Grant and Contract Administrator II

Account Maintenance: Setup and monitor accounts for all grants. Maintain account-specific notes and internal spreadsheets. Verify proper award documents and budgets are saved. Assist with account template improvements. Financial Account Balance Projections: Respond to account balance inquiries. Complete in-depth analysis of posted expenses and ensure the expenses are allowed. Investigate open encumbrances and available balances and manually track pending charges (not yet inputted in the system). Communicate hiring/purchasing options to faculty based on expense forecasts. Financial System Monitoring: Update and maintain Position Distributions, complete Salary Transfers, and process External Awards and Financial Aide requests. Input Capital Requisitions and complete General Expense Corrections. Review Transaction Detail reports and communicate concerns or updates to faculty regarding specific expenses. Financial Compliance and Training: Assist with internal trainings, team workshops, and streamlining reporting mechanisms and templates to aid in Financial reporting (EBC-N/Sponsored Projects) and Technical/Progress reporting. Provide policy and procedural information to faculty regarding any applicable university, state, local government, or federal partner. Financial Reporting: Review auto-generated reports with faculty on monthly and/or quarterly basis. Assist with financial reports that are due to internal or external partners. Provide manually-created reports which fall outside the UA Analytics tools currently in place. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Ability to develop comprehensive budgets using Excel and auto-generated financial reports. Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, principles and procedures, to include uniform guidance. Skill in preparing detailed reports on a timely basis. Ability to work independently and collaboratively.