Overview
This role supports grant-funded work by serving as a financial backbone connecting fundraising, finance, and program teams. Responsibilities include building donor proposal budgets, managing the grant spending lifecycle, ensuring proper allocation and tracking of grant revenues/expenses, and providing compliance and audit support.
Responsibilities
- Grant Budget Development: Create comprehensive donor proposal budgets and lead financial reporting across the full grant lifecycle, ensuring alignment with donor guidelines and organizational priorities.
- Cost Allocation & Funding Map Management: Match and track grant revenues and expenses through the organization’s funding map to maximize fiscal sustainability and inform long-term financial strategy.
- Compliance & Audit Support: Conduct monthly grant expense reviews, oversee audit preparation, and ensure adherence to donor restrictions and internal financial policies.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as a financial liaison across Revenue, FP&A, Accounting, and Global Program teams—translating complex grant structures into clear guidance on budgets, coding, and cost categories.
- Process & Systems Improvement: Identify workflow efficiencies, leverage financial systems and AI tools to strengthen data integrity, and build technical solutions to improve grant portfolio management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, and/or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Four or more years of financial management experience, including performing financial analysis of budgets, forecasts, planning, reporting, and accounting.
- Strong understanding of grant financial principles and administration.
- Proficient in English, both written and verbal.
- Hands-on experience building and managing grant budgets, with foundational accounting knowledge including comfort with debits/credits, reconciliations, and net asset schedules.
- Advanced Excel proficiency, including the ability to independently build and troubleshoot complex financial analyses and models across large datasets.
Preferred Qualifications
Not specified.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary range: $85,000–$90,000. Base salary may be flexible based on skills, certifications, location and/or qualifications.
- Incentive plan: Eligible to participate in an annual incentive plan up to 10%.
- Benefits: Full-time benefits inclusive of medical/dental insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement program, paid time off, paid holidays, and more, with periodic review for merit and incentive pay based on organizational and personal achievement.
Location
Kansas City, Missouri.
Travel
Up to 5% domestic and international travel.
Employment Type
Full-Time, Exempt.
Additional Information
The organization is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive environment. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, military and veteran status, genetic information, and any other status protected by law. The organization provides reasonable accommodation when necessary to enable applicants and employees to complete the application process and/or perform essential functions of the job.
The organization participates in E-Verify.