ACF Financial Analyst

Jefferson is seeking a Financial Analyst for a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) opportunity focused on grants management. The Financial Analyst will provide recipient financial reporting, audit, and closeout support.

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Responsibilities:  

• Reviews grant expenditure and claiming reports, to ensure accuracy, conformance to reporting requirements, and procedures.
• Provides technical assistance to recipients to ensure reporting requirements are understood and expressed accurately.
• Utilizes data to monitor, recognize, and analyze data for report status, reconciliation, and anomalies.
• Provides technical assistance to recipients to resolve anomalies to ensure accuracy of claiming and expenditure reporting.
• Tracks and reconciles issues with expenditure and claiming reports; provides technical assistance to help recipients resolve the precipitating conditions to assure efficient award issuance and prevent progression to initiation of non-compliance measures including repayment of funds.
• Provides support to program eligibility reviews through validating payment history and calculating disallowances associated with ineligible payments.
• Provides technical assistance to recipients to decrease the likelihood of improper payments and related penalties in future periods.
• Performs a review of the allocation of shared administrative costs to identify areas requiring further input from recipients and/or Program Office staff.
• Performs secondary review of costs within public assistance cost allocation plans (PACAPs) and cost allocation methodologies (CAMs), as appropriate.
• Provides assistance in the calculation of non-compliance penalties and provides technical assistance to recipients to resolve the non-compliances identified.
  
  

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree
• 3 years of experience in grants management