Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The County of Galveston is seeking a Manager for Grant Accounting and Financial Reporting. This role involves managing grant accounting processes, ensuring compliance with various regulations, and overseeing financial reporting for the County’s grants and capital projects.
Responsibilities
- Manage grant accounting, grant compliance, and financial reporting, fixed assets, capital projects, leases (including GASB 84), and SBITA’s (GASB 96)
- Ensure compliance with governmental accounting standards
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local governmental laws and regulations, and deadlines, for accounting and reporting
- Manage division planning and assignment of job duties
- Train staff and ensure the highest standards in professionalism, ethics, and the accounting profession
- Provide leadership in grant financial reporting and performing complex accounting tasks
- Review and approve budget entries, journal entries, and customer invoices
- Strict regulations and the need for accuracy contribute to the complexity of the position
- Approve grant financial reports, as needed, to ensure accuracy and completeness for grant funds
- Consists of varied management, accounting, and supervisory duties
- Ensure compliance with policies and procedures
- Research and recommend application of accounting standards, principles, and statutes
- Review and provide analysis for the County’s monthly financial reports
- Contacts are typically with County staff, elected, and appointed officials, department heads, and vendors to provide service, give or exchange information, or to resolve problems
- Prepare assigned tasks for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), and approve tasks assigned to the division for ACFR
- Prepare Single Audit reports
- Able to report regularly for work and be on time
- Performs related duties
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, 5+ years of experience in accounting or auditing, including 3+ years of proven management and administrative responsibility
- Certified Public Accountant or Certified Public Finance Officer license a plus
- Ability to plan, organize, direct, and coordinate the work of personnel, and meet deadlines
- Very organized and an excellent multitasker
- Skilled in writing and oral communications
- Must be able to analyze and develop solutions to problems
- Must be proficient in working with computer programs (MS Office)
- Skill in preparing clear and precise financial and statistical reports
- Must pass a Criminal Background check, possess a valid Texas Driver's License, and be able to be bonded
- Knowledge of advanced accounting practices and techniques
- Knowledge of relevant local, state and federal laws
- Knowledge of administrative management and planning
- Knowledge of government bookkeeping and accounting
- Knowledge of preparation and interpretation of statistical, technical, and narrative reports
- Knowledge of county department operations, organization, accountability, and responsibility
- Knowledge of generally accepted governmental accounting and auditing principles
- Skill in grant accounting and grant financial reporting
- Skill in planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating the work of personnel, and meeting deadlines
- Skill in the analysis of problems and the development and implementation of solutions
- Skill in the preparation of clear and precise financial and statistical reports
- Skill in oral and written communication
- Experience in governmental accounting, budget development, and grant accounting preferred
- Experience in the County's financial system, Workday, a plus
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