Treasury Operations and Accounting Supervisor

King County; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

King County seeks a Treasury Operations and Accounting Supervisor to lead the Banking, Accounting, and Revenue Collections Team. This role involves supervising treasury functions, ensuring excellent customer service, and leading process improvements within a collaborative environment focused on community service and operational excellence.

Benefits

County issued laptop

Flexibility for hybrid work

Qualifications

• Experience in treasury operations, cash management, or related field.
• Strong emotional intelligence and conflict management abilities.
• Experience overseeing projects with a technological focus.

Responsibilities

• Supervise BARC team performing cash management and banking functions.
• Manage employee performance and conduct regular training.
• Lead business process improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Analytical Thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field

Job description

King County’s Finance and Business Operations Division (FBOD) is seeking a Treasury Operations and Accounting Supervisor to lead the Banking, Accounting, and Revenue Collections (BARC) Team. The Treasury Section is part of the larger Finance and Business Operations Division portfolio of county wide services. Operating as an internal service fund, FBOD’s vision is “Count on Us” reflecting the division’s deep-seated commitment to customer success, equity, employee engagement, resource stewardship, and operational excellence.

The Treasury sectionis responsible for performing the treasury functions of King County government and over 100 special purpose districts where King County serves as their ex-offico treasurer.

The BARC Team is responsible foradministering the master banking services contract, overseeing treasury management requests, performing cash management functions, warrant (check) redemption, and bank account reconciliation. This team is also responsible for collecting, depositing, reconciling, and distributing property tax payments, of over $7 billion dollars per year, that fund key public services within the geographic boundaries of King County. Treasury is also part of King County’s public-facing Customer Service Center where property tax and other payments are made in person.

The team is an essential component of the County’s efforts to maintain its top-notch bond ratings and access to municipal bond credit markets that enable the County to embark on large projects and programs in our goal to make King County a Welcoming Community Where Every Person Can Thrive! Leadership in County government includes managing a diverse group while exemplifying fairness, strong listening skills, approachability, and promoting a cooperative work environment. We are looking for someone who is passionate about continuously creating new ways to improve business processes and who thrives on encouraging others to do their best to achieve mutual goals.

We encourage applicants to apply even if they do not feel they satisfy all the skills listed below; we understand that it will take some time for the successful applicant to strengthen specific position skills where needed, to learn about the County’s systems, agencies, and to develop a deep understanding of the County environment itself. You will join a supportive team that will partner with you in these efforts; FBOD is an open, ethical, highly engaged, and collaborative community based on trust, transparency, and mutual respect. FBOD believes in the importance of quality of life, embracing diversity and equity, and making a difference. If these values align with your own, submit your application now and come join us for a rewarding career.

Our ideal candidateis an experienced financial professional that is known for their strong people leadership skills, providing excellent service to internal and external customers, establishing and maintaining positive working relationships, and leading business process improvement.

Scope of Job Duties
Supervise the day-to-day operations of the Banking, Accounting and Revenue Collections team (approximately 12 employees) responsible for performing cash management functions, warrant (check) redemption, bank account reconciliation, and collecting, depositing, reconciling, and distributing property tax payments.

