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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program Assistant Budget Manager - WMS Band 1 in Olympia, Washington
Working Title -- *Fish Program Assistant Budget Manager * Classification -- *WMS Band 1 *Job Status -- *Full-Time/Permanent * WDFW Program -- Financial Services - Fish Program* Budget Unit * Duty Station -- Olympia, Washington -- Thurston County Remote Employment -- *Approved for hybrid flexibility up to two days per week, at the discretion of the hiring manager. *Posting Timeframe - This recruitment is scheduled to be posted until April 13, 2025. The first review of applications will take place on March 27, 2025. Application review is ongoing, submit your application materials as soon as possible, this recruitment may be closed at any time.
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As the Fish Program Assistant Budget Manager, you will play a critical role in implementing budget strategies and overseeing the day-to-day financial operations of the Fish Program.
In this leadership position, you will supervise lead budget analysts for the Fish Program divisions, ensuring effective budget management and financial oversight.
This is an opportunity to help shape the Fish Program's financial planning by developing and maintaining spending plans, preventing overspending, and maximizing the use of appropriated and non-appropriated funds.
What to Expect- Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, the Fish Program Assistant Budget Manager will,
- Coordinate and maintain program policy underlying the distribution of central service and other program support costs.
- Manage the Fish Program's division level control totals and ensure compliance of spending plans in reconciling to these control totals.
- Assist in the development and coordination for timeline, content, and collaboration for budget packages for the fish program - emphasis on ensuring cross-program coordination occurs in a timely manner when applicable.
- Provide technical assistance to fish program staff as needed to help them interpret Office of Financial Management (OFM) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) rules and principles.
- Improve and maintain coordination between the Fiscal, Human Resources, Contracts, and Budget divisions to assure the agency reports accurate data in state financial systems.
- Manage and lead the lead division level budget analysts including hiring, performance management, timely check ins, coaching, and training.
- Work directly with the budget analysts to develop, draft, and present standard operating procedure to the budget manager to ensure budget management principals are consistent throughout the program.
- Train and mentor budget staff on internal agency budget processes and internal and external financial systems, including the use of Agency Financial Reporting System (AFRS), The Allotment System (TALS), Salary Projection System (SPS), Agency Budget System (ABS), Capital Budget System (CBS), Enterprise Reporting, and Web Intelligence.
Coordinate and improve activity reporting by working with programs to assure master guides are maintained and the chart of accounts connect to the agency activity inventory.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Work Setting, including hazards: *Working environment is a busy office setting. *
*Schedule: *Typically, Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., may be required to work more