Grant Accountant

Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners•Tampa, FL

12h

About The Position

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. The accountant maintains accurate grant financial records, prepares required reports, monitors budgets, and supports program staff and subrecipients in meeting financial and documentation requirements. The role plays a critical part in safeguarding grant funds, ensuring audit readiness, and supporting the successful delivery of CDBG-DR funded programs and projects. Knowledge of federal grants, including portal reporting requirements, is crucial in this role. The ideal candidate for this position will have at least two years of experience in accounting in government along with at least one year of experience working with federal grants, particularly CDBG and HUD, as well as reporting and maintaining government reporting portals.

Requirements

Knowledge of governmental accounting and auditing principles, practices, procedures, methods, and theory.
Knowledge of computerized accounting systems to include automated accounting system applications.
Knowledge of the specific accounting and reporting requirements and the complete accounting cycle of the organization to which assigned.
Ability to analyze and audit accounting, fiscal, payroll and leave data, reports, and statements.
Highly skilled in collaboration, communication, teamwork, analysis, customer service, and problem resolution.
Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while meeting critical deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in a diverse team with varying responsibilities.
Extensive experience in business process analysis, improvement, and documentation.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with others within and outside own organization.
Ability to apply accounting knowledge to ERP systems, roles, and responsibilities, processes, workflows, and transactions.
Self-motivated; able to manage time to ensure completion of assigned tasks and/or projects.
Self-starter with the ability to work independently.
Identify a problem or issue, collect information or data on the issue and research it through.
Organize and sort data and findings, develop recommendation, implement solutions and monitor to ensure issues are fully resolved.
Identify critical factors which will affect the outcome of a decision, evaluate options accurately and establish priorities in order to support proposed solutions and communicate methodologies to management and end users.
Ability to communicate effectively with superiors, colleagues, and staff verbally and through writing skills. Must have the ability to communicate complex fiscal issues and proposed solutions to non-fiscal management leaders in supported departments.
Knowledge of business operations and procedures, demonstrate strategic thinking abilities, analytical mind with problem solving aptitude.
Help build strong teams within the organization and ensure projects, initiatives, or other work functions are performed successfully.
Ability to visualize, gather information, articulate, analyze, solve complex problems, and make decisions.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field; AND
Three (3) years of experience with financial/fiscal transactional/process analysis, configuration, and/or process improvement experience in an ERP system; OR
An equivalent combination of education (not less than possession of a high school diploma/GED), training, and experience that would reasonably be expected to provide the job-related competencies noted above.

Responsibilities

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. Reconcile program timesheets.
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.