Senior Accounting Coordinator - Grants and Contracts

Exceptional Dental; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties seeks a Senior Accounting Coordinator for grants and contracts. You will bridge federal grant rules with program needs, ensuring accurate grant drawdowns and compliant reporting.

You will own the grants accounting, budgets, and contract oversight, reporting to the CFO and supporting the agency’s anti-poverty mission in Lincoln, Nebraska. A bachelor’s degree in accounting or related coursework is preferred, with proven nonprofit

Qualifications

• Experience with grant or fund accounting in a nonprofit or similar setting.
• Fluent with nonprofit financial statements and Excel.
• Able to follow rigid deadlines and manage several grants at once without errors.
• Protect confidentiality and integrity of fiscal and client data.
• Explain grant requirements clearly to program managers and work across teams.
• Knowledge of OMB Uniform Guidance is a real plus.
• MIP accounting software knowledge is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own the grant money: research and interpret grant regulations, ensure Uniform Guidance compliance, and perform grant drawdowns accurately and on time.
• Build the budgets and reports: lead creation of grant budgets and financial narratives for applications, and prepare required financial reports.
• Watch the contracts: create, interpret, and monitor program and agency contracts, ensuring compliance by delegates and contractors.
• Keep the books clean: reconcile general ledger accounts, prepare journal entries, monitor daily AP/AR/GL activity.
• Stand up at audit time: gather audit data, prepare workpapers, and assist CFO in building the agency budget.
• Identify and implement process improvements; cross-train with peers to avoid single points of failure.

Skills

Grants accounting

Excel

Nonprofit accounting

Deadline driven

Communication

Discretion/Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Coursework in accounting

Tools

MIP accounting software

Job description

Senior Accounting Coordinator

Grants and Contracts

Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties

Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties is looking for a Senior Accounting Coordinator for grants and contracts. This is the person who stands between complex federal grant rules and the programs that depend on them, and makes sure the money is right. If you know nonprofit grant accounting well enough to walk in and go, and you like knowing your precision is what keeps the work funded, keep reading.

What You Will Actually Do

You report to the CFO and own the accounting side of our grants and contracts, about seventy percent of the role, with core accounting and process work making up the rest. On a given week, you might:

• Own the grant money: You research and interpret federal, state, local, and private grant regulations, ensure we remain compliant with Uniform Guidance, and perform grant drawdowns accurately and on time.
• Build the budgets and reports: You lead the creation of grant budgets and financial narratives for applications, and prepare the financial reports that funders rely on.
• Watch the contracts: You create, interpret, and monitor program and agency contracts, and you ensure delegates and contractors comply with the rules.
• Keep the books clean: You reconcile general ledger accounts, prepare journal entries, and keep an eye on daily AP, AR, and GL activity.
• Stand up at audit time: You gather audit data, prepare workpapers, and help the CFO and Senior Accountant build the agency budget.
• Make it better: You spot the clunky process and improve it, and you cross-train with peers so the team never has a single point of failure.

Who We Are Looking For

You do not need to have held this exact title. You do need to recognize yourself in most of this:

• You know grants. You have worked with grant or fund accounting in a nonprofit or similar setting, and federal grant compliance is familiar ground, not a foreign language.
• You are fluent with the numbers: You read nonprofit financial statements comfortably, reconcile and post accurately, and your Excel is genuinely strong.
• You have hit rigid deadlines before: You can follow directions, then run independently, carrying several grant deadlines at once without letting a detail slip.
• You are precise and discreet: You protect the confidentiality and validity of fiscal and client data as a matter of habit.
• You communicate like a person: You can explain a grant requirement to a program manager without making their eyes glaze over, and you work well across a team.
• You bring the credentials: A bachelor’s degree or coursework in accounting or a related field is preferred, along with experience in nonprofit grants and accounting. Knowledge of OMB Uniform Guidance and MIP accounting software is a real plus.

The Honest Details

• Status: Full-time, exempt, professional. The department is Fiscal and reports to the CFO.
• The work: Normal office conditions, primarily desk and computer work, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• The pace: Firm recurring deadlines and several grants in motion at once. This role rewards people who like order and get satisfaction from things tying out to the penny.

Why This One Matters

Plenty of accounting jobs balance a ledger. This one funds an anti-poverty mission. Every clean drawdown and compliant report is the reason a program stays open and a family gets served. If you want your precision to add up to something bigger than a balanced account, this is where that happens.

Our mission: we partner with our community in fearless pursuit of anti-poverty solutions so we all have the opportunity to live well.

Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, sex, age, or any other status protected by applicable federal or state law.