Climate Change: Cap-and-Invest Finance Monitoring Team Lead; Financial Examiner

Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen

The Department of Ecology is hiring a Climate Change:
Cap-and-Invest Finance Monitoring Team Lead (Financial Examiner 4) within the Climate Pollution Reduction Program (CPRP).

• Headquarters Office in Lacey, WA.
• Upon hire, you must live within a commutable distance from the duty station.

• This position is eligible for telework and flexible schedule options.
• A minimum of one day per week is required in the office. This position is expected to be in the office for a full workday every Tuesday as well as during up to nine Wednesdays per year when auctions occur (four are guaranteed to occur each year).
• Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change.

• Apply by July 13, 2026.
• Applications submitted after the date above may not be reviewed unless additional qualified applicants are needed.

Join a team at the forefront of Washington’s climate leadership. The Cap-and-Invest Group works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a dynamic, high‑impact market system that funds the state’s transition to a cleaner, more resilient future. Within this group, the Auctions and Market Section manages one of the most important environmental markets in the region, overseeing allowance auctions, supporting major policy initiatives, and ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of a rapidly evolving program.

As the Finance Monitoring Team Lead, you will guide a group of two to three market monitors (financial examiners) who apply finance‑based insights to monitor trading activity, evaluate complex market behavior, and help safeguard the fairness and stability of the cap‑and‑invest market. This is an opportunity to play a key role in an innovative program that directly supports Washington’s climate goals and long‑term economic transformation.

• Lead finance monitoring team—two to three team members along with yourself—responsible for developing and maintaining the market monitoring strategy for Cap‑and‑Invest entities. Regularly assign and review staff work products and ensure processes exist to create and maintain strong market monitoring strategies.
• Direct and support finance monitoring staff as they use financial tools to analyze complex companies, including reviewing how staff evaluate whether required corporate disclosures are complete and accurate.
• Plan, assign, and supervise business and financial analysis conducted by finance monitoring staff including the development of new techniques and work methods where established procedures do not exist.
• Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching, and guidance for junior staff—especially those within the Auctions and Market Section and financial market monitoring team.
• Regularly review, assess, and approve market monitoring analyses and other technical work completed by finance monitoring staff to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with program standards.
• Evaluate and review market monitoring work and analyses conducted by others.
• Lead and/or coordinate staff collaboration with market monitoring, information security, and application development staff to design, develop, and maintain required registration and disclosure forms, and other user and entity interfaces with the program.
• Collaborate, train, or work to support finance monitoring staff as necessary in participating in cross‑cutting work with others within Ecology, and other State agencies such as the Department of Revenue, Department of Financial Institutions, Utilities and Transportation Commission, Department of Commerce, and federal organizations such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.

For detailed information on how we calculate experience and responses to other frequently asked questions, please visit our Recruitment website.

• Leadership & Team Development – demonstrated competence in leading, mentoring, and developing diverse analytical teams to build a collaborative, emotionally intelligent, and high performing finance monitoring unit.
• Advanced Financial & Market Analysis – ability to conduct and guide complex…