Business & Finance Officer II

Business And Finance Officer IIThe King County Facilities Management Division Finance Division is looking to fill a career service Business and Finance Officer II position. We are looking for BFO II for Capital. This position will be responsible for managing budget, financial, and accounting activities for the capital projects program for the Facilities Management Division (FMD). This position performs a wide variety of complex accounting, analytical, technical, and reporting duties including overseeing revenue collection and financial monitoring of capital projects, grant reporting, accounting, budgeting, and reporting of various capital funds. This position will work with construction contracts.Commitment to equity and social justice: As the only jurisdiction in the world named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most influential civil rights leaders in our nation's history, King County is a vibrant international community with residents that represent countries from around the world. It is a region with increasing diversity that cherishes the traditions of many cultures. We have a deep commitment to equity and social justice and advancing practices, strategies, and policies that promote fairness, justice, and opportunity for all – in our workplaces and our communities. With this commitment, King County has adopted a pro-equity agenda to advance regional change and ensure that residents from vulnerable communities are incorporated into our emergency planning and public outreach efforts.Job duties include processing transactions necessary to track and collect the revenues associated with the major maintenance capital fund, providing revenue analysis and projections for management to support on-going operations and budget, reviewing expenditures, contracts, and processing year-end transactions, preparing and presenting monthly and quarterly financial reports, forecast, revenue status reports and any ad hoc reports as required, providing data, analysis, and backup as needed for the biennial FMD budget development process and supplemental ordinance requests, tracking and implementing adopted legislation, performing other budget maintenance activities such as cost projections, cost summaries and fiscal inquiries, analyzing/preparing or evaluating/approving journal entries, inter-fund transfers, budget revisions, troubleshooting, reviewing and approving capital project invoices in project management side system Unifier and EBS financial system, preparing bond compliance report on bond funded projects, preparing MMR Capital fund project expenditure reports for management team, and project managers as needed, providing backup and cross-training for other capital funds on the accounting system, reports, forms, and the accounting structure, serving as Division's coordinator and contact on all EBS & GL AME access requests, and other duties and special projects as assigned.Experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills include four (4) years of experience in accounting, advanced skills in budgeting, finance, managerial and financial accounting, analytical and management systems and working with financial information and financial and budgeting systems, knowledge and practical experience in the areas of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), operating and capital budgeting concepts and practices, government accounting and finance, contract administration and grants, revenue collection principles and practices and managing the financial aspects of a capital program, advanced level skill in Microsoft Word, Excel, skills in interpreting contract/agreement guidelines, mathematics, and statistics, assessing the financial impact of alternative decisions, quantitative analysis, problem solving and structuring financial models, skill in handling several projects or tasks simultaneously and understanding and following technical instructions, ability to communicate by expressing and conveying ideas effectively with peers and supervisors, including presenting data and detailed report writing, ability to work collaboratively with staff, peers, other County agencies and independently, organization, decision making and planning skills, time management skills, and project management skills; tracking and monitoring project activity. Desired qualifications include a four-year degree in Accounting, Oracle EBS experience, capital project and fund management experience, experience in a contracting, design, and construction environment, and Public Sector Budgeting and Accounting Preferred.Supplemental information includes competitive healthcare plans, free transportation options, manager support–structured employee assistance program, paid vacation time (in addition to paid holidays), paid sick leave, deferred compensation plan, twelve paid holidays, awesome employee giving program, and a team dedicated to serving one of the nation's best places to live, work and play. GovernmentJobs.com