Description:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage key financial components of the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) and the SMART Africa Research Center, in all stages of a sponsored project (pre/post award).
- Supports the investigator in submitting grants application and organizing all the administrative pieces, including but not limited to the development of detailed budgets. Coordinates all project financial activities, including overseeing budgets and budget justifications for new grant applications, continuing applications, and competitive renewals.
- Works on the various reports associated with the sponsored projects; reviews and finalizes Financial Status Reports and final report for federal and non-federal grants. Approves center purchases, reimbursements, travel, reviews consultant contracts, manages invoicing, etc.
- Develops and maintains a system for monitoring budget and alerting key stakeholders of deadlines. Including the development of spending plans and metrics associated with these plans in collaboration with the PIs’. Manage budgetary expenditures in coordination with center manager and/or Principal Investigator.
- Submits and process salary source change and cost allocation transactions.
- Reviews effort reporting forms and review quarterly statements from sponsored programs.
- Develops, implements, and monitors the Center financial strategic plan in collaboration with center director and/or principal investigator to determine financial strategic directions of Center and modify the Center operations to support those strategies.
- Acts as center liaison to Brown school administrative offices, University and external administrative offices.
- Works closely with the University Foundations Relations office in the pursuit of funding. Communicates and coordinates as necessary with multiple funders and their financial managers.
- Analyzes income and expenses, makes investigations and assemble reports to be used in planning and decision-making.
- Assists to process ICHAD cash account reconciliations timely.
- Will make sure the grant number and spend category are clearly labeled and verified for each transaction on the bank reconciliation documents received from the personnel in Uganda.
- Makes sure all documents are archived in a folder for review – bank reconciliations, receipts, payroll reports, bank statements - that pertain to each month.
- Works closely with the Brown School Director of Financial Operations (DFO) and the Associate Dean for Administration (ADA) on the development of financial projections for the Center and for the Brown School.
- Manages & prepares monthly grants expenditure projections & evaluate the general ledger reports for accuracy.
- Supports the school budgeting process as needed and collaborates in the development of internal reporting systems that can inform the budget process.
- Assists with pulling together real time data, developing and monitoring performance indicators and benchmarking, developing forecasting tools based on data from CFU, as well as internal data sources.
- Other duties as assigned.