Department: Col of Humanities and Soc Science
Classification: Financial Svcs Specialist 2
Job Category: Classified Staff
Job Type: Full-Time
Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk)
Location: Fairfax, VA
Workplace Type: Hybrid Eligible
Pay Band: 05
Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience
Criminal Background Check: Yes

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Experience (typically 3 years) in sponsored programs administration in post-award research support or related field;
• Demonstrated experience in research financial management, to include allocating effort (labor), processing non-labor expenses on sponsored projects and financial reconciliation;
• Strong financial and accounting aptitude required, particularly in financial research administration;
• Knowledge of federal rules and regulations relating to research grant and/or contract activity;
• Knowledge of policies, processes and offices related to grant/contract post award management; and
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Research administration certification;
• Research administration experience in higher education; and
• Experience with Banner Financial (or similar system) and/or research related software systems.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH RELATED DUTIES

• Acts as a subject matter expert in managing research activities within CHSS, solving problems, providing guidance and answering post award questions as needed for PIs and departments/center administrators;
• Works with CHSS Pre-award, PIs and OSP to review and edit current PI effort information as needed for proposal and financial report submissions. Provides assistance or coordinates assistance as needed with other research support activities such as export control, IRB, IACUC, etc.;
• Maintains and keeps current knowledge of university, sponsor, state and federal guidelines related to sponsored award activities to ensure appropriate research support;
• Additional duties in support of overall CHSS Finance and HR activities:
• Reviews and enters change labor allocations (funding change forms) regardless of funding source into Banner/Self-Service for approval Provides ad hoc reporting and training/support on various systems to departments as needed (MicroStrategy, Banner/Self-Service, RAMP);
• Assists with and provides subject matter support in resolving department issues with processing fiscal transactions (to include coordinating resolutions with the Fiscal Services team);
• Provides recommendations and supports as needed for addressing finance and HR business operational needs (regardless of funding source); and
• Assists with maintaining finance and HR resources for the CHSS Finance and HR team and CHSS departments (including document management of shared folders and maintaining the CFHR website resources) - (Essential)