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Accounting Manager
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Job Title
Accounting ManagerJob Description
Join our team in Research and Sponsored Programs Accounting, where we directly contribute to Notre Dame’s mission of being a force for good in the world. Through our support for campus partners, we enable them to achieve their goals while meticulously stewarding their resources. We uphold Notre Dame’s values of teamwork, accountability, integrity, and leadership in excellence and mission.
What’s in it for you?
At Notre Dame, we offer more than just a job – we provide an environment where you can thrive personally and professionally. Our unique work culture, coupled with our distinctive mission, offers you the opportunity to build a fulfilling career. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive list of best-in-class benefits. Join a department that values independent work and empowers you to make decisions aligned with the University’s mission. This position is a hybrid role allowing up to 2 days to work from home.
What’s it really like to work here?
Join a dynamic team committed to continuous improvement. You’ll have the freedom to innovate, explore creative solutions, ask insightful questions, and learn from both successes and failures. As an Accounting Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring financial compliance and operational efficiency in managing a portfolio of research awards. Your responsibilities are ensuring financial compliance along with training, grant analysis, billing, financial reporting, and policy development.
What’s next?
If you’re excited about the prospect of making a difference while doing what you love in a supportive and mission-driven environment, we invite you to apply and share more about yourself. Join us in fulfilling Notre Dame’s distinctive mission and make it your professional home.
Job duties:
• Perform regular grant analysis and targeted account audits based upon risk assessments of grants, including associated cost share funds, and other related research programs. Such analyses and audits will target “red flags” noted and use those as a basis for changes in existing policies/procedures/oversight focus.
• Actively participate in developing and delivering targeted financial compliance training and certification programs to researchers and research support staff across the institution. Such programs will include not only financial compliance components, but also systems and process efficiency components.
• Develop, document and test internal controls specifically associated with financial compliance over externally funded research programs.
• Monitor and facilitate enterprise wide compliance programs such as effort certification, subrecipient monitoring, costing analysis (F&A, Blended Fringe, Recharge Analysis) and the like.
• Ensure all University policies and procedures related to research financial compliance and processes are up to date, documented and posted on the appropriate web pages.
• Assist in the coordination and reporting of external audits, surveys, and other ad-hoc reporting (i.e.: Uniform Guidance Audit, NSF Survey, Indiana Entity Report, NSF Space Survey, ONR Property Reviews).
Minimum Qualifications
• BA or BS in Accounting, Business, Economics, or Finance with a strong background in accounting and/or auditing.
• 1 to 2 years in accounting in higher education, governmental, or public accounting.
• Prior accounting/business experience must have required decision making, analysis, and presentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with proficiency with Microsoft Office software suite.
• 1 to 2 years in accounting in higher education, governmental, or public accounting.
• Prior accounting/business experience must have required decision making, analysis, and presentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with proficiency with Microsoft Office software suite.
Preferred Qualifications
• CPA with emphasis on auditing experience, or Master’s level business/accounting coursework.
• A working knowledge of the federal administrative requirements and cost principles contained in the Uniform Guidance, CAS, GAAP, and GAAS applicable to higher education is also preferred.
• A working knowledge of the federal administrative requirements and cost principles contained in the Uniform Guidance, CAS, GAAP, and GAAS applicable to higher education is also preferred.
Department
Research and Sponsored Progs Acct (47025)Department Website
controller.nd.eduFamily / Sub-Family
Fin Mgmt / Gnrl AccountingCareer Stream/Level
EIC 3 SpecialistDepartment Hiring Pay Range
up to $70k, Commensurate with experiencePay ID
Semi-MonthlyFLSA Status
S1 - FT ExemptJob Category
Administrator/ProfessionalJob Type
Full-timeSchedule: Days of Week & Hours
Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm
Schedule: Hours/Week
40Schedule: # of months
12Job Posting Date (Campus)
09/30/2024Job Posting Date (Public)
09/30/2024Job Closing Date
10/16/2024Posting Type
Open To All ApplicantsPosting Number
S251441Quick Link for Internal Postings
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