Financial & Grants Analyst

St. Joseph Center; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Benefits package

Job summary

St. Joseph Center seeks an experienced Financial & Grants Analyst to support budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and organizational planning across grants and contracts.

This role partners with Finance, Programs, Development, and Compliance to ensure funding is budgeted, utilized, and reported accurately. Reporting to the CFO, the ideal candidate translates financial data into actionable insights for leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• Approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience in nonprofit finance, financial analysis, grants accounting, contract finance, accounting, or related work.
• Experience with budgets, financial reporting, reconciliations, variance analysis, grants, government contracts, restricted funding, or program-based budgets.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a complex environment.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to colleagues and leaders outside of Finance.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor budgets, spending, revenue, receivables, and projections across an assigned portfolio of grants, contracts, and restricted funding.
• Review funding requirements and support invoicing, reimbursement requests, fiscal reporting, reconciliations, and grant closeouts.
• Identify potential over- or underspending, funding concerns, and upcoming reporting or renewal requirements.
• Support program, department, grant, and organizational budgeting, forecasting, and financial projections.
• Prepare budget-to-actual reporting and analyze variances, financial trends, staffing costs, funding utilization, and other key drivers.
• Provide financial analysis and scenario modeling to support planning and informed decision-making.
• Serve as a Finance partner to assigned programs and departments, helping leaders understand budgets, funding restrictions, and financial performance.
• Participate in financial reviews and provide clear guidance on spending trends, variances, and emerging risks.
• Support financial planning for new programs, contract renewals, funding changes, and other business needs.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure grants and contracts are accurately reflected in financial records.
• Prepare or support journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, reconciliations, and grant-related accounting activities.
• Research and resolve discrepancies across financial, payroll, grant, and program data.
• Maintain accurate, organized, and audit-ready fiscal documentation.
• Support financial audits, Single Audits, funder monitoring, and other fiscal reviews.
• Monitor compliance with funding requirements and financial policies and escalating significant risks or potential compliance concerns.
• Prepare financial reports, dashboards, and summaries for Finance and program leadership.
• Develop and maintain standardized tools, trackers, and documentation that strengthen financial and grant management.
• Identify opportunities to improve forecasting, reimbursement, reporting, and integration of financial and program data.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

• Compensation: USD 80,000 - USD 85,000 - yearly

Company Description

Background

Since 1976, St. Joseph Center has been meeting the needs of low-income and homeless individuals and families in Venice, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, and surrounding communities. The Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that assists people without regard for religious affiliation or lack thereof through comprehensive case management and integrated social service programs. The Center enjoys broad-based community support as well as a sponsored relationship with its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. St. Joseph Center serves approximately 6,000 individuals annually.

Brief Description of Principal Activities

Multifaceted intervention, prevention, and education services are carried out at four sites on the Westside of Los Angeles. St. Joseph Center’s integrated programs provide clients with concentrated and coordinated access to services according to the nature of their needs.

Job Description

St. Joseph Center is seeking an experienced Financial & Grants Analyst to support the financial management of our programs, grants, and contracts while contributing to budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and organizational planning.

This role partners across Finance, Programs, Development, Compliance, and other teams to help ensure funding is accurately budgeted, appropriately used, properly reported, and incorporated into financial decision-making.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the ideal candidate combines strong financial and analytical skills with experience managing grants or government-funded programs and can translate financial information into practical insights for leaders across the organization.

What You'll Do

Grants & Contract Financial Management

• Manage and monitor budgets, spending, revenue, receivables, and projections across an assigned portfolio of grants, contracts, and restricted funding.
• Review funding requirements and support invoicing, reimbursement requests, fiscal reporting, reconciliations, and grant closeouts.
• Identify potential over- or underspending, funding concerns, and upcoming reporting or renewal requirements.
• Support program, department, grant, and organizational budgeting, forecasting, and financial projections.
• Prepare budget-to-actual reporting and analyze variances, financial trends, staffing costs, funding utilization, and other key drivers.
• Provide financial analysis and scenario modeling to support planning and informed decision-making.

Program & Department Partnership

• Serve as a Finance partner to assigned programs and departments, helping leaders understand budgets, funding restrictions, and financial performance.
• Participate in financial reviews and provide clear guidance on spending trends, variances, and emerging risks.
• Support financial planning for new programs, contract renewals, funding changes, and other business needs.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure grants and contracts are accurately reflected in financial records.
• Prepare or support journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, reconciliations, and grant-related accounting activities.
• Research and resolve discrepancies across financial, payroll, grant, and program data.

Compliance, Audit & Monitoring

• Maintain accurate, organized, and audit-ready fiscal documentation.
• Support financial audits, Single Audits, funder monitoring, and other fiscal reviews.
• Monitor compliance with funding requirements and financial policies and escalating significant risks or potential compliance concerns.

Reporting & Process Improvement

• Prepare financial reports, dashboards, and summaries for Finance and program leadership.
• Develop and maintain standardized tools, trackers, and documentation that strengthen financial and grant management.
• Identify opportunities to improve forecasting, reimbursement, reporting, and integration of financial and program data.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience in nonprofit finance, financial analysis, grants accounting, contract finance, accounting, or related work.
• Experience with budgets, financial reporting, reconciliations, variance analysis, grants, government contracts, restricted funding, or program-based budgets.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a complex environment.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to colleagues and leaders outside of Finance.

Preferred Experience

Experience in nonprofit, human-services, housing, healthcare, behavioral health, or another government-funded environment is preferred. Familiarity with city, county, state, or federal grants and contracts; reimbursement-based funding; nonprofit accounting; Uniform Guidance; or financial and grants-management systems is also helpful.

Additional Information

Our Values

Dignity | Community | Integrity | Partnership | Social Justice | Radical Care

Regular use of a computer and HR technology platforms is required, along with the ability to manage detailed records and sustained periods of screen-based work. The role follows a hybrid work arrangement with regular onsite presence and occasional travel among Los Angeles-area locations. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions of the role.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, walk, stoop, talk, hear, reach above and below shoulders; use hand and finger dexterity, keyboarding and making and receiving telephone calls. The employee may be required on occasion to lift and or carry up to 20 lbs.

EEO:

SJC (St. Joseph Center) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics or status as a veteran. In addition to federal law requirements, SJC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Excellent Benefits package available.