Description
Position Summary
Why it's a Great Opportunity: As an experienced Grant Auditor, you will work with our partnering agencies who have been awarded funds to ensure compliance of regulations based upon funding source. You will periodically go onsite and review documentation, client files, financial records, business documents, and any specific funding source requirements followed by submitting results and reports. Your work directly impacts the community in which you live ensuring proper usage of funding resources.
Why it's a Great Department: Pierce County Human Services is the community and human services arm of Pierce County government. It is the largest contributor to Pierce County's safety net providing services and funding to nearly 170 agencies and governmental jurisdictions. The department collaborates with its community partners, including other public and non-profit funders and service providers to understand current and emerging community and human service’s needs. The department strives to create and invest in a comprehensive and integrated regional services system.
Learn more about our department by clicking here.
How to be Successful in this Role: We are looking for someone who is an excellent verbal communicator who can adapt their style to their audience explaining complex language in easy-to-understand terms. Someone who is detail oriented, analytical, and who can write in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
Your Future in this Role: Throughout the onboarding process, you will meet with the Managers, Supervisors, and teams, regularly to discuss expectations, set goals, identify priorities, and gain familiarity with current policies, procedures, and strategic measures. Pierce County offers professional development, robust online learning, and other training opportunities throughout your career to ensure your success.
Core Daily Responsibilities:
- Direct and participate in the establishment and maintenance of comprehensive fiscal processes, procedures and controls for fulfillment of, and compliance with, grant requirements; verify compliance on a variety of financial documents for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with uniform accounting requirements and with program regulations, goals, and objectives.
- Research subcontractors and design compliance visit to ensure compliance.
- Coordinate fiscal compliance visits with Contract and Monitoring personnel to minimize disruption to subcontractor’s business.
- Perform fiscal risk assessments, perform external compliance reviews and communicate regarding subcontractor compliance, follow-up on audit findings.
- Assists with developing and maintaining accounting controls, policies and procedures; reviews, analyzes and evaluates existing policies and procedures to develop improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
- Monitor sub-recipient, sub-contractor or vendor budgets and related fiscal reports to ensure grant compliance, adherence to county, state and federal regulations, allowable costs, adequate budgetary constraints/controls maintenance, timely report submission, and compliance with generally accepted accounting practices and procedures.
- Ensure effective communication with county departments and staff to facilitate and ensure adherence to policies and procedures.
A classification description with a more detailed list of essential functions that may be performed can be found here.
Qualifications
- REQUIRED - Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or public administration, or related discipline applicable to the duties of the position PLUS
- Two or more years of experience in government accounting, compliance, contracts, and experience working with federal and state grants
- Upload a resume and cover letter.
As a condition of employment, the applicant will need to authorize and complete a background check. Information received from the background check is reviewed case-by-case and will not necessarily remove an applicant from consideration.
Supplemental Information
To be considered for this opportunity please:
- Complete and submit a detailed online Pierce County Employment Application by selecting "APPLY" above or go to: www.piercecountywa.org/jobs.
- If you have a question about this opportunity, please email the Recruitment Team at [email protected] and specify the Job Number and Title.
- Upload a resume and a cover letter.
- If you do not have internet access, you may visit your local public library or any WorkSource location and use their computers.
- Individuals needing accommodation in the application, testing process or need this job announcement in an alternative format may call Human Resources at (253) 798-7480, at least two days prior to the need.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
