Budget Manager

Position Description

The Human Services Department Finance team seeks a collaborative leader to oversee the $110M budget for the Aging & Disability Services (ADS) division, the Area Agency on Aging for Seattle‑King County. The budget is comprised of federal, state, and local grants, and the team supports a service delivery network of more than 80 community partners, serving over 50,000 older adults, family caregivers, and people with disabilities throughout King County.

This Manager plays an essential role in developing and implementing multiple complex budgets while ensuring compliance requirements for over 30 grant sources are met. The Manager supports the development and performance of a team of analysts, partners with accounting leaders, identifies solutions to compliance and financial issues, and provides excellent customer service to program partners. The position reports to the department’s Budget Manager and is a member of the Finance leadership team.

• Serves as a primary authority and technical expert on budgetary and financial management issues requiring advanced technical proficiency and administrative management expertise, ensuring budgetary controls are in place for operating budgets and grants.
• Oversees Washington State DSHS Area Agency on Aging grant funding sources; ensures compliance with fiscal policies and fund source regulations; supports audits of federal grants by SAO and funders; identifies and addresses compliance issues.
• Provides planning, coordination, and oversight for the development and defense of multiple budgets, including HSD division, grant, and program budgets. Prepares data for HSD’s annual budget submittal and responds to inquiries from the City Budget Office.
• Supervises a team of professional staff; assigns and monitors work; conducts performance management activities and training; fosters an environment of teamwork.
• Partners with Accounting team leaders to effectively manage financial data and ensure timely and accurate monthly grant billing.
• Provides excellent customer service to program partners by presenting accurate and timely financial reports for program budgets, and collaborates on program planning and shared deliverables such as the DSHS Area Plan budget.
• Oversees the preparation and presentation of financial, revenue, expenditure, fund status, and variance reports to management to enable financial and budgetary monitoring.
• Oversees the implementation of multiple cost allocation plans and data management driven by complex financial coding.
• Identifies and advises management on budget overruns, revenue shortfalls, and other financial problems; recommends options and solutions; works with management to resolve problems; completes research to support analyses of operational and policy issues and financial impacts.
• Supports department goals in promoting racial and social justice.

• Five years of experience in budget management, public administration, finance, accounting, or a related field.
• Three years of experience managing budgets funded by multiple grant revenue sources in a government setting.
• Two years of experience supervising professional staff or providing leadership across organizational lines or advising management on strategic policy development or program direction.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

• Seven years of professional experience in budget management, financial analysis, grants management, or related work in a government setting.
• Demonstrated ability leading teams to accomplish shared objectives, including assigning and monitoring work, assessing performance, and supporting team members in achieving developmental goals.
• Strong fiscal analysis skills with the ability to quickly assess problems and recommend solutions.
• Experience with interpreting regulations and ensuring compliance with federal grant and other funding source requirements.
• Skilled in preparing and presenting information to executive leadership, City budget office staff, and other external stakeholders.
• Desire to support the work of…