● Substantial expertise and practical experience in grants financial management, covering financial and post-award management, financial reporting, and pre-award proposal budgeting.● Utilize sound judgment and analytical thinking with a working knowledge of sponsor institutions.● Manage departmental financial activities, including annual budget reviews, monitoring scholarship funds, course fees, donations, service center funds; oversight of procurements, payroll, labor reallocation, purchasing orders, reimbursements, traveling, and equipment inventory.● Provide comprehensive support to faculty members, facilitating post-award grant management. Review and reconcile F&A return funds and distribute them to PI, Co-PIs, and their respective department and college.● Perform various complex analytical activities to ensure compliance with various accounting principles, sponsor requirements, federal and state guidelines, and institutional policies.● Monitor sponsored award spending for allowability and compliance with federal and sponsor regulations. Maintain accurate personnel expenditures and effort reporting on grants.● Provide guidance and training to other business services team staff. Troubleshoot complianceissues and cost allocation discrepancies.

Post-Award Grants and Contracts management:● Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for federal research grants, state grants,and consortiums. Ensure accuracy in tracking revenue and expenses.● Monitor for compliance with university policies and procedures, ensuring that appropriatespending, funding sources, and supporting documentation are met.● Analysis and monitor grant indirect cost allocation; Process and finalize grant closeout and generalledger closing.● Collaborate with directors and departments to facilitate the smooth execution of onsite internal andexternal audits. Provide financial support with write‐off account financial reviews.

● Analyze financial situation of department funding reports with expense projections for making timely recommendations to the PI and department supervisor concerning budgetary limitations, deficiencies, controls to ensure complete understanding and compliance with basic Federal and State operating requirements.● Record financial transaction timely to the general ledger, reconciliation of funding accounts and accurate monthly, quarterly and year-end financial close.● Assist Principal Investigators, and other research staff with proposal preparation, proposal set up in WISPER, proposal routing; Develop budgets in accordance with PI needs. ● Develop, maintain, and apply knowledge of complex granting agency and university accounting policies, travel and purchasing regulations to ensure funds are expended for each budgetary category in accordance with the policies governing them.● Review daily accounting transactions. Process daily transactions online using SFS, WISDM, WISPER, MDS-PAT, and PVS according to UW regulations and guidelines. ● Serve as site manager for purchasing cards holders, overseeing bi-weekly P-card funding reallocation.● Develop and maintain fleet financial management system using Access and generate monthly reports.