Financial Systems Administrator; WMS

Position: Financial Systems Administrator (WMS2)
We are dedicated to growing a culture of belonging through our values:

Respect | Trust | Diversity | Inclusion | Equity

At the Department of Licensing (DOL), we recognize the importance of work life harmony and strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and respected. Our employees are trusted and encouraged to be a part of process improvements that impact their work, create value for our customers and help build trust in our government.

Our Financial Services Office is currently recruiting for a Financial Systems Administrator to oversee all system requirements gathering, end-to-end testing, change management, technical training as each system change or upgrade impacts accounting functions.

As one of the most visible state agencies and the second-largest revenue generator in Washington State, we engage with over 6 million residents each year and collect nearly $3 billion in taxes and fees. We understand that our services are vital to the daily lives of our customers, enabling them to live, work, drive, and thrive. We take this responsibility to heart and are dedicated to providing equitable and meaningful access to our services for every resident.

The Financial Services Office provides the core business and financial activities that allow the agency to operate and ensure financial stability as well as overall agency direction, guidance, and management for fiscal related activities in a complex accounting and financial management environment. OneWA, the statewide effort to make current its finance, human resources, payroll, procurement, and budget functions, will place a heavy burden on agencies as they move from the legacy systems and internal platforms.

For DOL this impacts systems governing the collection of revenue for licenses and fees related to vehicles, drivers, businesses and professions, firearms, and Uniform Commercial Code filings.

Are you ready to take your excellent communication and management skills to the next level as you ensure our financial systems report, interface, and operate on time and accurately reflect our financial position?

As the Financial Systems Administrator you will be responsible for establishing, managing, and participating in the agency's entire accounting functions and, more broadly, its continued system modernization efforts. You will work closely with SMEs both internal and external to the agency, including product managers and owners, business analysts, the agency's OneWA project team and vendors. Serving as the Financial Services Office's point of contact for systems changes for all updates and reporting to the Chief Financial Officer you will be tasked with actively monitoring systems change requests ensuring they are properly prioritized and any clarifications required for programmers are quickly staffed.

Utilizing your strong leadership, technical policy and process expertise you will play a critical role in our success as you provide assistance to accounting staff.

Some of what you will do:

* Provide primary oversight and responsibility for the financial component of business technology applications.

* Develop proficient knowledge of the accounting aspects for any system with a financial component

* to train others.

* Facilitate routine trainings with staff sharing that knowledge.

* Lead, facilitate and document a shared understanding of the business problems for Finance and other divisions.

* Provide solutions, and determine the scope of the project for Enterprise systems used statewide.

* Create and facilitate a testing plan to ensure data integrity after major systems updates.

* Manage the development of specific training material to support changes in statute, rule, advances in technology or to meet operational demands of the supported divisions and internal DOL systems.

If you excel at identifying, mitigating and resolving constraints, implications and consequences of designed system changes and have the ability to effectively communicate to all levels of leadership and partners, we invite you to apply!

What you will bring to the position:

* Ten (10) years of combined professional experience in budgeting, accounting, auditing, or financial reporting, with a concentration in the Accounts Receivable and Billing arena.

* 20 semester/30 quarter hours of accounting course work or closely related field.

* Ability to:

* Demonstrate time management skills and multi-tasking skills, with ability to prioritize tasks.

* Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills with the proven ability to Influence stakeholders, sponsors, and team members on the vision, goals, and objectives of the project;

* Actively communicate to managers, peers and subordinates in a timely manner.

* Ability to identify and resolve conflict in a timely manner; establish a compelling rationale for resolving conflict, emphasizing benefits for the individual, team, and organization.

* Focus conflicting parties on their shared goals

* Maintain stable performance under pressure or opposition…