City of Seattle

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Join us in shaping Seattle’s streets! At the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), we don’t just move people—we connect communities, build safer streets, and create a more sustainable city. With a bold vision for the future, we’re tackling big challenges: making travel safer, cutting carbon emissions, and ensuring reliable, affordable transportation for everyone—no matter who they are or where they live. Seattle is growing fast, and we’re growing with it. Thanks to a historic voter-approved $1.55 billion investment in transportation in 2024, we’re building sidewalks, fixing bridges, and improving transit connections to keep our city moving. We’re a team of problem solvers, planners, engineers, communicators, and field crews—bringing purpose-driven work to life. Now, we need passionate, innovative talent like you. Let’s build a Seattle that works for everyone—together! SDOT has an opportunity for a detail-oriented, finance-minded, collaborative people leader! As the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Manager (Manager 2), you’ll help shape how the City plans and spends money on major transportation projects. Working closely with SDOT’s Finance Manager, you’ll put together a six-year, $1.9 billion plan for transportation improvements (including the capital portion of the SDOT $1.55 billion 2024 Transportation Levy), keep track of how projects are performing, and give guidance to different teams across the department. This position will work with various SDOT division directors, managers, and staff at all levels internal to the Department and across the City to resolve financial and budget issues, highlighting areas of opportunity and risk to various stakeholders. The CIP Manager will also work collaboratively with the Budget Manager, the Project Controls Manager, the Levy Team Manager, the Accounting Manager, and Strategic Advisors within the SDOT Finance team. In addition, this position is one of the SDOT's primary liaisons with the City Budget Office and regularly briefs City Council staff on SDOT's budget and finances. In this role, you’ll lead the Capital Improvement Program budget group and manage a team of eight staff. You’ll oversee budgets, make updates when needed, review mid-year legislation, and prepare reports so leadership can see how projects are progressing. You’ll also track spending and revenue across more than 100 projects and 100 different funding sources, manage debt service , and work with outside agencies on funding agreements. This position is central to how SDOT manages its financial resources. By developing annual budgets and strategic long-term financial plans and evaluating financial performance, you’ll help ensure the department uses its funding wisely and meets the City’s transportation goals. The CIP Manager will also work collaboratively with the Budget Manager, the Project Controls Manager, the Levy Team Manager, the Accounting Manager, and Strategic Advisors within the SDOT Finance team. In addition, this position is one of the SDOT's primary liaisons with the City Budget Office and regularly briefs City Council staff on SDOT's budget and finances. What you’ll be doing in this role: Budget: • Leading the preparation of SDOT's Capital Improvement Program budgets. Developing, evaluating, analyzing, and implementing annual budgets and financial plans. • Working in partnership with the SDOT Budget team to develop the Department's annual budget, including creating and reviewing budget change requests, interdepartmental coordination papers, white papers, and other reports or issue identification as needed. • Supervising SDOT’s team that is responsible for monitoring and analyzing the Department's performance against the budget of the CIP, identifying risks and opportunities regarding revenues, expenditures, and other financial issues. Financial Management and Analysis: • Providing financial management of multiple federal, state, and local funding sources. • Driving trend and forecast analysis of resources to support actionable recommendations. • Identifying emerging issues and recommending corrective action. • Managing SDOT's Bonding portfolio and collaborating with the City Budgeting Office (CBO) as part of the Debt Management Policy Advisory Committee (DMPAC). • Monitoring annual debt service commitments to ensure the City maintains sufficient reserves. Partnership and People Management: • Directly supervising the CIP team, including the Finance Analyst Supervisor and two Grants Analysts. • Ensuring that the Finance Analyst Supervisor is supporting the Senior Finance Analysts in delivering timely, effective, and insightful analysis and recommendations to their business partners. • Partnering with the Supervisor and the Finance Manager to establish work plans for the team and for individual analysts. • Creating and encouraging a culture of continuous business process improvement. • Working in partnership with SDOT Accounting to ensure revenues and CIP comply with internal accounting controls, audit requirements, City policies, federal and state laws. • In addition to internal communications, this position must be able to communicate effectively and represent SDOT at a Citywide level, interacting with executive and/or management staff in the Department of Finance and Administrative Services, the City Finance Division, City Budget Office, Office of City Attorney, and in other City departments with capital programs. • Supporting department goals in promoting diversity and social justice in keeping with the City's Race and Social Justice Initiative. Minimum Qualifications: Education: • A bachelor’s degree in finance, business or public administration, accounting, or related field that includes formal coursework in accounting and finance fundamentals. Experience: • Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing budgets, financial and strategic plans, with at least 2 of those years in a supervisory capacity. OR: An equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the position duties. Though not requirements, strong candidates will have some of the following experience or are able to describe comparable experience: • Strong team building and management skills. • An MBA, MPA, or CPA is desirable. • At least 7 years of professional finance/budget experience as described above, with 5 years of supervisory/management experience. • Ability to work under pressure and multitask in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. • Ability to convey bottom-line results while maintaining attention to detail. • Ability to effectively work in a multi-cultural workplace with a diverse customer base. • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and present complex financial information in oral, written, and electronic formats to both financial and non-financial internal customers. • Excellent customer service skills. Expert-level proficiency in Excel. Proficiency in other Microsoft Office applications. Other Requirements: Work Environment / Physical Demands: • Work is typically performed in a hybrid work environment in which a minimum of 3 days of work is completed in a City office, and 2 days of work is completed remotely in a regular 40-hour work week. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Your application will not be reviewed if these items are missing or incomplete. Hiring Process Applications are reviewed after the posting closes. Qualified candidates must submit the following to be considered: • Completed NEOGOV online application. • Supplemental questionnaire responses • Cover letter describing how your skills and experience align with the stated job responsibilities and qualifications. • Current résumé indicating relevant experience and education. Offers of employment are contingent on verification of information provided by the applicant as part of the application process, including a potential background check. Please note this job advertisement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. The City’s full salary range for this position is $56.57 to $84.88 hourly. For more information regarding this recruitment, don't hesitate to get in touch with Ryan Jones at Ryan.Jones@Seattle.gov. The City of Seattle offers a comprehensive benefits package including vacation, holiday, and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance for employees and their dependents. More information about employee benefits is available on the City's website at: https://www.seattle.gov/human-resources/benefits/employees-and-covered-family-members/most-employees-plans. Who May Apply: This position is open to all candidates that meet the minimum qualifications. The City of Seattle values diverse perspectives and life experiences. Applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The Department encourages people of all backgrounds to apply, including people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, veterans and those with diverse life experiences. Accommodations for people with disabilities are provided on request. The City is a Drug Free Workplace.