This position will be responsible for sponsored research post award activities and monitoring laboratory financials for individual research laboratories. Briefly this includes providing the faculty that they support with accurate and timely financial reports. This individual will assist in ensuring that costs are properly allocated to the various accounts, assist in effort adjustments when necessary, be responsible for forecasting, developing spending plans and assisting the department and faculty in managing and conforming to various spending policies and guidelines.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

assist faculty in generating and maintaining up-to-date other support documents
assist faculty in preparing award budgets and justifications
assist in setting up subawards and subcontracts
assist in navigating various research administration processes such as conflict of interest, IRB or IACUC approvals, subaward set up and grant account setup
responsible for tracking all post award processes and ensuring that account numbers and subaward documentation is processed in a timely manner
responsible for ensuring that all expenditures on grant accounts or other funding sources available for a particular faculty member or laboratory are correctly allocated, allowable and meet all of UAB and various sponsor rules and regulations
responsible for rebudgeting requests
assist in preparing progress reports and financial reports
assist in ensuring that spending on accounts takes place in a timely manner and that any errors are corrected within an appropriate timeline
assist in closing out grants and accounts
assist in generating final reports
assist in timely invoicing of sponsors
ensure that funds received are allocated to the correct account and accounted for correctly on various reports
responsible for providing faculty with accurate reports of spending and forecasting
responsible for staying up to date on UAB and sponsor rules and regulations around all post award, financials
assist with ensuring that personnel salaries and fringe are being appropriately charged to accounts

Key Skills

interpersonal skills
ability to switch rapidly from one task to another
organized
some understanding of science or basic research
ability to set your own deadlines and meet them

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Work Characteristics

Preferences On the job training is available, but candidates with prior experience with UAB post award, IRAP, Oracle financials, HR, BA4, and NIH grant management are preferred.

Requirements

familiar with NIH grant post-award processes
ability to work well with others in a fast-paced environment
ability to work on own and figure out how to do it on your own
great communication skills
written and verbal
extensive knowledge and understanding of excel specifically ability to do pivot tables
excellent reading comprehension skills
ability to understand and perform complex tasks