Assistant Financial Business Transformation Manager, Management Analyst 4 (MA4) Recruitment #2024-9-A342 Full-time, Permanent, Represented position Location: Natural Resources Building- Olympia, WA

Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered *Relocation Compensation may be available and considered Salary: $5,643.00 - $7,589.00 Monthly * *Review of applications is ongoing. *We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment any time after 9/24/24. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.

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Responsibilities: This position reports directly to the agency's Financial Business Transformation Manager who reports to the agency Chief Financial Officer who leads the Office of Finance, Budget, and Economics (OFBE) comprised of these three teams that provide agency-level accounting, budget, and economic services. DNR's 2023-25 $940 million annual operating budget and $337 million capital budget are comprised of five (5) trust management funds, twenty-five (25) dedicated funds, and other state, federal, and private funds. With the agency's Business Transformation Manager and CFO's support, this position is responsible for leading OFBE's efforts to optimize financial-business performance across the agency, including division and region levels. This includes cross-agency collaboration with financial business managers to optimize and standardize policies, processes, tools, governance structure, supporting IT architecture, work integration, training curriculum, and communication mediums that will continually improve DNR's financial business operations.   This position will also serve as the OFBE assistant lead and expert for all project phases of the implementation of OFM's new statewide financial system, known as Workday, collaboratively working with finance business staff at all organizational levels and the One WA Support Team (AST) to transform the agency's core financial business processes and procedures to ensure successful implementation of Workday.   The role of Assistant Financial Business Process Manager will assist the Financial Business Transformation Manager accomplish the following:

• Lead financial business subject matter expert (SME) teams that design and implement new financial policies, processes, and procedures that will enable the effective and efficient implementation of all phases of Workday. 
• Use knowledge and experience of current statewide financial business requirements and associated processes, then leverage that knowledge and technical expertise to leverage Workday's functionality for DNR's program business requirements.
• Identify and mitigate or resolve constraints, implications, and consequences of required process and system changes.
• Obtain an understanding of the relationships and dependencies of DNR's business systems and processes to include knowledge of system remediation, interface, and conversion activities planned and underway.
• Research, perform analysis, and identify issues along with developing recommendations on how to best solve business problems and support business needs to include options, risks, and impact to Workday's successful implementation.

*Required Qualifications: *

An associate degree or higher in accounting or an accounting-related field such as auditing, budgeting, business administration, or accounting-related field. AND Three (3) or more years performing professional-level accounting-related functions; OR an equivalent combination of education and/or experience for a total of 5 years.

Experience and knowledge to:

Analyze processes, procedures, and associated