Research Accounting Manager (Hybrid)

Job Details

Are you looking for a career opportunity working for a healthcare organization that is based on excellence and love?

ChristianaCare is one of the country's most dynamic healthcare organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible, and lowering healthcare costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,299 beds), a free-standing emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care, and women's health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute and was rated by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation's Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. It is continually ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the Best Hospital. With the unique CareVio data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

ChristianaCare Offers

• Full Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, etc.
• Two retirement planning offerings, including 403(b) with company contributions
• Generous paid time off with annual roll-over and opportunities to cash out
• 12-week paid parental leave
• Incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more!

About This Position

ChristianaCare is searching for a Research Accounting Manager to provide leadership and accounting support for all operations within Research and Grants. This position will ensure post award activities are being conducted in accordance with Federal and State regulations, contractual terms and conditions, and institutional policies and procedures.

The Research Accounting Manager will also be responsible for the Cost Transfer Policy and procedures to ensure allowability and timeliness of salary and non-salary expenditures related to sponsored programs. This position generates monthly salary allocations and entries for approximately 30 hospital employed physicians serving as key personnel to federally funded programs as well as assist the Research Finance Director with oversight of frontline project managers and the Research Finance team member activities related to post award controls and compliance.

Skillsets and experience needed to be successful in this role are as follows:

• Accounting or finance background
• Process improvement
• Pro-active and independent thinking
• Grant experience / familiarity isn't required, but is highly preferred

Some responsibilities include......

Manages the overall processes for sponsored program cost transfers, including validating the allowability, allocability, and reasonableness of the transfer in accordance with federal and state regulations, sponsor policy, award terms and conditions, and ChristianaCare policy.

Creates all manual journal entries, accounting adjustments, and payroll accounting adjustments related to valid Cost Transfers in Workday.

Manages post award financial activities for all Federally Funded, prime awards, which includes completing the cumulative federal cash disbursement schedule, executing requests for direct deposits related to monthly invoicing at DHHS Payment Management System, and assisting RF leadership and grant managers with required Federal Financial Reports.

Manages post award aspects of the Workday Grants module of assigned department portfolios, including, but not limited to:

• creates and corrects Awards, assigns roles to Grants and Awards
• creates and maintains award plans
• creates and corrects personnel effort commitments on awards
• reviews allowability of expenses charged to grant IDs on award lines
• analyzes trial balance and profit and loss statements related to grant IDs and research cost centers for allowability of charges on sponsored programs
• creates and edit billing schedules
• creates invoices as well as invoice adjustments

Completes monthly allowability reviews for each sponsored program in assigned portfolio and provides analysis of questioned or unallowable costs to grant managers and principal investigators.

Prepares monthly salary over the cap journal entries as required by federal regulations and/or sponsor policy, which includes validating salary charges in Kronos on sponsored program Grant IDs and ensuring applicable cap rates are used.

Assists RF Director with annual external Uniform Guidance (UG) Audit, along with assisting auditors with compliance testing.

Assists RF Director with Workday updates, logging and developing solutions for Workday operational issues, and meeting customer needs as related to the Grants module.

Performs special audits, budget vs actual analyses, and program close-outs as requested by RF leadership or departments.

***** The full job specification will be provided during the interview process

Education and experience requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Management, Finance, or related field required ---or ---- Four years of Research and Grants experience in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in accounting or financial reporting required.
• Sponsored Program grant accounting experience preferred.

Post End DateMar 31, 2025

EEO Posting Statement

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.