Grants & Uniform Guidance Finance Consultant
About the job
- Experience in university or research-institution post-award or sponsored-projects accounting.
- Working knowledge of 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance), including cost principles, effort reporting, and F&A application.
- Hands-on experience with award closeouts, cost transfers, and federal sponsor financial reporting.
- Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant, remote-first with occasional client travel.
- Review post-award financial processes against 2 CFR 200 cost principles, allowability, allocability, and documentation standards.
- Assess effort reporting and certification practices, including cost sharing and salary charged to awards.
- Analyze F&A (indirect cost) rate application, negotiated rate agreements, and cost-allocation methods on sponsored projects.
- Reconcile sponsored-project ledgers, cost transfers, drawdowns, and financial reports to sponsor requirements.
- Lead or support award closeouts, including final financial reports, residual balances, and subaward closeout.
- Strengthen subrecipient monitoring, internal controls, and written procedures ahead of Single Audit review.
- Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming.
- Experience supporting Single Audit or federal agency audits and reviews.
- Familiarity with research administration or grants accounting systems, for example Workday, Kuali, Huron, or PeopleSoft Grants.
- CRA, CPA, or a comparable certification.
About the company
AlphaHire provides a workforce intelligence platform for capital-intensive industries such as construction, data centers, energy, and private equity. It uses signals from hundreds of sources across many labor markets to deliver current, decision-ready data on labor availability, compensation trends, and hiring competition, not as a recruiting service. The platform offers structured products—Labor Availability Assessments, Workforce Due Diligence for M&A, Expansion Readiness, and Workforce Risk Monitoring—to support capital decisions. Its goal is to help executives and investors reduce operational risk and improve project cost outcomes through better workforce planning and risk visibility.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
N/A
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 data center tracker flags 140-plus competing projects and constrained electricians.
- AlphaHire says live compensation intelligence runs on trailing 90-day offer activity.
- The 2026 research lab ties federal-award data to near-term demand spikes.
What critics are saying
- AlphaHire depends on public data, and OEWS lags live market moves by twelve months.
- Competitors copy market dashboards fast; Bloomberg, Lightcast, and LinkedIn can bundle alternatives.
- If data-center capex freezes in 2027, AlphaHire's premium labor-intelligence category shrinks fast.
What makes AlphaHire unique
- Founded 2018, AlphaHire sells decision-grade workforce intelligence, not recruiting or staffing.
- Its 2026 Observatory monitors 180 labor markets and 500-plus sources continuously.
- Labor Availability Assessment and Early Warning System frame Go, Conditional, No-Go capital decisions.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Performance Bonus