# Accountant 3 — Health · Alaska Jobs [← The Board](https://alaskajobs.org/) · [Healthcare jobs](https://alaskajobs.org/jobs/healthcare) # Accountant 3 Health - **Location** — Juneau, AK - **PCN** — 068166M - **Salary** — $2,862.00 Biweekly (Range 18) - **Type** — Full Time - **Open to** — Alaska Residents Only - **Bargaining unit** — General Government - **Timing** — Year-round - **Posted** — 2026-09-15 - **Closes** — 2026-09-30 - **Source** — Workplace Alaska (State of Alaska) (synced) Job Description This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply. Welcome to the Department of Health. We’d be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today. This position is open to All Applicants. What you will be doing: As an Accountant, you will provide expertise and coordination in managing the department’s financial requirements related to multiple federal programs within the division. This role is essential to ensuring compliance with federal regulations, accurate financial reporting, and sound fiscal management. Primary responsibilities for this position include: Federal Program Oversight & Compliance: Manage assigned federal programs, ensuring compliance with grant requirements, financial regulations, and reporting deadlines. Financial Reporting & Budget Auditing: Prepare, review, and audit program budgets, ensuring accuracy, proper allocation of funds, and adherence to financial guidelines. Program Evaluations & Audits: Represent the division during federal program evaluations and audits, providing financial documentation and addressing compliance inquiries. Grant & Fund Management: Track expenditures, monitor fund utilization, and ensure efficient use of federal funds within approved budgets and policies. Collaboration & Process Improvement: Work with program managers and leadership to enhance financial reporting processes, improve internal controls, and support data-driven decision-making. Our organization, mission, and culture: The Division of Public Assistance is committed to promoting self-sufficiency and providing basic living expenses to Alaskans in need. At the Division of Public Assistance, we work for the common good of, and earn the respect of, the clients, families, and communities we serve. We honor cultural, geographic, and economic diversity and seek community involvement in our decisions and service delivery. The benefits of joining our team: The Division of Public Assistance is devoted to developing and sustaining a quality workforce by developing staff and encouraging career advancement within the agency. We foster growth and learning, believing that you can begin your career in an entry-level position, work your way through the ranks, and into the Policy, Administrative, and Leadership team of our agency. We provide a competitive benefits package, flexible work schedule, and job stability. The working environment you can expect: This position is located at the State Office Building in Juneau, 333 Willoughby Ace, offering a collaborative work environment where mutual respect and trust are valued. You'll join a team of experienced professionals who support the division's mission, and you’ll be encouraged to actively participate in decisions that shape your work. Who we are looking for: The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below: Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses financial condition of an organization. Cost Accounting: Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and methods of cost accounting, including the use of historical cost, market value, or present value to measure cost; methods for assigning cost to accounting periods; and cost allocation, cost accrual, depreciation, and unit cost Financial Analysis: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of financial analysis, forecasting, and modeling to interpret quantitative and qualitative data; includes data modeling, earned value management, and evaluating key financial indicators, trends, and historical data. To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Accountant 3 : https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/ classspecs Minimum Qualifications Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class. Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation. Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class. Minimum Qualifications Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in: Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information. Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary. Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. Principles of Accounting: Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, standards, and practices (for example, double-entry accounting, accrual accounting), including the full accounting cycle and the preparation of work sheets, financial statements, ledgers, and journals. Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues. Equivalent to those typically gained by: Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in accounting, budgeting, or financial management. Special Note: “Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation. “Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job. “Training” and “education” in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs. “Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act accordi [Apply at the source ↗](https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/jobs/5476978/accountant-3-pcn-068166m) ## Express confidential interest Alaska politics is a small world. If you can't be seen job-hunting, submit a sealed interest : the employer sees only your alias and pitch. Your name and contact stay sealed until they request an introduction and you approve it . 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