Join our team in  Research and Sponsored Programs Accounting, where we directly contribute to Notre Dame’s mission of being a force for good in the world. Through our support for campus partners, we enable them to achieve their goals while meticulously stewarding their resources. We uphold Notre Dame’s values of teamwork, accountability, integrity, and leadership in excellence and mission.

At Notre Dame, we offer more than just a job – we provide an environment where you can thrive personally and professionally. Our unique work culture, coupled with our distinctive mission, offers you the opportunity to build a fulfilling career. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive list of best-in-class benefits. Join a department that values independent work and empowers you to make decisions aligned with the University’s mission. This position is a hybrid role allowing up to 2 days to work from home. 

Join a dynamic team committed to continuous improvement. You’ll have the freedom to innovate, explore creative solutions, ask insightful questions, and learn from both successes and failures. As the Research Accounting Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring financial compliance and operational efficiency in managing a portfolio of research awards. Your responsibilities are ensuring financial compliance along with training, grant analysis, billing, financial reporting, and policy development.

If you’re excited about the prospect of making a difference while doing what you love in a supportive and mission-driven environment, we invite you to apply and share more about yourself. Join us in fulfilling Notre Dame’s distinctive mission and make it your professional home.

Job duties:

• Perform regular grant analysis and targeted account audits based upon risk assessments of grants, including associated cost share funds, and other related research programs. Such analyses and audits will target “red flags” noted and use those as a basis for changes in existing policies/procedures/oversight focus.

• Actively participate in developing and delivering targeted financial compliance training and certification programs to researchers and research support staff across the institution. Such programs will include not only financial compliance components, but also systems and process efficiency components.

• Develop, document and test internal controls specifically associated with financial compliance over externally funded research programs.

• Monitor and facilitate enterprise wide compliance programs such as effort certification, subrecipient monitoring, costing analysis (F&A, Blended Fringe, Recharge Analysis) and the like.

• Ensure all University policies and procedures related to research financial compliance and processes are up to date, documented and posted on the appropriate web pages.

• Assist in the coordination and reporting of external audits, surveys, and other ad-hoc reporting (i.e.: Uniform Guidance Audit, NSF Survey, Indiana Entity Report, NSF Space Survey, ONR Property Reviews).

• BBA in Accounting or Finance.
• 1 to 2 years in accounting in higher education, governmental, or public accounting.
• Prior accounting/business experience must have required decision making, analysis, and presentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with proficiency with Microsoft Office software suite.

• CPA with emphasis on auditing experience, or Master’s level business/accounting coursework.
• A working knowledge of the federal administrative requirements and cost principles contained in the Uniform Guidance, CAS, GAAP, and GAAS applicable to higher education is also preferred.

Monday – Friday, 8 am – 5 pm