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Budget Specialist
Location
District Of Columbia + 1 moreAll locations: District Of Columbia | Washington
Posted
10 hours ago
Salary
$75K - $80K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Budget Specialist
American Farmland Trust
• Work in coordination with the Grants Management division in the preparation of proposal budgets and related timelines, ensuring alignment with financial policies, procedures, coding, and on-time completion. • Prepare annual budget as well as projection budgets (reforecasting) • For reforecasting, calculate year-end projections based on YTD actuals. • Collaborate with other AFT teams during work planning. • Ensure that all appropriate support services are covered in budgets. • Implement budget policies and guidelines. • Develop models or suggestions for expenditures to optimize budget adherence. • Produce monthly financial statements and related analysis, including staff hours reports. • Assist in the review of expense contracts for budget feasibility and ensure procurement guidelines are followed. • Assist with the annual financial statement audit. • Responsible for loading the budget and grant budgets into the ERP. • Report customization and ad hoc analysis. • Dashboard reporting development.
Job Requirements
- Thorough understanding of grant accounting functional areas, overhead and reimbursement principles.
- Should have prior federal award budget management experience and know nonprofit accounting standards.
- Should be able to perform financial analysis and explain steps for resolution.
- Should be proficient with Office365, SharePoint, & Teams with advanced knowledge of Excel functions.
- Strong verbal, written, analytical and organizational skills.
- High level of ethics, integrity, transparency, and trustworthiness.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with individuals, teams, and committees.
- Ability to translate financial concepts to individuals at all levels in the organization – including non-finance employees.
- Must have familiarity with federal & foundation funding arrangements and related items such as match requirements and overhead limitations.
- Desire to engage and learn from fellow colleagues and about American Farmland Trust.
- Where applicable, extensive experience working within a remote or hybrid environment and amongst a distributed workforce.
- Experience with prioritizing competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-starter who takes initiative to problem solve.
- Must possess strong technical skills involving various financial software such as Martus, Sage Intacct or other similar budgeting and ERP programs.
Benefits
- Medical & Prescription Coverage
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Company Paid Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability (LTD)
- Voluntary Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – Healthcare & Dependent Care
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401k Plan
- Sick Leave: Regular full-time employees accrue 13 “sick days” per year.
- Vacation Leave: Accrue 15 days during the first year increasing by one day per year to 20 days per year maximum.
- Holidays: AFT observes twelve fixed holidays and a week between Christmas and New Years off during the year (all offices closed) plus a choice of up to three (depending on hiring month) floating holidays.
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