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Post-Award Sponsored Programs, Grants & Contracts Accountant II (Inst)

Job Group: Sponsored Programs, Grants, and Contracts
Job Subgroup: Sponsored Programs, Grants, and Contract Administration (Post-Award)
Salary Range (Annual): 24: $63,800-130,240
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: SC051
  • Job Summary:
    Provides management and oversight of sponsored program financial administration. Prepares and submits complex reconciliations, reports, and invoices. Collaborates with campus representatives to monitor, analyze, and reconcile financial data for sponsored programs. Interacts directly with project sponsors related to financial reporting, invoicing, payments, and audits on behalf of the university to ensure compliance. Oversees aspects of campus-wide post award initiatives as a subject matter expert and delivers training to others. Leads team in manager's absence.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Analyzes, interprets, and processes complex extramural award actions to ensure financial requirements per federal, state, university, and sponsor regulations are followed on behalf of the institution
    • Audits and approves financial transactions such as subaward invoices, PI transfers, refunds, payments, cost transfers and fiscal closeout of awards and projects
    • Serves as subject matter experts to leadership, staff, and institutional stakeholders regarding sponsored programs accounting and financial operations, policies, and procedures
    • Leads and executes the development, organization, preparation, and updating of complex financial data, journals, accounts, ledgers, reconciliations, reports, and invoices for various financial needs within the enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial system for sponsored programs
    • Maintains Sponsored Programs automated financial systems, and develops, and documents controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity
    • Leads or assists with the implementation of campus-wide financial administration initiatives, process improvements, programs, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable sponsored programs rules and regulations
  • Education:
    Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    Yes
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    No
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    24: $63,800-130,240
  • Job Code:
    SC051: Post-Award Sponsored Programs, Grants & Contracts Accountant II (Inst)
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=SC051

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