Grant Accountant

Salary: Depends on Qualifications
Location : Austin, TX
Job Type: Full Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: 24-09447
Department: County Auditor
Opening Date: 09/17/2024
Closing Date: 12/17/2024 11:59 PM Central
Job Summary
The Travis County Auditor's Office has an opening in its Grants Auditing Division for an individual wanting to work in a progressive, challenging, and team-oriented work environment. This position reports to the Grants Financial Audit Manager of Travis County, which is a billion-dollar local government organization with approximately 6,000 employees. We offer a competitive salary together with a stable work environment, no routine overnight travel, casual dress attire, professional development, 12 paid holidays, 3 weeks of vacation per year, excellent pension plan, and an extensive benefits package. We offer a flexible work schedule and a work environment that is primarily remote. Applicant must reside or be willing to relocate to Travis County or the surrounding area.
Position Summary
Our team needs a cross-functional person, who can see the big picture as well as mind the details. This person performs accounting and reporting tasks for grants awarded to the County, including account analysis, journal entries, and developing financial statements.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures compliance and maintains fiscal accountability regarding rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, applicable laws, OMB circulars, contracts, and entity specific policies.
• Reviews grant documentation to ensure that each grant is within budget and following specific grant restrictions involving varying fiscal years.
• Reconciles a variety of grant financial records and information; maintains appropriate grant back-up documentation.
• Performs grant related post award functions including reconciliations, budget carryover and closeout functions as required by grant and contract administration.
• Conducts audit of actual expenditures to ensure spending is within approved budget and revenues are on course to meet estimates.
• Conducts special projects regarding grants, researches and analyzes issues, performs complex financial calculations, and creates reports and compiles supporting documents for management review.
• Prepare and submits monthly/quarterly invoices to various State/Federal agencies for reimbursements.
• Ensures that sub-recipients are meeting their ongoing contract responsibilities with audits/monitoring visits.
• Maintains continuing educational proficiency in grant regulations and program development skills.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong understanding of grants and governmental accounting
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving problems.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Strong team spirit, leadership skills and the ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and other MS Office applications.
• Strong understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS).

Minimum Requirements
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field from a 4-year accredited university
• At least 3 yrs. relevant work experience in grant and/or governmental accounting
• SAP experience a plus

Work Environment & Other Information
This job description is intended to be generic in nature. It is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The essential duties, functions and responsibilities and overtime eligibility may vary based on the specific tasks assigned to the position.
A criminal, education, and employment background check are required. Note that you must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.; no visa sponsorships offered.
Benefits
Employment at Travis County comes with a full array of benefits. We offer comprehensive health insurance, a no-cost, on-site Health and Wellness clinic, longevity pay, paid vacations, sick time and personal holidays, not to mention an industry competitive salary structure and a friendly, stable work environment.
FY2024 Travis County Benefit Guide
In this valuable you will find benefit summaries, eligibility requirements, costs, contact numbers and addresses as well as other general information on the benefits available to Travis County Employees and Retirees.
Credit Union
Employees may join the Travis County Credit Union which offers low-interest loans, savings plans through payroll deduction, safe deposit boxes and other benefits.
Deferred Compensation
Employees may enroll in a tax- free sheltered investment plan through payroll deduction.
Direct Deposit
Employees may sign up for direct bank deposit.
Employee Assistance Program
Travis County provides a confidential counseling and referral service free of charge to county employees and their family.
Employee Organizations
Membership in the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union is available through payroll deduction.
Employee Health & Wellness Clinic
Employees may access the clinic for a variety of wellness program and health care services with no co-pay, no deductible and no co-insurance costs.
Holidays
An average of eleven paid holidays are designated by the Travis County Commissioners Court at the beginning of each fiscal year.
Insurance
Employees may select from four plans: an Exclusive Physician Organization (EPO), Choice Plus Preferred Physician Organization (PPO), Consumer Choice or a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings Account (HSA). All four options include a Pharmacy Plan. Travis County's current policy is to pay 100% of the employee's health insurance premium for the Consumer Choice and HDHP. Employees will pay a premium for both the EPO and PPO. Other insurance benefits include $50,000 Basic Life and AD&D paid by the County.
The following benefits are employee paid:

• Dental
• Vision
• Supplemental Life, AD&D
• Dependent Life
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Long Term Care

New employees are covered on the first day of the month following 28 calendar days of employment.
Longevity
Longevity pay is paid for each year completed after three years of continuous service. Peace Officers in a law enforcement activity, whose job requires state peace officer certification, receive pay after one year of certification.
On the regular payday on or after the employee's fourth and subsequent adjusted service dates, he or she receives a single payment for the previous year.
Parking
A limited number of assigned parking spaces are available to employees in the Courthouse Complex.
Personal Holidays
Regular, full-time employees are eligible for up to three paid personal holidays each calendar year. Part-time employees shall be granted personal holidays on a prorated basis. New employees earn personal holidays for the calendar year in which he/she begins employment, based on the month in which employment begins:
January - March
3 personal holidays
April - June
2 personal holidays
July - September
1 personal holiday
October - December
None
New employees are eligible to take personal holidays after 90 days of employment.
Retirement
Travis County is a member of the Texas County & District Retirement System with mandatory participation by certain classes of employees. Seven percent (7%) of the gross salary is deducted each pay period. An employee is fully vested after eight years of service. Benefits are prorated for part-time employees.
Sick Leave
Regular employees earn sick leave at a rate of eight hours per month with unlimited accrual during employment. Part-time employees earn sick leave on a pro-rated basis.
Parental Leave
Each Full-time Paid Parental Leave Eligible (PPL) Employee is entitled to a total of 320 hours of Paid Parental Leave in a 12 month period. Paid Parental Leave for Part-time PPL Eligible Employees is prorated based on the number of hours that they are regularly scheduled to work.
Tuition Refund
Certain classes of full-time employees may receive reimbursement for fees associated with pre-approved, job related course work completed satisfactorily.
Vacation
Based on years of county service, regular, full-time employees earn vacation time at the following rates:
0 to 5 years
4.0 hours per pay period
6 to 10 years
4.5 hours per pay period
11 to 15 years
5.0 hours per pay period
16 to 20 years
5.5 hours per pay period
21 plus years
6.0 hours per pay period
Part-time employees earn vacation leave on a pro-rated basis.
Workers' Compensation
The county provides all employees workers' compensation coverage with benefits in accordance with state statute, if the employee sustains an injury out of, or in the course of work.
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Please list the accounting systems that you have used in the past along with your proficiency level in each (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced).
02
Which of the following describes your proficiency with Microsoft Excel?

• No experience
• Basic: create/edit simple spreadsheets, sort data, enter formulas
• Intermediate: create/edit spreadsheets, create charts/graphs from spreadsheet data, hide/unhide rows and columns, use basic functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, and COUNT
• Advanced: develop complex spreadsheets, create charts/graphs/tables, import data from external databases, use AutoFilter to analyze data, use complex functions for math & logic equations

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Please describe your grant auditing/monitoring experience:
04
Do you have any governmental/non-profit accounting experience? If yes, please describe:
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Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship (such as H1B, J1, H2-A, etc.) for employment at Travis County?
06
I acknowledge that a requirement for this position is that I must reside in Travis County or be willing to relocate to Travis County or the surrounding area at my own expense.

• Yes
• No

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