The Attorney General's Office is recruiting for a permanent full time Contracts Specialist 3 in the Financial Services Division. This position is located in Tumwater, Washington, and is not union-represented. The Financial Services Division (FIS) provides accountability for the AGO's financial, budgetary and accounting practices. The division ensures financial records are complete, accurate and accessible to oversight agencies for state and federal compliance. FIS is responsible for agency budget development and monitoring, accounting, payroll, contracts, grants, and purchasing functions. FIS contains three main units: Accounting; Contracts and Grants; Budget. The Accounting Services Unit is responsible for all accounting, purchasing, payroll, travel, legal services billing and timekeeping functions. Related responsibilities include: depositing and distributing divisional settlements and recoveries; purchasing goods and equipment for the Office; paying Office invoices; processing payroll; reconciling timekeeping and producing the monthly legal services bill; negotiating our federal indirect rate; preparing the agency statewide cost allocation plan; and preparing the comprehensive annual financial report. The Contracts and Grants Unit is responsible for the centralized management and oversight of all AGO procurements, contracts, and grants. This includes a variety of activities such as posting all competitive solicitations, managing the entire lifecycle of a contract (creation, execution, renewal and closeout); negotiating contractual terms and conditions; ensuring compliance of all grants and contracts; applying for new grant opportunities; monitoring grantees; reporting; training to AGO staff and grantees; and creating policies, procedures and forms. This unit is also responsible for the AGO's Special Assistant Attorney General program: contracts with outside law firms to assist client agencies when there is a need for specialized expertise or when a conflict arises. The Budget Unit is responsible for all agency budget functions which includes requesting funding from the Governor's Office of Financial Management and the Legislature; setting the billing rates for the Office; monitoring expenditures, monitoring fund cash balances; forecasting fund balances and revenue; projecting Office and Division expenditures and staffing usage and needs; reviewing legislative bills and assessing and articulating the impacts to the Office. This position reports to the AGO Contracts Administrator and works as a part of a team that is responsible for contract monitoring, reporting and administration for the AGO's Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) program. The AGO utilizes SAAGs to provide advice and representation to client agencies when specialized expertise is needed, when there is a conflict of interest, when there are capacity issues, or a variety of other reasons. While it varies, the AGO has approximately 1,100 active SAAG contracts. As a result, we have a great team of subject matter experts in the SAAG Unit to assist with the AGO's SAAG program.