Accountant

This position is located under the United States Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Philadelphia Regional Office.

• Serves in a senior capacity in the development and coordination of various accounting, financial management, and administrative functions within the agency.

• Reviews and evaluates existing finance and accounting policies, standard and procedures to develop improved working processes.

• Serves as an agency expert of statutes, regulations, policies and standard operating procedures for program area pertaining to a full range of issues including highly complex and unusual issues.

• Manages a grant portfolio within assigned program area(s) of high complexity, scope and impact, and conducts the day-to-day fiscal management for the grants within the grant portfolio.

• Interprets Federal requirements and procedures to grantees to assist them to comply with Federal requirements.

• Promote communication, coordination, cooperation, and mutual understanding between program participates, stakeholders, and the civilian community, as applicable.

• Prepares and deliver presentations to various internal and external audiences on financial and administrative matters.

• Exercise positive interpersonal relationships with program participants and stakeholders through the use of tact and diplomacy to resolve issues or conflicts between groups with different objectives and needs.

• Reviews a variety of financial reports, analyzes and validates financial data, and resolves accounting discrepancies in reported data.