DSHS HCLA Fiscal Analyst 5
DSHS' Home and Community Living Administration (HCLA) is seeking a Fiscal Analyst 5 responsible for the management of fiscal operations for Accounts Payable and Receivable for HCLA and DDA in Lacey, WA. We're looking for a detail-oriented and collaborative fiscal professional to lead daily fiscal operations while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and exceptional customer service. In this role, you will oversee accounts receivable and payable processes, manage billing and payment activities, analyze complex financial data, and support month-end and year-end close. The ideal applicant has strong accounting expertise, excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations and supporting continuous improvement of fiscal processes.
This is a non-supervisory technical-lead position that serves as the accounts payable and accounts receivable subject-matter expert and partners with the Accounting Manager in payment-batch review and release.
The position applies GAAP, SAAM, DSHS policy, contractual requirements, and federal and state regulations to resolve complex accounting issues, strengthen internal controls, support audits, and improve fiscal processes.
This opportunity is primarily teleworking, with in-office duties at least once a week to receive, safeguard, route, and process fiscal mail and original financial documentation.
Some of what you'll do:
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Serve as the non-supervisory technical lead for fiscal staff in day-to-day operations
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Prepare MCO billings, resolve disputed charges with program staff, and track payments received
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Responsible for the entire billing and payment process related to Veterans Directed Care (VDC) program. This includes preparing billing on Change Healthcare platform, distributing revenue received monthly, preparing revenue reconciliation workbooks, preparing payments to contractors for VDC related contracts, tracking receivable and payable monthly to prepare for fiscal year close JV, following up with Department of Veterans Affairs regarding any related issues.
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Review and approve monthly receivable invoices; reconcile billings and payments; and prepare revenue accruals and projections
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Review and approve daily payment batches in AFRS by validating accounting coding, supporting documentation, and contractual terms, and partner with the Accounting Manager in payment-batch review and release
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Prepare complex monthly, year-end, accrual, adjustment, transfer, allocation, and ad hoc journal vouchers (JV’s), and review and/or approve JVs created by other fiscal staff
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Serve as a technical expert for fiscal month-end and year-end close
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Analyze complex financial and statistical data and assemble, reconcile, and validate information for audit requests
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Perform specialized accounting activities using Enterprise reporting, Web Intelligence, AFRS, Change Healthcare, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and other financial systems
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Ensure fiscal transactions comply with GAAP, SAAM, DSHS policy, contractual requirements, and applicable and federal regulations
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Develop and maintain fiscal procedures, internal controls, billing calendars, tracking tools, reconciliations, and process improvements
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Communicate with both internal and external customers
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Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
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Analyze specially assigned complex contracts, invoices, and payables; identify coding errors, duplicate-payment risks, billing discrepancies, and conditions that could result in audit findings or policy violations
Who we're looking for:-
Professionals who have a Bachelor's degree*, with a minimum of 12 semesters or 18 quarter hours in accounting, auditing, or budgeting, and at least 4 years of relevant professional fiscal experience, such as cost allocation and account code structure, governmental accounting principles
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Or, a Master's degree in a financial related field; or certification as a Public Accountant, Internal Auditor, Certified Governmental Financial Manager, or Management Accountant can be substituted for professional experience
- Professional fiscal experience may substitute for education, but not for the accounting, audit, or budget-related credit hours.
Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities:
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Non-supervisory technical-lead experience, including reviewing fiscal work and communicating required corrections
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State accounting policies and regulations; OFM Statewide Accounting and Administrative requirements; long-term care system and DSHS cost allocation system department programs, policies, and procedures
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Demonstrated experience working with multiple funding sources and preparing complex financial reports, expertise in MS Excel and Adobe
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GAAP used in government accounting processes, reporting, funding mechanisms, and budgeting processes
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Solve problems by identifying the root causes; generate a range of solutions to consider and courses of action with benefits, costs, and risks associated with each course
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Enterprise Reporting, Web Intelligence, or AFRS payment-system experience
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Research and resolve inquiries from program managers, contractors, or other agencies
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Explain accounting procedures and practices for other’s understanding
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Collaborative supervision of others in a financial office
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Questions? Please reach out to DSHS Recruiter and reference 06220.
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