review all accounting entries and budget transfers related to grants for proper coding, allowability and reasonableness within the scope of the grant. Prepare/review and submit request for funds for all grants. Ensure all requested revenue is received and recorded appropriately.
2. Coordinate, review and help prepare grant budget applications for all grants within the District, working directly with Learning Services and other sources. Ensure proper account/budget coding, as well as compliance with District, State and Federal grant regulations. Ensure budget revisions are submitted in a timely manner.
3. Develop and maintain appropriate tracking devices (i.e. spreadsheets) to assist in the monitoring and reporting of grant accounting activities. Perform monthly reconciliation on grant accounts, ensuring all transactions post to the general ledger. Work with and meet regularly with grant coordinators to review their spending and recommend any budget revisions as needed.
4. Develop an expertise in the financial and accounting compliance aspects of Federal, State, and Private financial assistance programs. Attend all required and relevant fiscal training related to grants and communicates any changes with appropriate District personnel. Propose/write/maintain policies and procedures related to all District grants based on the knowledge gained. Work with, train, and educate all District personnel on grant policies, federal regulations and District policies to ensure compliance. Assist in interpreting federal requirements and granting agency guidelines.
5. Analyze detail, compiles data for selected federal, state, and private programs and provides regularly scheduled reports. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports for other federal programs. Monitor the timely filing of proper reports to appropriate agencies.
6. Participate in formulating budgets for the Grants programs, checking details and calculating account totals. Assist in forecasting remaining Grant balances for District administration and Grant personnel.
7. Communicate verbally and in writing, and provides financial analysis to district decision makers regarding the Grant fund. Maintain a staff webpage for grants. Perform system testing for patches and/or upgrades.
8. Prepare and reconcile the Schedule of Federal Awards (SEFA). Interact with outside auditors and provide information, including work papers, schedules and access to accounting records for federal, state, and local grants as required. Research, respond and clarify question from auditors and internal stakeholders.
9. Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
* Bachelor’s degree, with a major or minor, in the field of accounting, finance, or related business field required. An Associate’s Degree in the field of accounting, finance, or related business field and three (3) additional years of experience may be substituted for this requirement.
* Minimum of three (3) years of experience in a school district and/or accounting required. Experience within a governmental entity, public accounting firm, or similar entity in an accounting/financial capacity is highly preferred.
* School district experience preferred.
* Preferred experience with federal grants.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:
* Criminal background check required for hire.

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APPLICATION INFORMATION:
All applicants (current district employees and external applicants) should list any and all work experience, including current district experience, when completing the employment application. Please include job titles and duties that you held while doing that job. Since the Human Resource department uses the application to screen for minimum qualifications required for each job, it is important to have a complete application so you will be considered for the position you are applying for.

SALARY INFORMATION:
The salary listed is for full time positions (1.0 FTE). This salary will be adjusted, as needed, based upon the FTE. Administrative employees’ salary will be commensurate on the employees’ education and/or work experience. For additional information, please review our or review our .

BENEFITS INFORMATION:
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).
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Rev 12/22