Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer

The Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals (BIIA) is offering a challenging and rewarding opportunity for the right individual to make a difference through serving the state of Washington. Our employees are our most valuable resource: diverse, energetic, innovative thinkers who care equally about producing quality work and serving the public. We are committed to preserving our culture of diversity and inclusion and to providing a work environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identity diversity. The BIIA's mission is to serve the public by resolving appeals in a consistent, impartial, timely, and efficient manner. The BIIA rules on approximately 14,000 annual appeals related to orders, decisions, and awards of the Department of Labor and Industries. The BIIA plays a significant role in the state's multi-billion dollar industrial insurance economic sector. The agency's jurisdiction includes disputes involving workers' compensation, premium assessment, industrial safety and health, and crime victims' compensation, among others. The agency is also the final authority on all proposed structured settlements. The Board is a full-time, quasi-judicial, three-member board appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. The agency has approximately 140 employees and a biennial budget of approximately $55 million. Headquartered in Olympia, the BIIA also has staffed offices in Lakewood, Richland, Seattle, Spokane, Vancouver, and Yakima. The BIIA is a great place to work! We offer flexibility and mobility in the workplace to enhance work/life balance, to improve wellness, and to support a productive work environment, increased job satisfaction and engagement. Great benefits! This position includes medical, dental, life insurance, long-term disability, retirement, deferred compensation, flexible spending account, dependent care assistance, paid time off (sick leave, vacation leave, personal holiday, personal leave day), 11 paid holidays, and an Employee Assistance Program. Tuition Reimbursement is available for eligible employees subject to guidelines and funding.

Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is the highest-level financial position in the agency. The position develops strategic initiatives and ensures the agency's financial viability and integrity in support of the BIIA's mission. The CFO develops, interprets, implements, administers, and controls financial policies and procedures that support the agency's goals and strategic plan, ensures compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, and ensures control over agency assets and expenditures. The position is responsible for the following:

• Leadership/Management - Serves as a member of the agency's Extended Management Team and the Administrative Services Management team. Manages a team of eight with direct supervision of five employees.
• Budget - Develops the agency's biennial and supplemental budgets and allotments ($56 million per biennium). Make decisions and recommendations to the CAO on budget proposals that allow the agency to carry out mission-critical operations, including supporting the agency's strategic plan activities. In collaboration with the CAO, develops, reviews, and submits biennial and supplemental budget requests to ensure the agency has the resources necessary to achieve desired outcomes.
• Accounting – Manages all agency financial operations, including financial reporting, accounting, payables, payroll, purchasing, and contracting. Delegated authority to approve all agency expenditures.
• Public Records – Oversees the program and supervises the agency's Public Records Officer.
• Risk Management - Serves as agency Risk Manager and primary liaison with the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) and the Office of Financial Management (OFM) regarding agency risk management activities.
• Performance Management - Manages and administers the agency's performance management functions related to the Governor's Results Washington.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in public administration, business, accounting, or a related field (relevant experience may be substituted, year for year, for education).
• Substantial experience developing and managing budgets in a Washington State agency.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience applying and providing general accounting or financial management services.
• Substantial experience applying principles of management, strategic planning, and project management.

Job-Specific Competencies:

• Strong customer service commitment and philosophy,
• Ability to effectively communicate with a multitude of professional and managerial levels, including state agencies and private organizations.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, decision making, and consultative skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.

Desired Competencies:

• Ability to interpret correctly and apply Office of Financial Management (OFM) guidelines relating to financial management, purchasing, and accounting.
• Ability to interpret correctly and apply various Department of Enterprise Services (DES) policies and guidelines as they relate to purchasing and contracting.
• Ability to understand public records retention guidelines and public records management best practices.

BIIA Core Competencies:

• Accountability: Takes responsibility for own actions and can be relied upon to achieve excellent results with little oversight.
• Adaptability to Changing Needs/Flexibility: Embraces changing business needs and adapts approach, goals, and methods to achieve success.
• Customer Focus: Builds and maintains internal and external customer satisfaction with the services offered by the organization.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Recognizes the value of cultural, ethnic, gender and other individual differences. Understands differences in and responds appropriately to others.
• Effective Respectful Communications: In a respectful manner, conveys clear messages that are effective in communicating information and ideas with others.
• Ethics and Integrity: Earns trust, respect, and confidence of coworkers and customers through honesty, candor, and professionalism in all interactions.
• Relationship Building: Builds constructive working relationships characterized by a high level of teamwork, cooperation and mutual regard.
• Safety Focus: Adheres to all workplace safety laws, regulations, standards and practices.

Leadership Competencies:

• Leadership, Performance and Accountability : Serves as an effective leader consistent with the agency's mission and values.
• People Management : Effectively manages human resources in a consistent and equitable manner.
• Decision Making : Uses knowledge and understanding of the organization to make sound and logical decisions and takes actions that contribute effectively to organizational goals.
• Knowledge and Learning : Develops and maintains a knowledge base, including a deep understanding of agency programs, authorities and resources and a commitment to learning.
• Strategic Thinking : Develops innovative ideas that provide solutions to all types of workplace challenges.
• Conflict Management : Effectively works with others to understand interests and actively strive to achieve agreements or resolve differences in a timely manner.

Statewide Equity Competencies:

• The ability to take action to learn and grow: Takes responsibility for knowing their own strengths and weaknesses and uses their learning to make government programs and processes more efficient and effective to serve all in Washington.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others: Flexible, adaptable, customer-service focused, and willing and able to empathetically respond to the unique needs of the people they work with and serve.

Notes:

1. This position is in Washington Management Service (WMS) Band 3.
2. This is a hybrid position. In-person work in the Olympia Office is required 1-2 days per week. The successful candidate must reside in Washington state upon hire.
3. Minimal travel is required to attend in-person meetings and training within Washington State.

Application Process:

Interested candidates must apply on-line and attach the following:

• A cover letter specifying how you meet the qualifications listed above (no more than two pages).
• A current resume.
• A list of at least three professional references.

Please attach the required documents in the "provide attachment" section of the online application. Only applicants who meet the required qualifications and submit all of the required documents by the closing date will be considered. Questions? If you have any questions about the position or application process, please contact Christy Sterling, Human Resources Manager, at View phone number on click.appcast.io or View email address on click.appcast.io.