Director of Sponsored Program - Accounting

Overview

Responsibilities

Provide leadership, strategic direction and support for the sponsored program accounting function. Maintain adequate systems of internal controls, compliance with regulatory requirements and ensure reliability of data, information and financial reporting.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Leadership and Strategic Direction: Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction for the sponsored program accounting function, aligning it with the university's overall financial goals and objectives.

2. Compliance and Regulatory Oversight: Ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and sponsor guidelines (e.g., OMB Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), NIH Grants Policy Statement), staying abreast of changes in regulations and implementing necessary adjustments to maintain compliance.

3. Financial Reporting Management: Oversee the management of sponsored programs financial reporting, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and completeness in filing required reports to sponsors. This includes overseeing the preparation of financial statements, budgets, and forecasts related to sponsored projects.

4. Billing and Collection Management: Direct the billing and collection processes for sponsored program projects, conducting thorough analysis of key operating metrics to optimize revenue generation and minimize delays in payment.

5. Receivables Management: Manage the collection activities of sponsored program receivables, conducting valuation analysis to ensure accurate reporting of receivables and timely resolution of outstanding balances.

6. Facilities and Administrative Cost Rate Preparation: Lead the preparation of Thomas Jefferson University's proposal for facilities and administrative cost rate, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to ensure accuracy and compliance with sponsor requirements.

7. Audit Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison with auditors for both the annual financial statement audit and OMB Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) Single Audit, facilitating audit processes and ensuring timely submission of required documentation.

8. Audit Report Preparation: Oversee the preparation of all reports related to audits of sponsored programs, including the Schedule of Expenditures on Federal Awards, ensuring accuracy and compliance with audit standards.

9. Enterprise Information Systems Management: Act as the functional leader on the use of enterprise information systems for grant accounting, overseeing processes related to accurate revenue recognition and indirect cost allocations.

10. Stakeholder Interaction: Interact effectively with co-workers, visitors, and other staff members, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment consistent with the values of Thomas Jefferson University.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required with concentration preferred in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or related business degree; Master’s degree preferred in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or related business degree.

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred,

Certified Research Administrator (CRA) preferred.

5+ years of related management experience in a Healthcare/Academic or Research Institute setting

7 to 10+ years of progressive experience in sponsored program accounting, research financial administration, and/or grant accounting

Closing Statement

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.

• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value

• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.