Division Budget Manager (WMS2)

About the role

The Department of Licensing (DOL) is dedicated to fostering a culture of belonging through core values of Respect, Trust, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. We believe in work-life harmony and strive to create a supportive environment where employees feel valued and respected. Our mission is to provide essential services to our 6 million residents, ensuring they can live, work, drive, and thrive.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance to program executive management and staff on the use of financial resources and performance measures to achieve program, division, and agency goals.
• Coordinate and provide directions on the fiscal note preparation and processes.
• Serve as the division representative in proposing and reviewing revisions to agency resource management policies and procedures.
• Aid fellow Budget Managers in developing departmental policy and implementing these policies.
• Represent division's budgetary interests in the agency budget development and management processes.
• Recommend and develop decision packages to secure funding for division and agency business needs.
• Affirm the appropriate and efficient use of the division's resources.
• Assist in fee-setting processes for licenses and fees where DOL has rulemaking authority.

Qualifications

• Nine (9) years of combined professional experience in budget, accounting, or program financial management, including analyzing financial data, identifying issues or challenges, and trends; providing important feedback and status reports; and problem-solving to offer well-thought-out options for resolution and next steps.
• Experience in a State position titled Budget Manager, Budget Officer, or Chief Financial Officer.
• Knowledge of principles of state financial management, state budgeting policies, processes, and systems, principles of management and public administration, including budget, staffing, performance measurement, strategic planning, life cycle cost analysis, tactical and business planning, project management, legislative process, and research techniques.
• Understanding of legislative budget and policy procedures and documents.
• Ability to analyze legislation (bills), analyze legislative and budget proposals, understand administrative code pertaining to assigned division, develop well-written, financially sound budget decision packages and fiscal notes, establish, update, and monitor performance measurement models, understand customer needs, and help ensure customer satisfaction.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written, with a wide range of executive, management, professional, technical, and front-line staff within assigned division, agency, the Legislature, Office of Financial Management, and other state agencies.
• Experience in developing advanced-level Excel spreadsheets, formulas, and graphical displays of data.
• Experience working through 2 full state budget cycles.

Skills

Strategic thinkers with a passion for ensuring compliance with financial policies and regulations while finding creative solutions are highly valued. The ability to take action to learn and grow, promote and support a respectful, equitable, and inclusive workplace for all employees, and promote and support respectful, equitable, and inclusive delivery of services to customers are essential.

Benefits

Washington State offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and basic life insurance, a medical flexible spending account, basic life and long-term disability insurance, dependent care assistance, auto, boat, home, and renter insurance, and the Washington State Employee Assistance Program. Retirement and deferred compensation options are also available.