Goodwill NYNJ

Jr Financial Analyst – Grants and Contracts

Position Summary

Come join a growing team with opportunities to drive transformative change!

Reporting to the Senior Fiscal Officer, the Jr. Financial Analyst is a key role within the Financial Planning and Reporting team which goes beyond the transactional aspects of grant and contract management. In addition to supporting the Organization’s grant and contract management responsibilities, you will also continually look for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective while helping to advocate and lead the implementation of best practices.

About the candidate

Are you an energetic, collaborative, and proactive problem solver, with a powerful sense of ownership over your work? Are you a natural leader, who loves finding new and different ways of doing things? Do you want to develop and expand your grants and contract skills in a dynamic environment?

If so, we'd love to meet you!

What You’ll Do:

• Support the implementation of best practices by contributing to the Planning and Reporting team’s improvement efforts that that increase value created and efficiency of work.
• Prepare financial reporting, dashboard and forecasts, which provide leading indicators of operational and financial performance.
• Prepare budgets, financial analyses, revenue claims/submissions, funder procurement documentation and other required reporting.
• Perform grant and contract related accounting, including cash receipts coding, administering funds for petty cash, metrocards and client vouchers, preparing monthly close reconciliations and schedules required to support the internal/external reporting process and external audits.
• Stay abreast of fiscal and programmatic requirements and other topics impacting grants and contracts administration.
• Perform ad hoc reporting and analyses for management
• Engage in cross-training on departmental functions and work flexibly to assist other staff and/or fill in, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience as a self-starter, with a record of effectively taking initiative and delivering quality work on time.
• Dynamic, fast learner who is highly organized, analytical and a creative problem solver.
• A team player with effective communication and interpersonal skills, able to build trust internally and externally
• BS/BA Accounting, with 1+ years' experience in an NYS/NYC grants and contracts administration role preferred.

Join Goodwill NYNJ to be part of an innovative organization that values the people we serve as well as our employees who help us fulfill our mission each and every day! We employ a people centered approach. That means that while our mission focus is to empower individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work, we also strive to create an environment of wellbeing for our employees and their families. As a Goodwiller (that's what we call ourselves!) You'll get to enjoy the following benefits and more!

• Access to 3 different health plan options, with robust national networks, and no referrals
• Low-cost dental and vision coverage, as well as a great variety of voluntary benefits
• 1% Employer supplemental contributions to 401a and an additional 1% match to your 403(b) employee deferrals for eligible employees
• 15 vacation days, 6 personal days, 7.5 sick days and 10 holidays, for full-time employees in year 1. Our generous vacation package increases in subsequent years of employment
• Other employee discounts for travel, entertainment, mobile phone plans, etc.

We hope you will consider joining the Goodwill NYNJ team in our journey to empower our communities and our internal team.