Fiscal Systems Analyst Senior-Finance

Snohomish County•Everett, WA

About The Position

This position is responsible for designing, maintaining, and modifying various county-wide and finance department specific automated financial system programs. The role involves planning, coordinating, and managing these systems through all phases of preparation for the county's general ledger, annual financial report, budget, payroll, and attendance tracking processes. Job offers are contingent on successful completion of employment verification and background checks. Snohomish County will not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this opportunity. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in accounting
Five (5) years of professional accounting experience including extensive experience with automated financial systems
Any combination of training and/or experience that provides the required knowledge and abilities
Must pass job related tests

Nice To Haves

Previous financial system experience at a governmental agency is preferred.

Responsibilities

Administers and troubleshoots the county's integrated financial and payroll/attendance systems; designs security profiles; verifies system integrity; processes, develops and recommends account code structures for all County departments.
Tests financial and payroll/attendance systems' program updates, troubleshoots new releases prior to full implementation including providing suggested solutions to developers.
Creates training materials and trains users on relevant new/changed program usage requirements.
Designs computer systems to analyze data from other agencies.
Modifies, designs and programs financial, payroll and attendance information reports according to client specifications using and/or integrating a variety of software.
Modifies, designs, coordinates and reviews various system processes, which may include maintenance of the general ledger month and year-end closings, budget development and maintenance, payroll/attendance development and maintenance.
Documents all aspects of the various systems processes.
Provides support to department staff in developing automated solutions to routine financial and payroll/attendance tasks.
May act as project lead in helping customer departments develop automated solutions to related workflow issues.
Provides technical assistance and training to countywide end-users in using financial/budget/payroll/attendance software including BARS state reporting requirements, general ledger report writing, etc.
Provides team leadership and participates as team member for financial and payroll/attendance system development and/or modification.
Analyzes new union, state and federal required accounting, budget, payroll/attendance requirements; develops and implements changes to the systems which will meet new legal requirements.
May represent and/or directly provide information and analysis to management in support of bargaining union contract negotiations related to compensation and benefit agreements.
Assists management negotiators determine abilities and limitations of automated systems in relation to proposed payroll and attendance benefit changes.
May make recommendations on best solutions from a systems perspective.
Develop and maintain a variety of relational database applications.
Ensure the applications are built and maintained with sound design practices.
Analyze user and database activity to detect and resolve application problems and faults.
May participate in internal confidential investigations of personnel as requested by the County's Controller.
Conducts, participates in and coordinates a variety of accounting, payroll/attendance and budgeting related special studies.
Performs related duties as assigned.