Grants Accounting and Compliance Specialist

🔥 46 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $85k - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧾 Accounting Manager

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Vander Weele Group

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2003

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

Consulting • Education • Human Services

Vander Weele Group is a firm that specializes in grants oversight solutions for federal and state programs. They provide comprehensive services including grants management, monitoring, training, and compliance assistance, enabling organizations to operate efficiently while managing large-scale grant programs. Their expertise includes risk assessments, fraud prevention, and programmatic monitoring, ensuring that clients meet regulatory requirements while maximizing the impact of their funding.

📋 Description

• Support compliance monitoring initiatives and perform rigorous compliance reviews • Review and sample expense reimbursements for equipment, supplies, and personnel against Uniform Guidance and applicable laws • Produce clear, defensible testing reports • Participate in single-entity risk assessments by analyzing workflows, organizational capacity, and process documentation • Interview stakeholders to mitigate noncompliance, fraud, waste, and abuse risks • Test processes and internal controls to verify alignment with federal grant rules and project requirements • Draft actionable recommendations addressing auditing or monitoring deficiencies • Help develop monitoring tools and compliance matrices • Deliver positive, responsive client service • Monitor compliance with federal grant rules, regulations, state statutes, and procedures • Review, sample, and test financial and operational data using various sampling methodologies • Identify allowable versus unallowable expenditures • Draft technical recommendations and comprehensive reports summarizing testing results and audit findings within project timelines • Collaborate with management to implement solutions improving oversight • Attend project and client meetings • Manage work across multiple client assignments

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting • CPA and CFE preferred • Dual CPA/CGMS certification is a significant plus • At least 7 years of experience performing internal/external audits, grants monitoring, compliance, or regulatory review work • Full grants management lifecycle experience and consulting experience a plus • Strong working knowledge of Federal grants and the Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) • HUD/CBG/DR/NSP/RHD/TAX CREDITS a plus • Outstanding critical thinking and academic-level writing skills • Ability to synthesize complex fiscal data into written recommendations • Ability to work in a team-oriented environment • Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently under strict deadlines • Constructive communication with clients and stakeholders