Accounting Manager; Finance and Administrative Services Manager

King County's Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) provides equitable opportunities for people to be healthy, happy, and connected to community.

DCHS is recruiting for an Accounting Manager, this role includes managing accounting staff that support the entire Department, maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring compliance with governmental accounting standards (such as GAAP or GASB), and supporting audits and reporting requirements. The Accounting Manager will coordinate budget monitoring, oversee payables/receivables and grant or contract accounting, implement internal controls, and ensure timely completion of month-end and year-end closes.

The manager also collaborates with program leaders to provide financial insights, improve processes, ensure efficiencies, and maintain transparency, accountability, and regulatory compliance in all financial activities.

• Responsible for leadership of a centralized DCHS Accounting Team and accounting operations, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger management. Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive team culture. Supervise staff, including but not limited to setting priorities, recruitment, performance management, assigning and monitoring workloads, and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately and comply with accounting standards and internal policies.
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, processes and standards, with a strong emphasis on change management.
• Oversee essential month-end/quarter-end/year-end closing tasks, including reconciling accruals, review and analyze aged payables, provides reports and support to ensure DCHS meets key deadlines timely and accurately.
• Ensure and maintain strong internal controls for DCHS Accounting Team.
• Perform a variety of accounting tasks such as management of data in critical systems, review of initial entries and documentation, reconciliation of contracted providers’ ledgers vs DCHS grant payments, and development of information to support budget and audit processes.
• Utilize County-wide accounting infrastructure parameters to modernize internal DCHS coding structure to more effectively track expenses and revenues.
• Perform daily and monthly account and cash balancing. Ensure clarity of any deviations between different accounting systems and establish resolution plans.
• Reconcile funds to the general ledger and cash accounts. Prepare, monitor, and maintain statistics and data for proactive identification of fund balance opportunities and risks.
• Facilitate communication to department and team to ensure compliance with new and existing Countywide accounting time frames and policies. Monitors adherence to internal DCHS policies specific to invoice processing, cash card issuance, and purchase cards.
• Assist with financial analysis and special projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business Administration, or related field.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience/knowledge in:
  • Budget development, financial management, managerial accounting, and financial accounting
  • Financial analysis, reporting and management information systems
  • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) related to general ledger and accounts payable management
  • Processing, reviewing, and reconciling complex financial transactions, including monitoring General Ledger activity across multiple funding sources
  • Providing technical assistance and fiscal guidance to human services providers
• Five (5) or more years of supervisory experience, including skill in applying management and supervisory principles, methods, and techniques.
• Demonstrated written…