Company :
Allegheny Health Network
Job Description :
This is a remote position, but we require candidates to be located in the Eastern Time Zone to align with our Pittsburgh, PA-based operations
GENERAL OVERVIEW:
The incumbent is a key resource responsible for the implementation, execution, and analysis of post-award and financial management activities for grants, contracts, and/or clinical trials within the Sponsored Programs Financial Services (SPFS) supporting Allegheny-Singer Research Institute and Allegheny Health Network. Responsibilities include complex award set-up, comprehensive transaction processing, compliance review, cash management, collections, financial reporting, and project close-out. Possesses deep understanding and ensures material accuracy of financial statements/reports. Independently analyzes complex financial results and outcomes, trends/projections, performance metrics and proactively provides root cause analysis and recommendations to facilitate business decisions while adhering to institutional policies and procedures and Sponsor guidelines. Serves as a mentor to junior analysts.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Portfolio Management: Manages a complex portfolio of sponsored programs, providing comprehensive post-award financial oversight from program activation to close-out. Performs advanced analysis on budget performance and account receivables, independently investigates and troubleshoots significant variances, developing corrective action plans. Reviews, approves, and prepares financial transactions in accordance with award/contract/Sponsor terms, GAAP, Uniform Guidance and institutional policies and procedures. Leads financial meetings with constituents on financial performance to enable Investigators/Directors, cost center managers, and business partners to make sound financial decisions in accordance with programmatic needs. Proactively monitors subaward and contracted service agreements in accordance with terms, facilitates complex rebudgeting, no-cost extension requests, costing allocations for personnel, properly documenting complex cost transfers, tracking cost share, and manages complex cost overruns.
Compliance Management: Possesses expert understanding of business and financial terms and conditions of grant, contract, and/or clinical trial agreements. Independently maintains compliance with allowable costs, period of performance, subrecipient monitoring, tracking cost share and program income, effort reporting, reporting, other special test provisions, cash management invoicing, and clinical trial billing compliance. Maintains expertise in federal, state, local, private sponsors, and other agency regulations including Uniform Guidance. Independently evaluates and develops business processes in support of post-award management.
Invoicing, Accounting Receivable, and Cash Management: Possesses advanced understanding of payment terms and payment sched