SPONSORED PROGRAM ACCOUNTANT
- Employer
- The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
- Location
- Edinburg, TX
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Responsible for the fiscal management of externally funded sponsored projects, including project/account set up and closeout, maintaining and reconciling funds, and ensuring expenditures are allowable and appropriate.
Description of Duties•Performs compliance reviews and fund approvals of expenditure requests for assigned sponsored projects to determine allowability, allocability and appropriateness.
•Provides policy and procedure interpretation to University departments and prepares reports to federal and sponsoring agencies.
•Ensures budget adjustments are within sponsor guidelines.
•Prepares financial reports in timely and accurate manner.
•Requires understanding of effort reporting and cost sharing regulations.
•Prepares invoices and financial reports timely and submits to sponsors after examining expenditures for adherence to awards and institutional requirements.
•Advises sponsored program managers, investigators and staff in matters of compliance, procedures, project account status, termination dates, and fund balances.
•Interprets and administers rules, regulations, policies, and procedures by the University and external funding agencies.
•Provides guidance to sponsored program managers and staff regarding OMB Circulars A-21 and A-110.
•Conducts project account reconciliations, monitors Facilities and Administrative Cost (indirect cost recovery) calculations, and reviews and approves cost transfers.
•May assist Director with special projects and tasks involving financial reporting of sponsored project activities.
•Prepares, requests and posts federal funds drawdowns.
•Monitors and collects accounts receivables for sponsored projects.
•Prepares and maintains accounting records, ledgers and reports for assigned sponsored projects and reconciles account reports utilizing the University’s accounting system.
•Prepares accounting journal entries to make adjustments and/or corrections to project accounts.
•May conduct training sessions in discipline area.
•Assists in providing schedules and reports to management
•Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervision ReceivedSpecific supervision from assigned supervisor.
Supervision GivenNone.
Required EducationBachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or related field from an accredited university.
Preferred EducationN/A
Licenses/CertificationsNone.
Required ExperienceTwo (2) years of governmental or fund accounting experience.
Preferred ExperienceExperience in sponsored programs accounting, including preparing budgets. Working knowledge of contract and grant administration.
EquipmentUse of standard office equipment.
Working ConditionsNeeds to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Office Environment; some travel and weekend work is required.
OtherKnowledge of accounting and budgeting principles, practices and procedures. Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Knowledge of grants management, to include regulations (OMB Circulars A-21. A-110, and A-133) pertaining to contracts and grants administration. Excellent customer service skills. Knowledge of database and spreadsheet software and computer skills.
Physical CapabilitiesN/A
Employment Category Full-Time Minimum Salary Commensurate with Experience Posted Salary Commensurate with Experience Position Available Date 06/10/2019 Grant Funded Position No If Yes, Provide Grant Expiration Date Posting Detail Information EEO StatementUTRGV is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to hire without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or veteran status. UTRGV takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Special Instructions to ApplicantsDear Applicant,
Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following:
*Date of Birth
*Gender
*Ethnicity/Race
Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley reserves the right to discontinue accepting applications prior to the stated close date of this position, after meeting the posting requirement of three (3) calendar days.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (956) 665-2451 and/or careers@utrgv.edu.
Additional InformationUTRGV is a distributed location institution and working location is subject to change based on need.
All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the Chief Human Resources Officer.
Quick Link http://careers.utrgv.edu/postings/21495 Posting Supplemental QuestionsRequired fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * Are you a current UTRGV employee?
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- No
- * Are you now, or previously, employed by The University of Texas System or any of its institutions?
- Yes - I currently am employed by the UT System or its institutions
- Yes - I have previously been employed by the UT System or its institutions
- No - I have never been employed by the UT System or its institutions
- * Please select your highest level of completed education.
- 6th grade education
- 10th grade education
- High School Diploma or GED
- Associates Degree, Technical, or Trade School Degree/Certification or 60 Hours of College Hours
- Bachelors Degree from an accredited university
- Masters Degree from an accredited university
- Ph. D. or other terminal degree from an accredited university
- None of the above
- * Please provide the field of study for your education:
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- * Please indicate the number of years of full time work experience you have directly related to the position in which you are applying for:
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- Over 10 years
- * Do you meet the minimum requirements for this position?
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Organization
Working at The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
A New University with a Long History
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 in a historic move that brings together the resources and assets of UT Brownsville and UT Pan American and, for the first time, makes it possible for residents of the Rio Grande Valley to benefit from the Permanent University Fund—a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System.
Our new university will also be home to a School of Medicine and will transform Texas and the nation by becoming a leader in student success, teaching, research, and health care. UTRGV will enroll its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine will open in 2016.
UT Brownsville and UT Pan American
The shared history of The University of Texas Pan American and The University of Texas at Brownsville goes back to 1927, when Edinburg College was founded. In 1973, Pan American opened a second campus in Brownsville, which later became an independent institution of The University of Texas System in 1991. Over the years, the missions and the identities of these great institutions have continually evolved to serve the communities of the Rio Grande Valley.
Now, the evolution and connection between these two institutions is coming full circle as UT Brownsville and UT Pan American are being established as a single, new university and medical school, with a single, new identity—The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Learn more about UTRGV here.
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