Job Description

Posting number: 2026-07026

Department: Dept of Children, Youth, and Families

Division: Financial and Business Services Division

Job classification: FISCAL SPECIALIST 1

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Accounting and Finance

Our vision is to ensure that "Washington state's children and youth grow up safe and health-thriving physically, emotionally and academically, nurtured by family and community"

Job Title Fiscal Specialist 1 (FS1) Chehalis
Location Green Hill School | Chehalis, WA - Full-time on-site, in Office.
Closes September 6th , 2026
Salary $42,780.00 - $58,392.00 Annually.

*The indicated salary does not include the on-site 24/7 5% premium pay.

Join DCYF at Green Hill School and play an important role in supporting the agency’s mission to protect children and strengthen families. This position ensures accurate time, attendance, and leave records while providing payroll support, conducting audits and reconciliations, and helping supervisors and employees resolve leave and scheduling issues. As a key connection between Green Hill School and DCYF Payroll, you’ll provide technical assistance, ensure compliance with policies and collective bargaining agreements, and help maintain the daily operations needed to provide a safe and healthy environment for youth.

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The Opportunity:

As a Fiscal Specialist at our Green Hill School facility, you’ll ensure accurate time, attendance, and leave records, support payroll, and help employees and supervisors resolve leave and scheduling issues. You’ll also provide guidance on policies and collective bargaining agreements while helping maintain the daily operations that support a safe and healthy environment for youth.

Some of what you'll get to do:

• Compliance review exercises independent judgment to verify and apply rules and regulations.
• Work with supervisors to solve problem and attendance source document issues and take corrective action when necessary.
• Consultation and technical assistance to managers, supervisors and employees on the appropriate use and processing of leave including using Leave Tracker.
• Enter approved leave request, overtime, standby, call back, part-time hours, shift differential and schedule changes into Leave Tracker and the HRMS payroll system.
• Prepare and enter fiscal calculations of part-time hours, part-time holiday accruals, shift differential, overtime, standby, and LWOP into Leave Tracker and HRMS payroll system.
• Audit and analyze leave balances in relation to the eligibility criteria for the various types of leave programs.
• Investigation of inquiries and problem resolution.
• Update Leave Tracker Property Screen with staff information as needed.
• Process temporary work schedule change requests.
• Main point of contact for Green Hill School and DCYF Payroll office.

Required Qualifications:

• Equivalent education/experience totaling three (3) years.

OR

• Three (3) years fiscal record keeping experience that may include Human Resource Management System (HRMS) OR Leave Tracker system experience.

AND

• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

In addition to those required qualifications, our ideal applicant will also have some or all the following:

• Demonstrated experience with HRMS, AFRS, and Leave Tracker.
• Demonstrated knowledge of basic accounting principles.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Washington State leave and payroll processes.

How do I apply?

In addition to completing the online application, applicants must attach the following documents to their profile in order to be considered for this position:

Supplemental Information:

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is committed to Washington’s children and youth growing up safe, healthy, and thriving. We invite all candidates to join us in our mission to create a diverse and equitable workplace that reflects the communities we serve. If you are excited about this role but you believe that your education and/or experience might not align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to apply anyway.

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, 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 service animal by a person with a disability.

This position is included in the bargaining unit represented by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE). For more information: https://wfse.org/

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

For more information about this position or if you need an accommodation throughout the application/interview process, please contact DCYF recruiter. If you're experiencing technical difficulties creating, accessing or completing your application, call NEOGOV toll-free at (855) 524-5627 or emailsupport@neogov.com. Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may call the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at 360-664-1960.

Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may call (360) 902-2276 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (800) 833-6388.

Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and wish to claim Veteran's Preference MUST attach a copy of their DD214, NGB Form 22 or Predischarge Certification (issued not more than 120 days prior to End of Term of Service (ETS) by date of submission). If claiming preference based on Predischarge Certification, individual will be required to provide their official discharge documentation, such as a DD form 214, NGB form 22, or equivalent, within 30 days after the date of discharge. Please blackout (redact) the social security number before attaching any documents. For additional information on Veteran's Preference and guidance on how to determine if you are eligible, click here

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