Careers Job Description
General Description
This position reports directly to the Assistant Controller. The incumbent will assist the Group Manager and Staff Accountants in administering Agency Fund accounts, including setting up, maintaining and updating project information and records/reports; reviewing project budgets, encumbrances and expenses; and verifying authorizing signatures and availability of funding.
Other Duties
• Assist Staff Accountants in administering Agency Fund accounts, including the Recovery, Recovery Derived and Central Allocation Budget accounts.
• Set up, maintain and update all project information.
• Review project budgets, encumbrances and expenses, including independent contractor agreements, purchase orders, payment request forms, and personnel action forms.
• Verify authorizing signatures and the availability of funding; and review and process transactions according to project standards and guidelines.
• Review and enter transactions, including journal entries and pre-encumbrances into the accounting system.
• Maintain records/reports that track RFCUNY and College advances and guarantees to sponsored projects.
• Communicate effectively with and prepare written correspondence to Project Directors and to other RFCUNY departments, providing exceptional customer service.
• Assist Staff Accountants in preparing monthly and annual financial reports/statements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• BS or BBA degree required with at least fifteen (15) credits in accounting.
• At least one (1) year of fund accounting experience
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented with superior analytical skills, and computer literacy in Excel
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Finance
Full Time
$64,818.58 - $86,226.56
Oct 03, 2023 (Or Until Filled)