About This Role
Providing budgetary support to the Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) is the core of this Budget Analyst I role. This position works closely with the RAL Administrative team, offering pre- and post-award management services, including proposal preparation, post-award activities, and financial analysis and reporting. As a member of the RAL Administrative team, this role also provides back-up support to other administrative staff members.
Responsibilities
- Create supplemental documents for proposal submission, including Budgets, Budget Justifications, CVs, Current and Pending forms, Tables of Work Effort, Conflict of Interest forms, Subrecipient Commitment forms, etc., for Principal Investigators, Co-PI’s, Co-Is, and Collaborators as needed
- Work with internal and external PIs and collaborators on lead and non-lead proposals to ensure accuracy and timeliness
- Provide guidance to PIs across a variety of proposal types and sponsors, domestic and international, for proposal development that incorporates requirements, policy, terms and conditions, and feasibility/work plan
- Provide budget and finance support for one of RAL’s four programs
- Work with a senior Budget Analyst and the program’s project leaders to ensure accurate expense allocation
- Provide budget analysis and, along with PIs, reconcile issues
- Set up new awards and projects
- Create new budgets and monitor existing budgets for project managers
- Develop forecasts for spending and carryover
- Request no-cost extensions from program sponsors as needed
- Produce and interpret bi-weekly and monthly financial reports and graphs
- Answer questions, troubleshoot problems
- Prepare journal entries, bi-weekly reports, and salary transfers
- Reconcile and assist with closing out accounts
- Support the Lab’s subawards and subcontracts
- Create sole-source documentation or provide information needed to solicit competitive bids for awards
- Collaborate with Program Managers and the Contract Department to establish, manage, and close out all awards
- Monitor agreements to ensure compliance with relevant terms and conditions
- Modify agreements as needed to extend periods of performance, add funding, etc.
- Serve as a lab Export Compliance Coordinator assisting with completing Restricted Party Screenings for RAL proposals and visitors
- Assist senior administrators in reconciling and monitoring sponsor and vendor invoicing, ensuring timely and accurate monthly posting of AWS invoices
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant academic discipline, plus two years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience that qualifies the individual to perform the duties as described
