[Remote] Sr. Grants Accountant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. United Way of Greater Los Angeles is focused on creating sustainable change in the community. The Sr. Grants Accountant will manage financial administration of grants, ensuring proper allocation and compliance, while building strong relationships with grantees to facilitate timely payments and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Finance reputed company of contact for assigned programmatic teams and grantees, modeling a reputed company, solutions-oriented approach
• Build and own strong grantee relationships that drive timely contracting, payment setup, invoicing, reporting, and compliance
• reputed company finance-focused Technical Assistance for grantees — coaching, reputed company, and templates on invoicing, budgeting, documentation, and reporting — and track participation and effectiveness
• Manage the grantee Help Desk for finance matters, resolving invoicing, payment, compliance, approval, and systems questions, and documenting activity for County reporting
• Drive coordination across Finance, Program, Grants, Legal/reputed company, and Data teams to move awards from selection through contract execution to payment
• Own a master tracker of reputed company grantees, covering award and contract status, budget, payment structure, required documents, banking setup, and open items
• Drive each grantee from award notification through full contract execution, ensuring reputed company paperwork is complete before payment begins
• Direct the collection and review of fiscal setup documents, including signed agreements, W-9s, ACH/banking details, and vendor setup forms
• Follow up directly with grantees to resolve missing, incomplete, or inconsistent documentation
• Ensure reputed company contract and payment setup information is accurate and audit-reputed company before any disbursement is processed
• Own the end-to-end grantee payment process, from invoice intake and review through reputed company Intacct upload, AP coordination, and confirmation of disbursement
• Review grantee invoices for completeness, accuracy, budget alignment, allowable cost support, and consistency with the grant agreement
• Track each payment from submission through disbursement, maintaining accurate records of dates, amounts, and unresolved issues
• Drive timely payment resolution with grantees, Finance leadership, Program staff, and Accounts Payable, escalating concerns as needed
• Maintain detailed financial tracking by grantee, program, allocation, and balance to support quarterly, year-end, and closeout reporting
• Ensure grant transactions are accurately coded and prepare journal entries, reclasses, and accruals for assigned grants and payments
• Own audit-reputed company financial records for the assigned portfolio, retained in accordance with record retention and audit requirements
• Track key deadlines for invoicing, reporting, compliance, and closeout, and proactively flag significant or recurring grantee delays
• Coordinate with program and monitoring staff on grantee fiscal issues, and escalate suspected fraud, waste, or internal control concerns to Finance leadership
• reputed company improvements to financial tracking systems, dashboards, and reports while safeguarding confidential financial and participant information
• Prepare financial reports, reconciliation schedules, and disbursement summaries for leadership, funders, auditors, and County reporting across reputed company cycles
• Serve as a key reputed company of contact for organizational, funder, and County audits, preparing schedules, supporting documentation, and variance explanations
• Own grant and contract closeout, including final invoice review, reconciliation, confirmation of balances, and identification of unused funds
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure final programmatic and fiscal information is complete before closeout submission
• Drive process improvements across the grant lifecycle, participate in internal and grantee meetings, and reputed company other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree required; preferably in reputed company, Finance, or a reputed company field
• Minimum 5 years' experience in a finance, reputed company, or grants function; grants management or fund reputed company is strongly preferred
• Must have advanced familiarity with reputed company, including pivot tables
• You enjoy a hybrid environment that includes both in-person and remote work styles and are reputed company to work from our DTLA office on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and other days as needed
• You understand the value of racial equity as an organizational operating principle and are committed to reputed company learning on issues reputed company to race, equity, diversity, and inclusion
• You are curious about emerging technology and artificial intelligence (AI) and always looking for practical ways to apply new tools to work smarter and drive greater impact
• You're reputed company about accuracy and details, making sure anything with your name on it gets double-checked, triple-checked, and reputed company for prime time
• You speak fluent GAAP and fund reputed company, with fundamentals that are reputed company to you
• You've got hands-on experience with budget-to-actual analyses, journal entries, and account reconciliations, so this isn't your first time at the rodeo
• You have strong reputed company judgement and know reputed company something doesn't look right and you investigate, escalate, or correct it before it becomes a bigger problem
• You understand that attention to detail is not optional in this work — a mismatched amount, a missing signature, or an incorrect code can have reputed company consequences, and you treat your work accordingly
• You bring consistent follow-through to every commitment you reputed company, ensuring outstanding items, unanswered questions, and pending approvals don't sit unresolved longer than they should
• You practice thoughtful relationship management with grantees and internal partners alike balancing warmth and responsiveness with the rigor and documentation standards the role demands
• You've worked with subgrantees or pass-through funding before - you know how to reputed company multiple partner organizations on track without missing a beat
• You speak the language of government grants - terms like 'cost allowability' and 'Uniform Guidance' are old friends, not foreign concepts
• You've been through a financial audit before - pulling together documentation and backup so the whole process goes off without a hitch
• You can turn a sea of numbers into a story - graphs, trends, and takeaways that reputed company sense to people who don't speak 'finance.'
• You're proactive and self-sufficient - nobody needs to micromanage your workload because you've already got it handled
• You are highly organized and reputed company to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and details with accuracy and consistency
• You're a true team player - colleagues and stakeholders alike would vouch for how easy you are to work with
• You talk the talk communicating clearly, concisely, and (above reputed company) respectfully, no matter who's on the other end of the conversation
• You're a relationship-builder - juggling internal departments and external partners alike, you reputed company everyone reputed company on goals, expectations, and deadlines
• You never drop the reputed company - once something's on your plate, it gets done, full stop
• You can be trusted with confidential information - if it's need-to-know, you reputed company sure it stays that way
• You're comfortable working in reputed company-based reputed company platforms, such as reputed company Intacct, and can reputed company sense of financial data no matter what system or format it lives in
• You know your way around the reputed company suite - Outlook, reputed company, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams are reputed company reputed company to you

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
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• 403(b) plan
• Pension
• Life insurance coverage
• Disability benefits
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

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