• Hire, coach, train, and motivate the team. Identify, prioritize and manage staff workload ensuring adequate staffing. Ensure new employees are thoroughly onboarded, trained, and supported in their roles. Ensure that employees follow King County policies, procedures, rules and regulations.Recognize individual and team accomplishments.
• Manage employee performance includingestablishing performance expectations, deliverables, and metrics. Provide staff with regular coaching and positive and corrective feedback.Hold staff accountable for work quality and quantity and completing required training. Discuss individual performance with employees and recommend training and development plans. Conduct performance evaluations.
• Serve as a key advisor to the Chief Treasury Officer on treasury operations and accounting issues.
• Maintain and update financial policies and procedures including, but not limited to, those related to cash handling, receipting, internal controls, and bank reconciliation.
• Lead business process improvement and standardization using technology and other tools.
• Ensure all BARC processes have standard work and are updated on a regular basis in a shared repository.
• Model, promote, and maintain a healthy workplace culture of respect and teamwork.
• Ensure outstanding customer service is provided by all staff. Triage and respond to escalated customer service issues and complaints.
• Lead and oversee complex projects, especially those that leverage new technology and enhance the customer experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading, supervising and coaching employees to work to their full potential and capabilities in a treasury operations, banking, accounts receivable (AR), cash management, or related environment or function.
• Experienceunderstanding, interpreting and implementing state statutes, federal rules and regulations, codes, ordinances, and policies.
• Knowledge of auditing, internal controls and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS).
• Excellent people leader skills and models the way to promote a culture of employee engagement which supports the development, learning, coaching, and team building necessary for the workforce of the future.
• Exhibit a maturity and high degree of emotional intelligence when interacting with others. Manages conflicts well. Consistently exercises good judgment and exhibits a calm demeanor during crisis.
• Ability to think strategically and be analytical when understanding problems and anticipating potential issues while seeing the big picture. Ability to understand root causes of problems before jumping to solutions; good at anticipating and avoiding problems; uses data and metrics to drive decision making.
• Experience overseeing projects, ideally with a technology focus. Ability to advance and implement key initiatives to improve services.

• Strong communication, interpersonal, writing and customer service skills.
• Intermediate level of technology proficiency using MS Office Productivity tools in your daily work.
• Ability to manage your time and adapt to changing priorities, work on multiple priorities and projects simultaneously, meet quick deadlines, and produce timely and quality work products.
• Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and familiarity with government banking, tax collections, or public finance.
• Experience working with complex AR systems (over 750,000 customers) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle, SAP, or others.
• Experience working with external financial auditors and/or performing internal audits.
• Experience with LEAN processes and principles.
• Experience with SharePoint, MS Teams and other collaborative online tools.

The Treasury Section is part of the larger Finance and Business Operations Division portfolio of countywide services. FBOD’s vision“Count on Us”reflects the division’s deep-seated commitment to customer success, equity, employee engagement, resource stewardship, and operational excellence.


Position Information:

• Work Site Details:The work associated with this position will primarily be hybrid with 3 assigned days in office per week. Onsite 5 days/week for the month of April and October (peak period). In office requirements may change as required by King County business needs and for meetings/events.
• Location Requirement:Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to in-office reporting requirements.
• Work Schedule:This position is Exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and therefore is not overtime eligible. Employees are paid on a bi-weekly schedule, every other Thursday, comprising a 40-hour workweek; normally 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
• Union Representation: This position is not represented.

Employees will be provided with a County issued laptop. When working remotely employees must maintain a workspace with an internet connection (access may be supplemented in some situations) where they can reliably perform work, remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours, and follow FBOD’s Hybrid and Remote Guidelines including on-camera participation during virtual video meetings. King County has a robust collection of tools and resources to support working remotely.

The Application/Selection Process: The recruitment for this position is open to all qualified candidates. A completed King County Application is required. Applicants from this recruitment may be used to fill future opportunities in this job classification. We highly recommend that you also provide a resume. A cover letter may also give the application reviewer a better understand onhow you meet the minimum qualifications and why you are interested in this position.

The selection process typically consists of different phases: screening interview, virtual interview, and if successful, pre-hire requirements consist of reference checking. For some positions additional phases may also include skill testing, writing samples or additional interviews. Candidates will be updated on the status of their application via the email address used to apply.

Each phase is set for a specific day. Different times will be available for those days only. Please reach out to the contact below to confirm dates. Rescheduling interviews may not be possible.

Note: Online applications are preferred. However, if you cannot apply online, go to www.kingcounty.gov/jobs for other options.

If you have any questions or concerns while applying, please contact:
Michael Castro, Recruiter (HR Analyst)
Email: [e-mail]

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