Since 1927, the Buffalo Urban League has brought positive change and opportunities for a better future to hundreds of thousands of lives in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Our services build strong and stable families by empowering individuals to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights. Our programs serve individuals from birth through senior years by providing family support and stabilization services, foster care, adoption, education, job training, employment, scholarships, health awareness, financial management, business development, technical assistance, and housing counseling to renters, first-time homeowners, and families to prevent foreclosures to individuals in our community.

Our Mission:

To help African Americans and others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic self- reliance, power, and civil rights. The League promotes economic empowerment through education and job training, housing and community development, workforce development, entrepreneurship, health, and quality of life.

Compensation - $55,000 - $75,000

Position Summary:

The Grant Accountant monitors, analyzes, audits and reports on the financial activity for a wide variety of grant programs contracted with federal, state, and local agencies, private foundations, and other private & public organizations.

Specific Duties:

• Assists with financial accounting functions to ensure accurate recording and reporting of agency and grant financial information.
• Displays accounting software application proficiency and ability to adapt available features to analyze financial transactions utilizing accounting software and MS Excel.
• Meets with Program Director and finance team members when grants are awarded to review responsibilities for grant management and reporting. Maintains a positive and proactive relationship throughout the grant to ensure responsibilities are met.
• Monitors financial performance of grants vs budgets and discusses and communicates trends as they occur to the Director of Finance.
• Properly records grant income and expenses and monitors general ledger activity for related programs.
• Develops and runs reports to monitor and track assigned grant financial & budget performance. Provides timely financial performance reports to program leadership.
• Prepares accurate, timely, periodic (monthly, quarterly, annual, ad hoc) invoices/vouchers and/or financial reports as required by grantors.
• Reconciles interim and final financial reports. Verifies final financial reports with Director of Finance and Program leaders.
• Works with finance and program leadership on grants fiscal year projections.
• Assists and supports finance department with proper general ledger reporting.
• Complies with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Properly codes and monitors documents according to procedures.
• Assists with budgets, audits and account reconciliations.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience.
• Three (3) years of Accounting experience, preferably in a non-profit setting.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, practices, and grants management procedures.
• Excellent problem solving, accuracy, attention to detail, organization, and follow through.
• Fund accounting skills and ability to understand and analyze complex financial transactions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of local, state & federal grant reporting requirements.
• Ability to exercise and interpret policy and fiscal guidelines.
• Accounting software application proficiency.
• Spreadsheet proficiency and advanced skills using Microsoft Excel and MS suite of applications.
• The ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to multitask in completing work.