Serves as the cross-functionally partner for the principal investigators/department contact for grant and contract accounting functions to ensure institutional goals are met  by reviewing new award setup documentation for terms and conditions, award restrictions or sponsor requirements for the fiscal and administrative management of awards.

Ensures all award supporting documents are complete and properly authorized and monitors accounts receivable and perform collection functions on a monthly or more frequent basis.

Research aging reports and generated payments via the company’s policies and procedures and reviews financial transactions and related documents to assure allowability, conformity, reasonableness and to avoid waste, loss, misuse

Monitors/Reviews research proposals prior to submission to Federal, State, Corporate and other agencies to ensure compliance with University and agency policies and procedures.

Analysis of fund balances to determine burn rate calculations for progress reporting, carry-over requests, projections, and close-outs of research/grant awards.

Performs and assists with reconciling award activity of expenses to budget in order to avoid cost over-runs per Sponsor and University guidelines as well as submission of Journal entries for all salary and non-salary expenses, all fringe corrections/accruals, and F&A distributions.

Uses/designs appropriate Data Warehouse and General Ledger reports as well as spreadsheet and database programs to monitor, control, and report revenues and expenditures of awards to comply with requirements of funding sponsor/agency and University requirements.