RSM US India | Financial Consulting Senior Associate - Finance as a Service

Key responsibilities

• You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally.
• Set up and maintain awards in the client's system — award terms, period of performance, budget lines, funder codes, restriction classification and billing basis.
• Prepare funder financial reports and invoices across federal, state, local, foundation and corporate templates.
• Prepare drawdown and reimbursement requests through the applicable funder portals and reconcile them to the general ledger.
• Support subrecipient monitoring — invoice review, eligibility and exclusion checks, risk assessment documentation and the related transparency filings.
• Prepare grant-related audit schedules and supporting documentation, respond to auditor queries, and support annual regulatory and information-return filings.
• Maintain grant trackers, close checklists and desktop procedures; identify automation and standardisation opportunities; review the work of Associates and support their on-the-job training.
• Process grant-coded transactions: allocations of payroll, fringe and shared costs; grant-specific AP/AR; journal entries; cost transfers with documented justification; and monthly reconciliation of grant receivables, deferred revenue and net asset balances.
• Test costs against the allowable, allocable and reasonable standard, monitor budget versus actual by line, flag over-runs, expiring funds and unallowable costs, and track prior-approval and budget-modification triggers before they become findings.
• Audit & filing support.
• Act as the India-side point of contact for client programme managers, development and fundraising teams, HR-payroll and the US engagement team — chasing documentation, resolving coding queries, running status calls and escalating early.
• Working command of of U.S.

Requirements

• Not-for-profit experience is essential; it may have been gained with Indian or US organisations.
• Experience with grant cost allocation methodologies and time-and-effort / payroll certification requirements.
• Fund accounting proficiency in at least one platform — Sage Intacct, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, MIP Fund Accounting, NetSuite or Workday; advanced Excel (pivots, lookups, large-file reconciliation).
• Experience supporting US-based clients or stakeholders from an offshore or shared-services location.
• Familiarity with grants management tools and reporting/automation tools (Power BI, Alteryx, Power Query).
• Exposure to grant proposal budgeting, award close-out and carryforward analysis.

RSM US India

RSM US India is an employer hiring in India (sector: Audit / Consulting / Advisory). In its own words: "RSM US LLP is the leading U.S."

CA Samaaj lists RSM US India's current India openings for finance, accounts, audit and tax professionals, taken from its official careers site (rsm.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com) and checked regularly to remove closed jobs. Recent roles are based in Gurugram, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

• Industry: Audit / Consulting / Advisory