Staff Consultant - Grants Management

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax, and business advisory firms, with approximately 450 partners and 4,500 employees across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective; to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today and position them for success tomorrow.

Our clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups, global public firms, and middle-market companies, as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. We are also engaged by the attorneys, financial professionals, bankers, and investors who serve these clients.

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EisnerAmper is seeking a Staff Consultant - Grants Management to assist with federal, state, and local government grants management, construction management, housing and infrastructure compliance and delivery of services. Provides client support with monitoring state and federal grants including project eligibility, reporting and recipient and subrecipient monitoring.

What Work You Will be Responsible For:

• Participates in grants management projects, and multi-disciplinary tasks within scope of program or project.
• Develops competency in federal and state policy, specifically federal funding requirements under 2 CFR 200
• Assists with the development and monitoring of proper grants management procedures required in all phases of the grant lifecycle.
• Delivers client services including, but not limited to Monitoring grants, including uniform guidance recipient monitoring, and sub-recipient monitoring.
• Analyze applicants or recipient’s budgets to ensure costs are reasonable, necessary, allocable, and otherwise allowable, and within expenditure limits.
• Monitor all phases of grants and agreements for the award life cycle.
• Monitor award recipients for compliance with award terms and conditions.
• Provide guidance to award recipients and program officials on the proper application of Federal regulations and agency policies and processes.
• Review applicable award documents to ensure compliance with administrative, financial, programmatic, policy, and legal regulations and requirements.
• Assists with the implementation of and ensures adherence to proper workflow, processes, and procedures.
• Ensures that the scope of work is completed to the satisfaction of the client and key stakeholders, while simultaneously ensuring that quality, financial, risk management, business and policy expectations are met.
• Communicates and works with the team on a variety of issues potentially including progress and status, scope, schedule and budget as well as progress of deliverables, client reviews, technical input, and comment resolution.
• Provides support on other consulting projects, not related to grants management, as necessary.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, public administration, construction management, emergency management, or a related field, or equivalent combination is preferred.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience in grants management, policy analysis, project management, and previous experience in consulting and advisory services.
• Demonstrated experience working on federally funded projects related to infrastructure, transit, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) as well as other funding programs is preferred.
• Experience with the full grant lifecycle from pre-award, post-award through closeout on federally funded programs
• Proven ability to review and validate project applications, supporting documentation, and inspection reports to ensure completeness, eligibility, and compliance with applicable policies.
• Ability to identify and research funding opportunities and interpret and understand grant application guidelines and requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or grants management professional certifications preferred.

Other Duties:

• May assist co-workers in the completion of tasks and assignments to ensure continuity of service and demonstrating teamwork skills. Actively supports teamwork throughout the organization.
• May periodically travel and work from different company locations.
• May be required to work overtime, and/or on weekends as needed.
• Work Environment: Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully with or without reasonable accommodations. The work environment is considered to be that of a typical business/office operation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.