The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry is recruiting a Senior Grants Accountant to join our team!

• The pay range for this position is $67,000 - $83,000 depending on qualifications and experience.
• The members of this team work a hybrid schedule, with two days remote and three days on site at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities' East Bank campus in Minneapolis.

This Senior Grants Accountant position is the primary accountant for a variety of sponsored projects at the University of Minnesota's School of Dentistry.

In this position, you'll be responsible for:

• coordinating the financial and budgeting requirements for sponsored federal and non-federal research grants and contracts including NIH R01, R03, R21 awards, subcontracts, fixed-price industry contracts, and cost-reimbursable foundation awards.
• assessing the risk of financial transactions and for ensuring the financial success of assigned sponsored programs.

The School of Dentistry grants management team has a collegial, supportive, and collaborative work environment that champions strategic and critical thinking. We support each other in our work to provide professional, outstanding service to improve success and excellence in the dental research community.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide primary accounting support for the entire life-cycle of assigned sponsored projects.
• Analyze and identify projected budget and revenue shortfalls, personnel commitments, pending fixed-price transfers, and other grant related issues.
• Advise principal investigators (PI) regarding issues, explain financial policies and recommend solutions to problems.
• Complete budget revisions for reduced awards.
• Research and capture data for faculty needing bridge support and impact of personnel layoffs.
• Coordinate close-out of projects.
• Coordinate with PI and staff, submission of sponsored applications to SPA by specified delivery dates.
• Complete budgets and other sponsoring agency forms for proposals.
• Prepare and process Proposal Routing Forms.
• Assist with processing financial documents ensuring compliance with policies. Process HRMS payroll distributions and historical salary corrections.
• Audit subcontract expenditures and approve invoices.
• Forecast annual direct and indirect expenditures; project annual academic salary savings. Prepare grant financial status reports including award amounts, transfers, carry-over, expenditures, personnel detail and projected commitments for PIs.
• Reconcile and maintain University general ledger ensuring that financial transactions meet all university, federal and sponsor guidelines.
• Investigate and remediate discrepancies.
• Process journal entries and re-budget between expenditure categories.
• Maintain collegiate files for project awards with supporting documentation and grant correspondence.
• Assist with Effort Certification of faculty and staff ensuring accurate effort expenditure, including required cost- sharing. Assist lead effort coordinator with the timely completion of semi-annual certification process.
• Serve as liaison with the University’s Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) and Sponsored Financial Reporting (SFR) in meeting policy guidelines and procedures for grant applications and awarded projects.
• Audit and recommend changes to SFR’s grant year-end reports.
• Reconcile SFR prepared agency invoices.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

** Please detail all three of the required qualifications on your application materials. **

1. Bachelor’s Degree in accounting plus at least four years of professional work experience in the field, or a combination of related education and work experience to equal eight years.
2. Knowledge of generally accepted accounting practices and principles (GAAP).
3. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal oral communication skills.

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