Under general supervision, prepares and administers technical accounting and budgeting records, projections, and reports; coordinates, facilitates and participates in the development and administration of major and complex capital operating budgets, grant budgets and related fund accounts for Mercer County Community; maintains and verifies financial, statistical, or other fiscal records in connection with various grants; clarifies and resolves technical and contractual issues and problems with grants, guides department staff on grant regulations and use of grant funds; performs complex, specialized grant accounting functions; identifies abuse and waste, complies with periodic financial reporting and reimbursement submittal requirements; performs sub-professional accounting support and record keeping work in the preparation, processing and maintenance of accounting, payroll and financial records for a department; and performs related duties as assigned.

The Grants, Contract & Auxiliary Accountant performs the fully-proficient professional level of accounting work that requires independent evaluation and analysis of issues and judgment to select and apply standard techniques, procedures and criteria to resolve problems and make recommendations. The Grants, Contract & Auxiliary Accountant performs a broad range of advanced professional level accounting work and may require a CPA designation. The Grants, Contract & Auxiliary Accountant serves as a subject matter expert for the College. The Grants, Contract & Auxiliary Accountant handles the most complex analysis and issues where considerable judgment, tact, discretion and initiative are required to resolve problems and make recommendations. Work may include reviewing the work of lower-level professional accounting staff; conducting training; advising on the interpretation of rules, regulations and contract language related to accounting and tax issues; requiring knowledge of General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); and may routinely lead project teams and/or staff on an ongoing basis and may supervise assigned exempt and non-exempt staff.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: includes the following:
? Monitors, reviews and approves expenditures and distribution of funds
? Plans, analyzes, edits and reconciles a variety of reports, records and documents for reasonableness and conformity with sound accounting and budget control principles and practices; maintains and updates files, databases, records and function documentation
? Designs and evaluates reporting systems
? Prepares recommendations related to account management and compliance with accounting standards
? Provides analytical and fiscal support and information activities that may include operations, taxes, grants and capital programs
? Prepares accounting schedules, projections and reports assigned as part of grant portfolios, including: preparing annual and project budgets, forecasting revenue, estimating any carry-over of funds from one year to the next
? Assists in developing and recommending revisions to accounting procedures and assists in training grant coordinators and principle investigators
? Creates and maintains standard operating procedures for grant related compliance and ongoing operations, including but not limited to time & effort reporting and real time budget management.
? Provides Monthly grants accounting reports to Director of Grants and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
? Advises staff in planning and development of budgets
? Researches, interprets and provides technical assistance regarding fiscal and accounting regulations, laws and guidelines; disseminates guidelines on accounting policies, practices and systems
? Calculates and generates payments for federal and state taxes and employee benefits
? Computes, prepares and submits the annual indirect cost rate. Provide information on the rate with applicable state agencies as required. Applies indirect costs.
? Prepares journal entries; assigns account numbers and performs system maintenance transactions
? Researches issues, verifies invoices/ billings and collects funds for the support of restricted fund expenditures.
? Researches industry standards, trends, best practices and emerging technologies and makes recommendations for implementation
? Plans, organizes, and assigns the work of staff if serving as a lead worker; plans, organizes, assigns, supervises, reviews and evaluates the work of staff if assigned supervision
? Participates in hiring, discipline and termination activities if assigned to supervision
? Performs other duties as assigned