Accountant - Spons Prj Accounting

The Sponsor Project Accountant is responsible for ensuring that all transactions charged to grants and contracts are allowable and properly approved according to the Sponsor’s and School’s policies and procedures.  

• Review grants and contracts portfolio.
• Analyze grant budgets of government agencies 
• Review and approve all transactions for each grant/contract according to the Sponsor's and School's policies and procedures.
• Compare salary/effort charged to grants/contracts to approved award budget.
• Work closely with Sponsored Project Supervisor, administrator/PI of the grant, accounts payable, payroll and School Accounting to facilitate timely and accurate transaction processing.
• Ensure all cost transfers are properly explained and documented according to the School's Cost Transfer Policy.
• Ensure any mandatory cost sharing requirements are properly documented when the FSR is prepared.
• Ensure cost allocations between grants for closely related work are allocated based on a reasonable and approved methodology.
• Identify instances where prior approvals are necessary. Work with supervisor to process any necessary prior approvals.
• For non-letter of credit grants/contracts, prepare bills according to the grants billing cycle.
• Prepare financial status reports required by the Sponsor.
• Ensure properly approved time and effort reports exist for all personnel charged to grants/contracts when FSRs are prepared.
• Responsible for grant account closing process.
• Review accounts and prepare journal entries to correct errors.
• Ensure monthly animal charges are consistent with the approved species. Work with CCMS, IACUC and PI/Administrator when necessary to correct incorrect charges.
• Other special projects/responsibilities assigned as needed

• Bachelors degree in Accounting.
• 0-1 year experience in Accounting.

 

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Sur