Marymount University · 8 hours ago
Senior Accountant
Arlington, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$65K/yr - $75K/yr
5+ years expMarymount University is seeking a Senior Staff Accountant-Grant Accountant who will manage all accounting cycle tasks including AR/AP/Payroll and financial reporting, as well as grant accounting. The role involves ensuring compliance with funders’ guidelines, timely revenue receipt, and accurate financial reporting.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Manage all accounts payable and properly code to grants or programs
Perform and support bank reconciliations process in accounting system
Prepare and submit grant invoices
Provide basic financial oversight for funds related to grant projects
Monitor/track the status of each program through its program life cycle
Work with grant managers and advise management team on preparing grant budgets for proposals. Once awarded, monitor expenses for allowable uses of grant funds
Prepare budget-to-actual grant spending reports
Create and apply payments to grant and other customer invoices
Support AP and AR-related tasks
Maintain asset and depreciation schedule and post monthly depreciation
Perform month-end allocation, and revenue recognition tasks in accounting system
Prepare monthly report packages
Act as point of contact for annual audits
Qualification
Required
Five or more years of accounting experience, with a minimum of two years in a nonprofit or government setting, with nonprofit and grant experience preferred
B.A. degree or equivalent work experience
Experience with Workday Financials
Proficient with Microsoft Excel and the ability to reconcile large transactional files (power queries, pivot tables and vlookup experience preferred)
Provide timely responses to internal business units for general and grant related inquiries
Preferred
nonprofit and grant experience preferred
power queries, pivot tables and vlookup experience preferred
Company
Marymount University
Marymount University is an independent catholic university that provides education for undergraduate and graduate level students.
501-1000 employees
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Diane Murphy
Founding Director/Senior Research Faculty, Center fir the Innovative Workforce, Marymount University
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