Budget Analyst 3 - Permanent - 2025-08120

State of Washington•Olympia, WA

53d•Hybrid

About The Position

The person in this role plays a key part in supporting the financial health of WDFW programs by managing complex, time-sensitive fiscal operations. This position ensures the accurate and timely reconciliation, invoicing, and reporting of Capital and Asset Management Program (CAMP) related projects, upholding the highest standards of financial integrity in compliance with GAAP, SAAM, and the Berk Report for distributed costs. As the agency's subject matter expert on CAMP fiscal processes, this position serves as the critical link between Fiscal, Budget, and CAMP teams - troubleshooting complex accounting issues, providing expert guidance, and ensuring smooth coordination across financial functions.

Requirements

Four (4) years of professional experience in accounting, budget, finance, or public administration.
A bachelor's degree in a related field may replace two (2) years of experience.
A technical degree, vocational education, or an associate's degree in business, accounting, or budget may replace one (1) year of experience.
OR Six (6) months of professional experience as a Budget Analyst 2.

Nice To Haves

A master's degree involving major study in business, public administration, accounting, economics, statistics, or closely allied field.
Experience with CAPS Financial and Novatus.
Fiscal or budget office experience
Knowledge of budget and business management practices
A degree in business, public administration, economics, accounting, or statistic
Team leadership for multidisciplinary project teams

Responsibilities

Develops and implements a method that supports the dispersal of centralized costs using the agency chart of accounts structure.
Creates and uses a distribution workbook or similar function to create information from project expenditure data to populate a monthly Journal Voucher that distributes the expenditures.
Ensures quality control methods are completed at every critical step.
Execute monthly expenditure reports to populate the distribution workbook, organize and clean the data, develop the cost center rates, distribute cost center expenditures to active and applicable projects, review results, create Journal Voucher to zero out expenditures from the cost center clearing accounts.
Implement the quality assurance process of the 'monthly multiplier' to ensure that the work unit costs are in line with expected amounts.
Contact work units on discrepancies and make any necessary adjustments.
Create journal vouchers to move the costs from the business lines to identified master indexes to ensure compliance with regulations regarding specific funding.
Create and update monthly budget reports for related project invoicing.
Monitor Fund 444 and report quarterly to Financial Services Program (FSP) Leadership.
Review current budget reports for CAMP for accuracy and legibility.
Remediate reports into the new Workday solution for One Washington.
Facilitate training to learners of different skill levels between program, fiscal, and budget staff.
Coordinates and works closely with CAMP Budget Staff and makes recommendations for integrating the current Chart of Accounts into the new Workday Foundational Data Model.
Attend One Washington trainings including End-to-End testing and participate in the Sprints.