Grant Accountant

Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights poverty and seeks racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. For over 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustices that trap people in poverty and provided legal services that help our clients meet basic needs for housing, income and economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country; our staff of more than 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers annually. We partner with scores of community-based and client-run organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equity for all low-income New Yorkers.

LSNYC employees have numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including access to our internal Justice Learning Center, which provides opportunities to earn free CLEs and gain experience as a trainer. 

The Position:

Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) seeks a full-time Grant Accountant II located at the LSNYC Central Office in Manhattan. The Grant Accountant II will report directly to the Director of Grant Accounting. The successful candidate will be responsible for pre- and post-award grant accounting including, but not limited to, contract reconciliation, submission of financial reports and vouchers, financial monitoring and analysis, support for Single Audit Act audit, ensuring financial compliance with funding source regulations, and maintenance of financial records in LSNYC’s accounting software and databases.

Responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for grant and contract accounting, including preparing grant/contract reconciliation of actuals to budget and grant/contract closeouts;
• Preparing financial reports to government or private funders and ensuring the timely submissions of all vouchers and related compliance reports;
• Run financial reports to obtain data needed to reconcile contracts and prepare and submit vouchers;
• Preparing journal entries in accounting software for grant/contracts vouchers;
• Coordinating contract and grant funding status through LSNYC contract management personnel;
• Working with the Director of Grant Accounting and Budget Managers, Grant Accountants assist where needed by providing information for the development of budgets and budget modifications for each office on both LSNYC-wide contracts and Borough-specific contracts;
• Assist where needed in filling out contract/grant documents for Borough contract proposals;
• For case-based contracts/grants, follow up with the Grants Management staff in Operations/LSU to ascertain caseload data for vouchering purposes;
• Grant Accountants (in coordination with the Grant Accounting Director) will communicate with field offices to respond to inquiries relating to incurred costs vis-à-vis award budgets;