Assistant State Auditor 1, 2, or 3 (Walla Walla)
State of WashingtonAbout the role
Posting number: 2026-06748
Department: Auditor's Office
Job classification: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 1
Posting type: Open & Promotional
Categories: Accounting and Finance, Audit
Summary
Application review will begin on August 14, 2026, and you are encouraged to submit your application materials as soon as possible. The hiring manager reserves the right to close the posting at any time once a selection has been made.
About SAO:
At the State Auditor’s Office, we work together to make a difference in how our state government operates. With 15 offices statewide, we are looking for innovative, talented people to join our team to help us continue our important work. Get to know us! We take pride in serving various governments and the people of Washington State. Learn more about who we are and what we do on social media, using the hashtag #WeAreSAO and on our website at https://sao.wa.gov/about-sao/what-we-do.
Our Culture:
We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace environment that is collaborative and supports all employees as we effectively carry out the agency’s mission. This includes ensuring inclusion and equity throughout the agency, while embracing the individual differences of our employees and clients. We believe that diverse perspectives and backgrounds are fundamental to doing our best work.
The Washington State Auditor’s Office (SAO) prides itself in offering flexible schedules and a hybrid work environment that helps our staff balance work and life.
About the Role: Assistant State Auditor
Auditing is an excellent opportunity for innovators. It's your chance to join us in the search for new ideas to ensure our audits are relevant and provide value to the governments we audit. It's a career in which you can take pride in the work you do and the services we perform for the citizens of Washington State.
We are currently looking to fill an Assistant State Auditor position in Walla Walla, WA.
About Team Tri-Cities:
Team Tri-Cities is one of 17 local audit teams within the Office of the Washington State Auditor and is responsible for conducting audits primarily in Benton, Columbia, Franklin, and Walla Walla Counties. We also conduct some audits in Adams and Grant Counties. Team Tri-Cities has an office in Kennewick and a sub-office in Walla Walla. We perform about 120 audits on an annual basis. Our audits include accountability, financial and federal grant compliance audits and cover a wide variety of entities such as cities, counties, public housing authorities, different types of districts such as schools, fire, conservation, irrigation, hospital, health, library, public transportation, utility, ports, public facilities, and other miscellaneous entity types.
Team Tri-Cities seeks to be a partner with our audit clients through clear communication and mutual respect in promoting accountability, accurate reporting, and transparency to best serve our communities and citizens. Together, we want to make a difference.
Within the agency, Team Tri-Cities promotes the Office’s mission and values, and a professional, respectful, and constructive work environment. We value our team members and support them in their growth and development through a customized training program that fits their needs to help them be successful and obtain audit skills. Our training program includes internal and external educational training opportunities, online resources, one on one in person training and remote guidance. Our main goal is to work in the environment that is best suited for our individual team members and audit clients that offers the most support while promoting efficiency throughout the audit process. We want to empower our team members to perform their best
Diversity and inclusion are important to us. We appreciate the value and strengths that each team member brings to our team and consistently seek feedback from all team members to continuously improve any aspect of our team processes and environment. We are passionate about what we do, and our team culture revolves around being supportive, team-oriented, accountable, collaborative, and flexible.
Successful Assistant State Auditors come from many backgrounds. The primary competencies required for this role is:
- Written and verbal communication
- Time/Project Management
- Understanding of Accounting
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