Primary PurposeContributes to assigned unit's financial success by examining budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyzes budgeting and account reports. Reviews and assists Principal Investigators (PI), faculty, and researchers with grant operating budgets and makes recommendations for budget allocations to ensure conformance to budgetary limits.Essential Job FunctionsPerforms accounting functions related to grants and contracts, including assisting in the development of budgets, approving expenditures, preparing invoices, and ensuring all accounting activity complies with the sponsor's policies and procedures.Serves as Effort Coordinator for the college and assists PIs when processing effort cards. Assists PIs with reconciling payroll percentages with Human Resources data.Prepares, examines, or analyzes accounting records, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.Develops, maintains, and analyzes budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted revenues and expenses to actuals.Analyzes business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.Interprets budget directives and ensures compliance.Classifies, records, and summarizes numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers.Reviews purchase orders, check requests, expense reports, journal entries, and/or budget transfers for accuracy, and approves or denies.Compiles budget data and documents, based on estimated revenues and expenses and previous budgets.Reviews operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs, and takes corrective action when needed.Analyzes monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.Compiles and analyzes accounting records and other data to determine the financial resources required to implement a program.Provides advice and/or technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.Examines budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.Summarizes budgets and submits recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.Directs the preparation of regular and special budget reports.Seeks new ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase profits.Completes special projects as assigned.Performs other duties as assigned or required.Physical RequirementsNear Vision – Must be able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).Speech Recognition – Must be able to identify and understand the speech of another person.Speech Clarity – Must be able to speak clearly so others can understand you.May be required to work nights or weekends.May be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.May be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipment/supplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, mobile devices, and computer keyboards.Required KnowledgeEconomics and Accounting – Working knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.English Language – General knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.Administration and Management – General knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, budgeting, human resources modeling, leadership technique, and/or coordination of people and resources.Customer and Personal Service – General knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of user satisfaction.SkillsActive Listening – Proficient skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.Reading Comprehension – Proficient understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.Critical Thinking – Proficient skills in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.Mathematics – Proficient skills in using mathematics to solve problems.Speaking – Proficient skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.Judgment and Decision Making – Proficient skills in considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the appropriate one.Writing – Basic skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.Management of Financial Resources – Advanced skills in determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.AbilitiesMathematical Reasoning – The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.Number Facility – The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.Inductive Reasoning – The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).Information Ordering – The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.Required EducationBachelor's degreeRequired ExperienceFour (4) to six (6) years of accounting related experience.Equal Opportunity Employer StatementNova Southwestern University is in full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and does not discriminate with regard to applicants or employees with disabilities and will make reasonable accommodation when necessary.NSU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status or any other legally protected status.#J-18808-Ljbffr