Research Account Administrator – Grant Account Management

Job Description

Research Accountant | Arkansas Children’s

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Arkansas Children’s, a leading pediatric healthcare institution committed to providing a tobacco-free workplace and maintaining high health standards through required flu vaccines. As a Research Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in the financial administration of crucial grant accounts, directly supporting the organization’s research initiatives. Your meticulous work ensures the proper allocation and monitoring of funds, which is essential for the integrity and continued success of pediatric research programs that benefit children across Arkansas and beyond.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full time

• Team: CC033005 Research Account Administration, reporting to the Director of Research Accounts.
• Mission: This person ensures the accurate financial management and compliance of grant accounts for research programs.
• Tech Stack: Workday

What You’ll Actually Do
• Grant Account Management: Set up new grant accounts in Workday and reconcile account balances within the financial systems at ACRI and AC to ensure accurate reporting.
• Expenditure Oversight: Monitor budget revision requests for approval and approve grant expenditures in Workday, adhering to budget, policy, and sponsor requirements.
• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Prepare and maintain various financial reports, including detailed schedules of activities, overhead, federal revenue and expense, and deficit account balances, assisting with annual account reviews.
• Compliance & Problem Resolution: Provide customer service to the research community by researching and resolving questions or problems encountered by investigators and staff, ensuring familiarity with federal guidelines and ACRI/AC policies.
• Invoice Verification: Verify and reconcile salary, fringe, and subaward invoices from partners like UAMS, ensuring alignment with grant budgets, regulatory compliance, and timely payment processing.

The Must-Haves
• Background: High school diploma or GED or equivalent.
• Experience: Minimum of two years of accounting or financial management experience, particularly in roles involving account reconciliation, expenditure monitoring, or financial reporting. This experience may substitute for a high school diploma/GED.
• Skills: Account reconciliation and management, financial reporting and analysis, expenditure approval and compliance, grant guideline interpretation, customer service, and proficiency with financial reporting systems.
• Bonus: Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study.