Accountant

ND Health and Human Services; North Dakota; Remote; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

ND Health and Human Services is seeking an Accountant to work remote within North Dakota. You will partner with program administrators to manage budgets, track expenditures, and ensure compliance with state and federal policies.

In this role you will review payments, monitor spend-downs and grants, prepare quarterly cash-flow statements, and provide budget reports to leaders. You'll also contribute to biennial budget building and translate accounting concepts for non-financial stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in accounting, finance, business administration, or related field.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and their application.
• 1 year of professional accounting experience including budgets, grant management, fund tracking, and related areas.

Responsibilities

• Manage budgets and expenditures; ensure compliance with state and federal policies.
• Review payments to ensure costs are charged correctly.
• Monitor spend-downs, contracts and grant reconciliation for compliance.
• Prepare quarterly cash-flow statements.
• Provide program leaders with budget reports to support decisions.
• Contribute to the biennial budget-building process.
• Communicate accounting concepts clearly to non-financial leaders.

Skills

Budgeting

Grant Management

Cost Accounting

Uniform Guidance

Procurement

Auditing

Accounts Payable/Receivable

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/business

Job description

HHS Finance Division is seeking an Accountant to work remote within ND. Contribute your accounting expertise to a hands-on accounting role where your skills directly influence the success of vital health and human services programs as an Accountant for ND Health and Human Services (HHS). As an Accountant for HHS, you will partner with program administrators to manage budgets, track expenditures, and ensure compliance with both state and federal policies. You will review payments to ensure costs are charged correctly, as well as monitor spend-downs, contracts and grant reconciliation for compliance and prepare quarterly cash-flow statements. Also, you will provide program leaders budget reports to help them make effective decisions. Furthermore, you will be involved in the biennial budget building process. To thrive in this position, you must be mission-driven and find satisfaction in knowing that your work helps improve lives and ensures resources are used effectively throughout the state. You must have accounting experience in the public or non-profit sector that demonstrates your ability to analyze impact of laws and regulations changes, as well as mastery in interpreting frequently changing policies, grant requirement, and state and federal statutes. You will need to have a history of learning new approaches and methodologies that can be applied to your work. Additionally, you must be able to comprehend financial systems to clearly communicate accounting concepts to non-financial leaders so they can make sound decisions. Most importantly, you will need to maintain focus and productivity amidst frequent time sensitive requests and changes.

To Be Considered For This Position, You Must Have

• A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a closely related field
• A strong understanding of accounting principles and how to apply them
• One (1) year of professional accounting experience which includes working with budgets, cost accounting, grant management, fund tracking, Uniform Guidance, contract management, auditing, procurement, accounts payable and/or accounts receivable.

Location

This position may work remotely from within North Dakota with the ability to travel to Bismarck, ND for meetings.

About HHS

ND HHS strives to make North Dakota the healthiest state in the nation by reinforcing the foundations of wellbeing: physical, economic, and behavioral. The keys to success are the 2800 committed, team members who are guided by a simple but powerful belief: when we lead with light, we create systems and services rooted in hope, clarity, and possibility. Their work is supported with more than $6 billion in funding from nearly 400 different federal, state, and special sources.

To succeed in this role, you must lead with LIGHT - leading with hope, instilling purpose and meaning, galvanizing gratitude, honoring health, and talking, walking and teaching civility, kindness and love for all.

About Team ND

\"Far and away the best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.\" - Theodore Roosevelt

More than 7,500 talented, hard-working people across sixty-three agencies have come together as Team North Dakota. At Team ND, we are driven to succeed through gratitude, humility, curiosity and courage. Our purpose is to empower people, improve lives, and inspire success. Join us in being legendary.

Total Rewards

The State of North Dakota is committed to providing team members with a strong and competitive rewards package that support you, your health and your family.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The Department of Health & Human Services does not offer or provide sponsorships.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

The State of North Dakota and this hiring agency do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), genetics, religion, age or disability in employment or the provisions of services and complies with the provisions of the North Dakota Human Rights Act.

As an employer, the State of North Dakota prohibits smoking in all places of state employment in accordance with N.D.C.C. Sect. 23-12-10.