Revenue Auditor (RA2)

State of Washington • Thurston County - Multiple Locations, WA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL), within its Prorate and Fuel Tax Services unit in the Business and Professions Division, is hiring Revenue Auditors to support tax collection and customer service. The role reviews fuel tax and motor carrier records, documents audit findings, evaluates internal controls and recordkeeping procedures, and manages multiple workloads. Revenue Auditors work with senior auditors during training, report writing, and audit activities, and provide customers with equitable access to DOL services.

The position includes independently planning, coordinating, and conducting educational desk reviews and audits of businesses or refund claimants. It also involves analyzing data, correcting reporting errors and discrepancies, reconciling reports and fuel documentation, educating customers, and making recommendations. Initial training may take place at the Olympia, Washington office. After training, employees are expected to work in office at a Prorate and Fuel Tax location every Wednesday and Thursday; additional in-office days may be required based on business needs.

Requirements

• Five years of relevant experience performing intermediate to complex auditing, accounting, and data analysis, including compiling, reconciling, and analyzing large data sets. Up to five years of relevant education may substitute year for year for experience.
• Experience using computer programs to write documents, send emails, edit spreadsheets, share documents, take notes, store files, and meet with people virtually and in person.
• Ability to understand and follow agency values of respect, trust, diversity, equity, and inclusion through behaviors and decisions.
• Ability to promote and support a respectful, equitable, and inclusive workplace for employees.
• Ability to promote and support respectful, equitable, and inclusive delivery of services to customers.
• Ability to take action to learn and grow.
• Ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
• Relevant education may be in business administration, public administration, law, public health, health administration, accounting, auditing, or a related field.
• A pre-employment screening that includes a criminal record history check is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with legislative and political environments and processes, including interpreting laws, rules, regulations, and policies and assessing impacts.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and other jurisdictional fuel tax and registration law.
• Familiarity with industry accounting and recordkeeping practices while working with customer records.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple assigned work products and organize assignments to produce work products.

Responsibilities

• Independently plan, coordinate, and conduct educational desk reviews and audits of businesses or refund claimants.
• Analyze data and correct reporting errors and discrepancies while meeting critical deadlines.
• Reconcile and evaluate reports, fuel invoices, and fuel receipts.
• Complete position training plan tasks and development goals.
• Provide education and recommendations to customers.
• Work with other auditors on coordinated audits.
• Document audit findings in reports and evaluate internal controls and recordkeeping procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed