Senior Grant Accountant, Financial Services at RWJBarnabas Health – Oceanport, New Jersey

Job Overview:

The senior accountant will analyze financial data and be a business partner who will help others understand financial information.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• A minimum of 4 or more years of accounting experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Prior experience with PeopleSoft Financial and budget software

Preferred:

• Prior hospital or healthcare experience a plus.
• Prior grant accounting or auditing experience is a plus.

Scheduling Requirements:

• Full-time
• Day

Essential Functions:

• Maintains ledger accounts with a primary focus on pre- and post- award grant accounting for Federal and State of New Jersey awarded grants.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with funders’ administrative guidelines, timely receipt of revenue, accurate submission of financial reports, single audit processes and orderly closure of projects.
• Monitor and track the status of grant programs through its program life cycle.
• Work with grant managers and advise management on preparing grant budgets for proposals.
• Monitor expenses for allowable uses of grant funds.
• Creates monthly journal entries and prepares monthly and daily reconciliations.
• Maintains accurate detail in support of the balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other documents that project the organization's and grant financial position.
• Prepares and/or reviews assigned areas of annual budget, including the capital budget, portions of the operating budget, analysis of the budget, and the budget package in accordance with due dates.
• Written and verbal communication is done in a manner that is clear, concise, timely, and accurately conveys the message.
• Ensures that all reports generated provide meaningful and timely information.
• Interacts with internal and external auditors as necessary.
• Identifies accounting problems and internal control weaknesses, researches possible solutions and presents recommendations and conclusions to Management for further evaluation.
• Work independently, with broadly defined work objectives, with limited supervision and review of the overall result.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.