Senior Associate, Financial Reporting & Grant Audit (P1)

Description

Summary

The Senior Associate, Financial Reporting & Grant Audit, will be responsible for the preparation and submission of financial reports, advance requests, and invoices for awards, within their assigned portfolio.

You will be responsible for tracking payment status and providing updates on receivables for their portfolio. You will maintain the appropriate document support and tracking for donor submissions completed by the entire donor billing team.

In addition, you will support the Advisor, Financial Reporting & Grant Audit with grant specific audit requests.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Preparation & submission of Donor Reports & Journal Vouchers for assigned portfolio (55%)
• Monthly preparation of accurate, timely financial reports & invoices
• Review of any country office prepared reports for accuracy
• Tracking of payments due and follow up as needed on receivables
• Preparation and completion of assigned helpdesk tickets related to journal vouchers
• Grant Specific Audit / EAA support (15%)
• Receive, organize, and complete first round review of supporting documentation in conjunction with relevant stakeholders
• Create and maintain trackers of all items requested and received as well as relevant communications related to requested items and clarifications as needed
• Establish calendar of known compliance requirements (i.e., audit) and coordinate amongst teams through completion
• Reporting Collection & Accountability (20%)
• Responsible for the overall maintenance and management of document repository for all submitted donor financial reports in close coordination with donor billing team
• Update both AMS & Agresso reporting schedules in line with monthly submissions and liaise with both International Programs and ACOR teams to ensure financial reporting key performance indicators are both met and accurate.

Lead in follow through to resolution for any discrepancies between systems.

• Propose ways to improve AMS and Agresso for increased efficiency
• Continuous Improvement & Efficiency (10%)
• Maintain required reporting templates per donor specifications
• Facilitate review and updates of existing EFRAP policy and procedures to new required agency guidelines while ensuring completeness of topics covered
• Data analysis for continuous improvement and efficiency projects
• Lead cleanup of existing shared computer drive to Sharepoint online and create a workflow for future use

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 2 years of relevant experience
• Experience with financial systems and general accounting language / principal
• Ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines with attention to detail
• Demonstrated commitment to problem solving and achieving established goals
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location :

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average : Target Salary for this position is $55,250 $61,750 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average : Target Salary for this position is $50,150 $56,050 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average : Target Salary for this position is $45,050 $50,350 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available ).

Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental / adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.

We do whatever it takes for children every day and in times of crisis transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit at every opportunity to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.

As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve.

We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact.

All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.