Grant Account Manager

Grant Accounting Manager

Job Summary: Bring your financial expertise to a mission-driven organization. As part of MaineGeneral's Finance team, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the financial integrity of our grant-funded programs. This position is ideal for a detail-oriented professional who enjoys analyzing complex funding structures, partnering across departments, and making sure every dollar is used to advance our mission and community impact.

Job Description: What You'll Do: As the Grant Accounting Manager, you'll provide essential financial oversight for all grant-funded programs across the organization. This includes accounting, compliance, and reporting responsibilities throughout each award's lifecycle—from setup through final closeout. You'll play a key role in ensuring our grants and contracts are administered in full compliance with federal, state, and private funding requirements, while maximizing the use of awarded funds to support MaineGeneral's mission. In this role, you will:

• Analyze financial data related to grants and contracts to provide strategic guidance and recommendations that optimize the use of awarded funds and ensure compliance with funding requirements.
• Assist with the development and monitoring of grant budgets to ensure operations remain within budgeted limits and aligned with funder expectations.
• Support grant-funded departments in managing budgets, allocations, expenditures, and fund balances, ensuring fiscal accuracy and adherence to best practices.
• Navigate and maintain accounts across multiple funding and grant management systems (federal, state, and private platforms) to ensure accurate reporting, timely submissions, and compliance with funder requirements.
• Participate in internal and external audits and contribute to maintaining strong internal controls across all grant-related financial activities.

What You Bring: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; Master's degree preferred. Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification preferred. Experience in financial grant management required. Experience working with federal or state grant management systems preferred (e.g., PIMS or similar platforms). Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex funding streams simultaneously. Excellent attention to detail, with a commitment to accuracy and compliance in all financial reporting.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Scheduled Work Shift: Job Exempt: Yes

Benefits: Supporting all aspects of our employees' wellness – physical, emotional, and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.

Physical Wellness: We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs. Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents. A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.

Emotional Wellness: When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.

Financial Wellness: An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center. Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career. We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan. Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident. We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.

Career Mobility: Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440.