DSHS HCLA Fiscal Analyst

The Department of Social and Health Services Home and Community Living Administration (HCLA) is seeking a Fiscal Analyst 5 to serve as a key fiscal expert in Lacey, WA. We're looking for a detail-oriented and collaborative fiscal professional to develop, maintain, and evaluate HCLA cost allocation methodologies based on the relative services provided and clients served. Reporting to the Client Services Manager, you will make recommendations regarding highly complex cost allocation methodologies for new and existing HCLA programs.

You will also lead HCLA cost allocation work supporting the transition from AFRS to Workday.

The ideal applicant has strong accounting expertise, excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities, adapt to changing demands, and meet fiscal deadlines while maintaining accuracy. This position supports compliance with state and federal regulations and continuous improvement of fiscal processes.

The position applies GAAP, SAAM, DSHS policy, contractual requirements, and federal and state regulations to resolve complex accounting issues, strengthen internal controls, support audits, and improve fiscal processes.

This opportunity is primarily teleworking, with in-office duties as necessary to receive, safeguard, route, and process fiscal mail and original financial documentation.

• Develop and maintain cost allocation systems and procedures for HCLA.
• Develop, maintain, and manage HCLA's chart of accounts in AFRS to support accurate expenditure coding, financial reporting, and cost allocation.
• Provide process improvement solutions, recommendations, consultation and technical support to staff and management.
• Coordinate with internal programs and other agencies to ensure accurate implementation of cost allocation plans across HCLA programs.
• Analyze monthly data received to update cost allocation and ensure the methodology remains acceptable and valid.
• Lead and integrate complex cost allocation methodologies into the Workday environment, ensuring a seamless transition from legacy cost allocation systems.
• Process journal vouchers to allocate social service expenditures paid through Provider One and over payment expenditures to the appropriate state and federal funding sources.
• Provide training and ongoing support to the fiscal specialist responsible for day-to-day billing, payment, and reconciliation.
• Develop processes to track expenditures and review, reconcile, and analyze financial and statistical data to determine eligible transfer amounts and appropriate federal funding sources in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Manage competing fiscal priorities and recurring deadlines, and communicate promptly with program and finance staff to resolve coding issues and address potential delays.

• Professionals who have a Bachelor's degree*, with a minimum of 12 semesters or 18 quarter hours in accounting, auditing, or budgeting, and at least 4 years of relevant professional fiscal experience.
• Or, eight years of relevant professional experience.
• Or, a Master's degree in a financial related field; or certification as a Public Accountant, Internal Auditor, Certified Governmental Financial Manager, or Management Accountant can be substituted for professional experience

* Professional fiscal experience may substitute for education, but not for the accounting, audit, or budget-related credit hours.

• Ability to assemble, analyze and prepare reports of complex financial data.
• Proficient in Enterprise Reporting (ER) to produce fiscal reports.
• Proficient in AFRS, including the development of complex toolbox transactions.
• Ability to follow and comprehend complex policies, procedures, directions and regulations.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to prioritize competing assignments, adapt to changing demands, and meet deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
• Ability to accept and follow direction from management.
• Ability to provide consultation and facilitate customer services problem resolution.
• Ability to operate office machinery and computer programs (computer, Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
• Ability to adopt the Workday system and translate legacy AFRS structures into Workday configurations to ensure data continuity.
• Ability to analyze complex financial issues, identify causes, and develop practical solutions with minimal…