SHERIFF'S OFFICE FISCAL SUPPORT TECHNICIAN

Join a Team Where Your Fiscal Expertise Truly Makes an Impact

Are you a detail-driven fiscal professional looking for a role where your accuracy, integrity, and organizational skills will be valued every day? The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a Fiscal Support Technician who thrives in a fast-paced environment, delivers exceptional customer service, and takes pride in supporting essential public-safety operations.

In this role, you won’t just process numbers, you’ll help keep our organization running smoothly and efficiently. If you’re ready to apply your fiscal skills in a meaningful way, we encourage you to explore this opportunity.

This recruitment will fill a current vacancy and establish an eligibility register for future Fiscal Support Technician positions within the Sheriff’s Office.

• Two years of general fiscal/accounting experience.
• Related education demonstrating required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job may substitute for up to six months of experience.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Two years of work experience in a fiscal office performing bookkeeping/payroll maintenance including use of a computerized financial management system (FMS).
• Payroll and/or AR/AP experience using automated (electronic) bookkeeping methods.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Experience using Workday HMS and FMS software
• Governmental Accounting Experience

• The successful incumbent will or may have unsupervised access to a secured/confidential facility or computer system(s). As a result, Kitsap County will be conducting an extensive criminal background check by law enforcement agencies, which will include fingerprinting. 

• Reaching above and/or below shoulders and handling/grasping documents.
• Sitting and/or standing for short or extended periods of time.
• Clear speaking and adequate hearing sufficient to communicate effectively and respond appropriately in-person, on the telephone, or using other electronic media.
• Vision sufficient to read source materials, to read computer.
• Repetitive motions for computer.
• Requires exertion of force of 20 pounds occasionally, 10 pounds frequently, and/or 5 pounds continuously to lift/carry/move objects, files/documents.
• The Sheriff's Office is a critical 24/7 public safety agency which operates in all weather and emergency conditions. The incumbent may be required to respond regardless of external factors.

•  Exposed to potentially hostile or uncooperative individuals.

• Process work in a manner that results in a complete and evident audit trail. Prepare comprehensive and accurate documentation of transactions and adjustments.
• Maintain departmental records, including budget and/or financial records, reports, documents and files for assigned accounts or funds in accordance with RCW's, WAC's procedures and County policies. May include grant accounting support.
• Prepare, post, calculate, verify, balance, audit, reconcile and correct journal entries and financial and statistical data and accounts.
• Maintain files ensuring that all documentation is filed appropriately and accessible. Files are maintained, archived and destroyed pursuant to Washington State retention schedule.
• Process accounts payable, including reconciliation of vendor statements, verification of invoices against supporting documentation, coding and processing invoices for payment, and investigating and resolving discrepancies. Coordinate department purchases and maintain purchase order records.
• Process accounts receivable; including preparation of billings, tracking and reconciling bills and payments, and preparing and processing inter-fund transfers and deposits. Accurately maintain customer accounts, including aging accounts and collection of past due balances. Conduct collections activities which may include initiating liens against delinquent accounts. 
• Process departmental payroll; including data entry, reviewing and auditing payroll records in compliance with laws, County policies, collective bargaining agreements and the Personnel Manual. Track employee pay records, time entry, leave, schedules, holidays and absences. Research and resolve issues related to employee pay and leave balances.
• Prepare, process, review, maintain and distribute correspondence, memoranda, reports, checks, warrants, purchase orders, bids, invoices, vouchers, bills, requisitions and other documents.
• Provide historical, current and forecasted financial information as needed.
• Utilize computers and other office equipment to prepare and distribute records and documents.
• Train and/or orient staff on areas of responsibility and within scope of authority; including time entry, accounts payable procedures, etc.
• May assist in audits conducted by State Examiners or other auditors.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.