Grant Financial Analyst - Real-Time Dashboards & ROI

Bankers Financial Corporation; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bankers Financial Corporation is seeking a Grant Financial Analyst to serve as the principal financial and grant analyst for a DHS grant. The role monitors, reconciles, and analyzes grant funding from award through expenditure to ensure financial accountability, regulatory compliance, and accurate representation of grant execution across participating sectors, SAAs, and local law enforcement agencies.

The position develops financial dashboards, expenditure analyses, forecasting models, and

Responsibilities

• Analyze approved grant awards by sector and participating agency.
• Validate approved budgets against actual expenditures.
• Monitor burn rates and remaining funding balances.
• Track expenditures throughout the grant performance period.
• Identify funding variances and potential overruns.
• Develop financial forecasts based on operational trends.
• Ensure expenditures remain within approved grant categories.
• Recommend funding reallocations when authorized.
• Conduct Comprehensive Reconciliation Of Financial Information Between DHS approved grant awards, SAA allocations, county grant offices, participating law enforcement agencies, vendor invoices, overtime reimbursement requests, and financial management systems.
• Ensure financial records remain synchronized across all organizations supporting the grant.
• Analyze Operational Expenditures Including overtime costs, personnel utilization, patrol activity, fuel expenditures, vehicle mileage, equipment purchases, training costs, travel expenses, administrative costs, and technology expenditures.
• Compare expenditures against operational outputs to evaluate grant effectiveness and financial efficiency.
• Develop Executive Financial Reporting Including grant obligation reports, expenditure summaries, burn-rate analyses, funding forecasts, remaining balance reports, cost-per-operation metrics, cost-per-encounter analyses, agency expenditure comparisons, sector financial dashboards, and executive briefings.
• Utilize an application to correlate financial expenditures with operational performance by measuring cost per encounter, cost per patrol hour, comparing overtime expenditures to operational outcomes, evaluating operational efficiency, tracking agency utilization, measuring grant return on investment, identifying spending trends, and supporting future grant planning and budget development.
• The core mission is to ensure that every dollar approved under a DHS grant program is accurately tracked, reconciled, analyzed, and reported from federal award through local expenditure, providing financial transparency across DHS, SAAs and participating law enforcement agencies, ensuring auditable and compliant activity throughout the grant life cycle.

Job description

Bankers Financial Corporation is seeking a Grant Financial Analyst to serve as the principal financial and grant analyst for a DHS grant. The role monitors, reconciles, and analyzes grant funding from award through expenditure to ensure financial accountability, regulatory compliance, and accurate representation of grant execution across participating sectors, SAAs, and local law enforcement agencies.

The position develops financial dashboards, expenditure analyses, forecasting models, and