Business and Finance Officer III; Sheriff's Office

WHO MAY APPLY

This Civil Service position is open internally to King County employees. We are not accepting external applications at this time. For more information regarding King County Civil Service Rules you can access these rules here. The responsibilities of this position include performing highly complex and technically specialized financial and business analyses for the King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO). Incumbents are considered management technical experts performing analyses that contribute to King County’s management and policy decisions.

This position will also supervise four professional staff.

KCSO employs 1200 employees and serves the needs of over half a million people in unincorporated areas and twelve contract cities. KCSO also provides police departments for the Muckleshoot Tribe, Metro and Sound Transit and the King County International Airport. Our regional services (like Air Support and Bomb Disposal) are available to the county's 2.2 million residents. We also have Specialized and Elite Units that include TAC-30 (SWAT), Marine and Dive, and a Therapeutic Response Unit.

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Applicants must demonstrate a background that provides the knowledge, skills, and ability to:

• Provide authoritative technical and analytical advice on the specialized areas of Procurement, Budget, and Cost-allocation:
  Examples may include projects to integrate expenditure data into the cost-allocation model.
• Supervise procurement section including one (1) Budget and Finance Officer and three (3) Fiscal Specialists.
• Determine staff workload and priorities, provide training and development, monitor and evaluate work (including written evaluations of staff) and serve as mentor.
• Employee management which includes hiring, training, and implementing corrective action or reprimands to maintain performance standards.
• Provide regular insight, analysis, and recommendations on finances and business processes to support leadership in decision-making and maintaining the financial health of the Sheriff’s Office.
• Assist CFO and Business and Finance Officer IV with optimum resource management including developing data for analysis of financial operations and changes.
• Represent the Sheriff’s Office as needed at meetings with central King County Finance and central Procurement.
• Serve as a strategic partner to management by analyzing financial data, budgeting, forecasting, and evaluating program performance to drive informed decision-making.
• Lead implementation and/or facilitate implementation of new or existing procedures, policies, work plans and/or strategies for King County and Sheriff’s Office financial compliance.
• Provide regular insight, analysis, and recommendations for financial, operational and policy decisions related to procurement, travel, or P-Cards as well as for internal control improvements that limit risk of fraud.
• Implement and/or facilitate implementation of procedures, policies, work plans and strategies for regulatory compliance.
• Provide data related to billings for processing by the accountants.
• Serve as a key contact for external compliance audits including state, council, and executive audits as well as other federal, state and local audits as needed.
• Provide CFO and BFOIV details regarding Budget, Grants, and Cost-allocations including analyzing expenditure trends affecting the department. Recommend changes in internal financial policies and procedures and/or recommend changes in division or unit budgets to meet emergent needs.

Five (5) years of professional experience with three (3) years of progressively responsible budget and fiscal management experience or any equivalent combination of experience and education which provides the applicant with the desired skills, knowledge and ability required to perform the work. Three (3) years in a supervisor or lead role. General understanding of project and financial accounting concepts and principles, including generally accepted accounting principles and indirect cost accounting.

Knowledge of governmental accounting. Knowledge of and skill in the use…