What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grant and Contract Administrator I position at arizona?
Digital Account Maintenance: Setup and monitor digital accounts for all grants, maintain account-specific notes and internal spreadsheets, verify proper award documents and budgets are saved; assist with account template improvements.
Financial Account Balance & Projections: Respond to account balance inquiries, complete in-depth analysis of posted expenses, ensure allowability, investigate open encumbrances and available balances, manually track pending charges (not yet inputted in the system). Communicate hiring/purchasing options to faculty based on expense forecasts.
Financial System Monitoring: Update and maintain Position Distributions, complete Salary Transfers, process External Awards and Financial Aide requests; Input Capital Requisitions, complete General Expense Corrections, review Transaction Detail reports, communicate concerns or updates to faculty regarding specific expenses.
Financial Compliance and Training: Internal trainings, team workshops, streamline reporting mechanisms and templates to aid in Financial reporting (HMBC/Sponsored Projects) and Technical/Progress reporting; provide policy and procedural information to faculty regarding any applicable university, state, local government, or federal partner.
Financial Reporting: Review auto-generated reports with faculty on monthly and/or quarterly basis; assist with financial reports due to internal or external partners. Provide manually-created reports which fall outside the UA Analytics tools currently in place.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
General knowledge and use of principles, theories and concepts.
Competent in all job functions
General understanding of the industry practices, techniques and standards.