DSHS FTAA Finance and Grants Manager

Are you a strategic financial leader looking to make a meaningful, large-scale impact?

Are you a strategic financial leader looking to make a meaningful, large-scale impact? At the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), our mission is to partner with people to access support, care, and resources. In this high-visibility role, within the Finance, Technology and Analytics Administration (FTAA) you will lead the Program Services Unit, shaping statewide fiscal policies that directly safeguard our agency's financial integrity and secure vital federal funding.

In this role, you will be responsible for financial management, analysis, consultation, and coordination of the department's administration and/or programs. In addition, you will monitor department financial activity to ensure compliance with departmental accounting standards, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Office of Financial Management (OFM) Policies and Procedures, Federal Regulations, and state laws. You'll be responsible for overseeing general ledger reconciliations, agency audits, federal grant awards, and federal grant draws and assist with the fiscal year close for DSHS.

You will manage an outstanding accounting team, train, coach, and mentor the staff and represent the agency on statewide committees and groups.

You're a fantastic accountant, but you want a new challenge. Come work for Washington’s largest state agency, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).

This position offers some flexible hybrid remote work. However, incumbents are required to be in the Olympia, WA location on a regular basis.

• Serve as a professional financial consultant in support of agency-wide accounting and financial systems
• Coordinate activities with program and institution fiscal areas state-wide across all administrations of the agency
• Identify and analyze national accounting standards and federal/state regulations and determine the impact on the department
• Assure appropriate and optimum use of the office's resources and enhance the effectiveness of employees through timely professional development opportunities

Bachelor’s degree in the field of finance, accounting or business with at least 30 quarter hours (20 semester hours) of accounting and/or finance courses

AND

Ten years’ work experience in professional accounting or auditing, preferably in governmental accounting with knowledge interpreting, auditing and/or using GAAP and GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board), Federal and State grant requirements.

Five years supervisory experience.

• Additional qualifying professional experience will substitute year-for-year for the required education, but not for the credit hours.
• Experience may be gained concurrently.

• Experience working on federal grants and Federal Award Compliance Audits.
• Experience with Washington State fiscal year close processes and general ledger reconciliations.
• Experience with complex state/public assistance cost allocation plans.
• Licensed CPA
• Ability to demonstrate strong evaluative and diagnostic thinking regarding varying complex problems, systems, policies, law, GAAP, to include the short and long-term impact on the agency.
• Excellent research and resource skills to obtain vital information for the management of assigned programs in accordance with federal requirements.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal managerial guidance, taking initiative to identify, investigate, and take corrective action on all assigned or ad hoc projects.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and accomplish objectives within given time constraints.
• Excellent communication (oral, presentation, and written) skills…