accounting & fiscal management compliance consult senior

Salary

$110, $134,109.96 Annually

Location

Everett, WA

Job Type

Full-Time

Remote Employment

Flexible/Hybrid

Job Number

Department

Finance

Division

Finance Financial Operations

Opening Date

12/09/2025

Closing Date

12/14/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

BASIC FUNCTION

Provide accounting oversight and fiscal management consulting and training to client departments. Perform professional-level accounting, including a lead role in the preparation of complex financial reports, including the annual ACFR. Act for and on behalf of the Assistant Controller or Controller as assigned.

• IMPORTANT: Only Internal candidates are eligible to apply for this opportunity.

STATEMENT OF ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

• Responsible for oversight and/or project lead of accounting and financial compliance activities for several county departments and overall Annual Comprehensive Financial Report; helps ensure that client departments' financial activities, strategies, policies, and procedures are in compliance with legal and internal policy parameters; that client departments' key accounting compliance issues are understood, managed, and appropriately monitored. Determines appropriate audit methods and provides senior-level accounting policy recommendations on ACFR development, single audit compliance, accountability audit compliance, and any/all other audits within the County.
• Advises client departments' staff on accounting, reporting, and fiscal management policy issues; advises and assists client departments in developing fiscal policy compliance practices and procedures; recommends course of corrective action as needed.
• Identifies critical financial compliance issues confronting client departments and the county as a whole; works closely with client departments to develop operational and technological solutions, and monitors implemented solutions for current and long-term results.
• Provides concise written or verbal analysis of complex accounting, reporting, and fiscal management issues that have fiscal and/or legal implications; provides alternative solutions and recommendations.
• Maintains awareness of new and emerging accounting/reporting standards as assigned; determines and presents to the controller the impacts of new/changed standards and develops findings, conclusions, and implementation recommendations.
• Creates and provides training to client departments one-on-one or in county-wide groups regarding complex accounting/reporting standards that may impact them; in regard to fiscal management policies; and in regard to grant compliance requirements.
• Participates in the modification, development, and installation of client departments' and/or county-wide automated accounting systems as assigned; detects and defines systems problems; works with client departments and department of information services staff to arrive at solutions; recommends new and changed methods and procedures as appropriate; trains users, including client departments' staff, in the use of automated accounting systems. May serve as systems module lead.
• Designs, develops, and implements database applications and solutions to improve accounting and/or compliance operations as assigned.
• Prepares management information reports as requested; develops report formats.
• Advises and assists departments with debt management, working closely with the controller to ensure county-wide compliance with debt management legal requirements.
• Prepares written and oral responses to inquiries by division and other county managers, state auditors, and council staff as requested.
• Advises and assists departments in monitoring funds and fiscal health, aiding fund managers from a financial, accounting, and budgetary perspective to meet their operating objectives. This includes making recommendations on rates, cash flow, investments, and debt timing.
• Develops and establishes county-wide fiscal management policies and procedures as assigned.
• Maintains general and subsidiary automated and manual ledgers; reviews and/or approves original source entries; provides financial information for the budget process; prepares/reviews year-end accruals; researches and mediates accounting dispute resolution with client departments.
• Mentors, advises, assists, and trains subordinate-level employees as assigned; Reviews work of subordinate-level employees as assigned; resolves technical problems encountered in the work; may make recommendations regarding the hiring, termination, and discipline of subordinate-level employees; provides input for subordinate-level employees' performance evaluations.
• In the absence of the Assistant Controller or Controller, acts for and on behalf of the Assistant Controller or Controller in a limited capacity as requested by the Controller or Director of Finance.

STATEMENT OF OTHER JOB DUTIES

• Performs related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelor's degree in accounting, business, finance, or other field directly related to professional accounting and compliance work; AND, six (6) years of professional accounting experience; AND must have either a CPA license or CPFO certification or four (4) years of prior relevant experience as a state auditor. Must pass job-related tests.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous professional accounting experience for a governmental agency is preferred.
• Master's degree preferred.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Complete a minimum of 20 credit hours in Continuing Professional Education (CPE) in relevant subject matter.

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of:

• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS)
• Washington State Budgeting, Accounting and Reporting System (BARS)
• Principles, theories, and practices of governmental accounting
• Federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations governing public sector financial reporting
• COSO and other internal control compliance requirements
• principles and practices of budgeting and financial management as applied to public jurisdictions
• debt instruments, appropriate accounting treatment, and compliance requirements
• cost accounting methods and techniques
• rate setting practices and procedures
• research methods and techniques
• workflow planning, development, and monitoring of goals and work plans
• computer skills in automated accounting systems, spreadsheets, word processing, databases, and presentation graphics

Ability to:

• work independently with a minimum of supervision
• plan and manage complex projects; measure work accomplishments per stated objectives and timelines
• plan and organize work, meet deadlines, and manage several projects simultaneously
• evaluate and interpret complex financial data and relevant legal requirements, including ever-changing and increasingly complex reporting standards requirements
• analyze and effectively present asset, liability, revenue, expenditure, and fund balance data, and take effective action to resolve problems
• maintain necessary records and prepare required reports
• exercise initiative and judgment, and independently make decisions within the scope of assigned authority
• assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of alternative courses of action
• organize facts and present findings, conclusions, and recommendations in a clear, concise, and logical manner to a variety of audiences and in a variety of formats

• communicate effectively both orally and in writing

• relate to, communicate effectively with, and gain the cooperation of people of all ages and from a variety of cultural, economic, and ethnic backgrounds

• display a strong customer service ethic with the ability to listen to client departments' staff and respond to their needs

• effectively schedule, organize, monitor, and review the work of subordinate level employees
• foster an environment that encourages excellence on the part of peers, subordinate-level employees, and client departments' staff
• to quickly inform the supervisor of unresolved problems
• effectively lead project teams
• participate effectively as a team member
• establish and maintain effective work relationships with client departments' staff, project managers, managers, elected officials, associates, subordinates, and the general public

SUPERVISION

Employees in this class report to the Assistant Controller and Controller. The work is performed with considerable independence and is reviewed through meetings, periodic status reports, input from customer departments, and results obtained.

WORKING CONDITIONS

The work is performed in the usual office environment with field trips to various locations throughout Snohomish County as necessary. The employee is required to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as necessary to meet deadlines.

Snohomish County is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer.

Accommodations for individuals with disabilities are provided upon request.