DSHS DVR Fiscal Analyst

DSHS DVR Fiscal Analyst 5-Lead

Make an Impact as DVR’s Senior Fiscal Lead!

DVR’s mission is to support Washingtonians with disabilities in achieving employment and independence. As our Fiscal Analyst 5, you will serve as the senior technical expert and lead worker for the Finance & Budget Unit — guiding fiscal operations that directly support services statewide.

This role is ideal for a seasoned fiscal professional who thrives in complex federal grant environments, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to shape financial practices that ensure accuracy, accountability, and compliance across the division.

• Serve as the unit’s lead worker, providing daily guidance, task assignment, and workflow oversight.
• Review and validate fiscal work for accuracy, compliance, and alignment with policy.
• Mentor and train staff, model professional standards, and support continuous improvement.

• Monitor the Basic Support Grant and its state match, ensuring accurate coding, tracking, and reconciliation.
• Prepare quarterly federal reports and conduct detailed grant analyses.
• Process complex adjusting journal vouchers and maintain systems that ensure fiscal accuracy.

• Manage AFRS table edits and maintain DVR’s chart of accounts.
• Review leases and leasehold improvements for compliance with federal and state requirements.
• Support internal and external audits, OFM appropriation monitoring, and annual aggregate reporting.

• Develop and maintain fiscal processes, internal controls, and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Deliver training to staff on fiscal topics to build technical knowledge and consistency.
• Contribute to special projects that enhance DVR’s financial operations.

• Understanding of OFM, SAAM and GAAP rules and regulations.
• Excellent working knowledge of AFRS, Enterprise Reporting, and AFRS Toolbox.
• Demonstrated technical skills using Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook with the ability to create complex spreadsheets, import data from other sources, and create pivot tables.
• Demonstrated ability to independently analyze data and present findings in a clear, concise manner.
• Demonstrated experience of fiscal accountability by following budget and finance regulations, principles, standards and guidelines when committing financial resources or recommending options for budget transactions.
• Demonstrates self‑awareness, self‑management, ethics, integrity, and continual learning.
• Demonstrates team dynamics by working within a motivated, high‑performing team as an engaged, involved, and productive team member.
• Ability to analyze, interpret and apply pertinent codes, laws, rules and regulations.
• Ability to make mathematical calculations quickly and accurately and identify and correct errors in mathematical calculations made by others.

Bachelor’s Degree, which includes 18 quarter or 12 semester hours in accounting, auditing, or budgeting and four to five years of relevant professional experience. Professional experience may substitute for education but not usually for credit hours.

OR

A Master’s degree in a financial related field certification as a Public Accountant, Internal Auditor, Certified Governmental Financial Manager or Management Accountant can be substituted for professional experience.

Monday through Friday 6:30AM-4:00PM

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any area of employment, its programs or services on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, marital status, race, creed, color, national origin, religion or beliefs, political affiliation, military status, honorably discharged veteran, Vietnam Era, recently separated or other protected veteran status, the presence of any sensory, mental, physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, equal pay or genetic information.

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