Accountant

About this role

Contribute your accounting expertise to a hands-on accounting role where your skills directly influence the success of health and human services programs as an Accountant for ND Health and Human Services (HHS).

As an Accountant for HHS, you will partner with program administrators to manage budgets, track expenditures, and ensure compliance with both state and federal policies. You will review payments to ensure costs are charged correctly, as well as monitor spend-downs, contracts and grant reconciliation for compliance and prepare cash-flow statements. Also, you will provide program leaders budget reports to help them make effective decisions. Furthermore, you will be involved in the biennial budget building process.

To thrive in this position, you must be mission-driven and find satisfaction in knowing that your work helps improve lives and ensures resources are used effectively throughout the state. You must have accounting experience in the public or non-profit sector that demonstrates your ability to analyze impact of laws and regulations changes, as well as mastery in interpreting frequently changing policies, grant requirement, state and federal statutes. You will need to have a history of learning new approaches and methodologies that can be applied to your work. Additionally, you must be able to comprehend financial systems to clearly communicate accounting concepts to non-financial leaders so they can make sound decisions. Most importantly, you will need to maintain focus and productivity amidst frequent time sensitive requests and changes.

To be considered for this position, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a closely related field
• A strong understanding of accounting principles and how to apply them
• One (1) year of professional accounting experience which includes working with budgets, cost accounting, grant management, fund tracking, Uniform Guidance, contract management, auditing, proc...