The CDBG-DR Grant Program Accountant is responsible for managing the financial, compliance, and reporting functions associated with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery (DR) funding. This position ensures that all expenditures, drawdowns, and financial activities comply with HUD regulations, federal Uniform Guidance, and local policies.
Requirements
- Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and/or supervises assigned accounting and financial functions, programs, and systems as a department’s lead fiscal position, or as the lead for a program/functional area within a large department, to include annual risk assessment and review and approval of fiscal transactions in the accounting system.
- Follows countywide fiscal related policies and procedures.
- Develops and implements internal departmental accounting procedures, evaluates effectiveness, and makes changes as necessary to ensure proper risk management strategies.
- Manages accounting and budget functions within a department or a program/functional area.
- Prepares complex journal entries; reconciliations of general ledger transactions to the applicable sub-ledger; processes and reconciles accounts receivable and payables; reconciles and submits billing information and resolves complex expenditure issues. Managing and processing CDBG invoices.
- Reviews and approves routine accounting entries.
- Prepares complex analyses and reports to support current and new operational initiatives; evaluates operating initiatives and environmental factors on costs of services; and assists with the development of operational efficiency measures.
- Provides guidance and assistance to department staff on a broad variety of fiscal/budget topics.
- Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and status reports for management, to include customized Business Intelligence (BI) reports, budget versus actual reports, projections, variance analysis, cost recovery reports, rate studies, and statistical information.
- Performs financial analysis to include budget versus actual revenue variances and projections, environmental scan/trends for service delivery impact, revenue management and position control.
- Monitors fiscal aspects of all grants and capital projects to include set-up, creation of task structure, projections and cash flows, reimbursement requests, and internal and external reporting.
- Participates and assists in local, state, federal, and annual financial audits.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
