Local Business Manager | WCC

Full Time | Permanent | WMS Band 2

Location:
Washington Corrections Center (WCC) | Shelton, WA

Salary Range: $120,396 Annually

This is a telework/hybrid position. The selected candidate may telework up to 2 days per week after an initial training period.

The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) is seeking an innovative, detail-oriented and self-motivated individual to join the Business Enterprise Services & Technology Division at the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) as the Local Business Manager (LBM)! The goal of the LBM is to utilize collaborative skills and efforts to work with DOC HQ, Business Services, and WCC Leadership, forming a dynamic team of professionals that work together to ensure all business and warehouse operations are met in conjunction with DOC values and strategic goals.

Our ideal candidate will build a high-performing customer-focused business office that delivers exceptional operational services. They will be a leader that creates an environment where employees feel empowered, valued, and accountable. They will foster teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The LBM is responsible for developing the budget, budget projections, providing fiscal analysis and advice to the operational leaders such as superintendents and health care managers. You will contribute to the organization's mission by providing access to adequate financial data, by developing the operating and local fund budgets, and by managing the business and warehousing operations.

Through budget strategy and development, the candidate of choice will have a pervasive and direct effect upon facility operations. Serving as the principal financial advisor to the operational leader, the LBM provides input and technical support for a broad range of activities and initiatives.

LBMs are financial experts who provide advice and expertise to the superintendent and other facility managers of budget development, expenditure management, and reduction strategies. This advice has significant and far-reaching effects on the facility and the overall budget variance of the agency.

• Managing and administering a comprehensive program in accordance with agency policy, WACs, CBA, and laws, which could look like:
  • Consulting with appointing authorities, managers, staff, supervisors, and HR regarding complex issues by gathering and analyzing facts to develop options and solutions
  • Developing new methods of viewing situations and approaching issues within ethical, legal, and regulatory boundaries
  • Exercising discretion and judgment when providing consultation and advice and applying skills and knowledge to different situations
  • Providing accurate interpretation, verbally and in writing, of policies, regulations, rules, goods and services contracts, and applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA)
• Planning, coordinating, and administering efficient and effective business services, including:
  • Consulting with operational leaders regarding business services and customer needs
  • Serving as a liaison to Headquarters Business and Budget units, ensuring that necessary information flows in a timely manner
  • Ensuring staff coordinate and collaborate with Headquarters Business Unit and subject experts as appropriate
  • Developing local business and warehouse procedures and practices
  • Identifying opportunities for efficiency and coordinating with Regional Business Manager as a means of sharing best practices
• Budget Development and Expenditure Management
• Prioritize, assign, and direct the work of business services staff promoting customer service
• Provide direct supervision and leadership to business office, payroll, incarcerated individual banking, purchasing, and warehouse staff as they provide support services to employees, incarcerated individuals, and facility staff
• Participates on teams, committees and task groups and ensures involvement of business staff members in same

What we need (required qualifications):

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 5 years of professional accounting experience.
• 3 years of supervisory or lead worker experience dealing with issues such as coaching, mentoring, training, and corrective action.
• At least 18 quarter or 12 semester hours of educational classes in accounting from an accredited college or university whose accreditation is recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council of Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or foreign equivalent.
• Professional-level experience providing consultation and direction on the most complex issues and questions in the areas of ethics, budgeting, accounting, purchasing, warehousing, interpretation of statutes, rules, and regulations.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel in order to develop and/or maintain spreadsheets that includes creating formulas and linking pages or workbooks.
• Working knowledge of governmental accounting and budgeting.
• Ability to coach and mentor others.
• Working knowledge of the principles of procurement, delivery of goods, and