Description

Duties

As the Fiscal Analyst, you will bill for Regional Transit Authority (RTA) fees, Business & Professions Division Fines and public records requests. Your attention to detail will be relied upon as you review reports to determine which fees need to be billed, generate invoices, and provide instructions with how to pay. As payments come in for billing, your accuracy will be vital as you provide the revenue coding to ensure the deposits are made to the correct accounts in our Agency Financial Reporting System (AFRS).
Some of what you may do:

• Send second notices with a newly created deadline for payment when payments have not been received.
• Produce or assist with producing accounts receivables aging reports to assist management in understanding and quantifying collections success.
• Reconcile accounts receivables subsidiary ledgers and make judgments about when and how to reclassify current receivables to long-term receivables in the general ledgers.
• Prepare accounts for sending to the state collections vendor when second notice billings do not generate payment.
• Monitor reports from the collection agency to determine if the vendor is being successful in collecting amounts owed.

Qualifications

What you will bring:

• Two (2) years of combined higher education (including 18 quarter or 12 semester hours in accounting, auditing, or budgeting) and/or accounting related experience.*

• Must include a minimum of 6 (six) months professional accounting experience.

• Experience must include:
  • One (1) year of the following:
    • Entering accurate accounting related information into an electronic accounting system.
    • Providing customer service by listening attentively, identifying needs or issues, providing options for customers, and exercising knowledge of state laws and regulations to assist others.
    • Conveying ideas and information in writing, using language that is appropriate to both the complexity of the topic and the knowledge and understanding of the reader.
    • Using Microsoft suite software to include Outlook, Word, and Excel.
  • Six (6) months:
    • Accurately using the ten-key numerical keypad on a computer or adding machine to enter numerical data by touch.

• Six (6) months of experience analyzing and reconciling general or subsidiary ledger for validity and accuracy.
• Experience accurately inputting data and reviewing transactions in Agency Financial Reporting System (AFRS) and ability to run Enterprise Reporting reports.
• Knowledge of Office of Financial Management (OFM) Federal, and State regulations and guidelines.
• Experience using DOL Systems such as DRIVES, POLARIS, GenTax, and RevVal.
• Experience in accounting theory, principles and practices, internal control procedures, financial management software applications, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

• Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the position.
• The position requires you to be in the office full-time and will not be available for a hybrid work format.

Supplemental Information

• Select the apply button at the top of this job announcement.
• Attach a current:
  • Resume

The Washington State Department of Licensing is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex (including gender identity), marital status, sexual orientation, race, religion, creed, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability.

Persons requiring accommodation in the application process, during the recruitment process, or who need this job announcement in an alternative format, may contact the Human Resources Office at 360-902-4000 or may email HRRecruit@dol.wa.gov. Applicants who are deaf or hard of hearing may call our ASL interpreter via Video Phone at 360.339.7344.
The candidate pool certified from this recruitment may be used to fill future similar vacancies for up to sixty days.