Accountant 4 (02-1086)

Job Description

This position is open for State of Alaska Employees Only.

What You Will Be Doing

The Accountant 4 is a senior member of the Department of Administration's fiscal team with a key role in keeping department-wide accounting work accurate, timely, and on track. A major focus of this position is oversight of Reimbursable Service Agreements (RSAs), including monitoring RSA activity, coordinating the RSA desk, following up on outstanding items, and ensuring agreements are properly established, billed, collected, amended, and closed throughout the fiscal year. You will provide guidance and training to fiscal staff, use IRIS and ALDER to identify issues before they become year-end problems, and help establish consistent accounting practices across the department. The position also reviews and certifies financial transactions, resolves complex accounting issues, and monitors recurring fiscal and year-end requirements. As a senior member of the Fiscal Section, you will supervise staff and provide backup and technical support across critical fiscal functions.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

The Division of Administrative Services provides budget, accounting, financial, IT, and administrative support that helps the Department of Administration's programs successfully serve state agencies and Alaskans. Our Fiscal Section works collaboratively with accountants and administrative staff throughout the department, providing guidance and developing solutions rather than simply identifying problems. We value accountability, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and strong partnerships across divisions.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

This position gives you the opportunity to take ownership of important fiscal processes that affect programs throughout the Department of Administration. You will have the independence to identify problems, improve processes, develop staff, and help move our RSA program from year-end cleanup toward consistent monitoring throughout the year. You will work with a small fiscal team and build relationships with division staff, and the Division of Finance. The variety of work provides opportunities to expand your knowledge of statewide accounting, financial systems, reporting, and fiscal operations while serving as a senior resource for others. Flexible work arrangements, including part-time telework, may be available consistent with division policy.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

The position is located on the 10th floor of the State Office Building in downtown Juneau, with views of Douglas Island and Gastineau Channel, and works closely with fiscal and leadership staff located throughout the state. The work is collaborative and fast-paced, with regular interaction through Microsoft Teams, telephone, email, and in-person meetings; part-time telework may be available consistent with division policy (2 days in office per week).

Who We Are Looking For

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

Developing Others:

Develops the ability of others to perform and contribute to the organization by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods.

Establishing Focus:

Develops and communicates goals in support of the organization’s mission; acts to align own unit’s goals with organization’s strategic direction and ensures people in the unit understand how their work relates to the agency’s mission.

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, as opposed to 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.

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.

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.

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.

Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.

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 according to one's own judgment.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

State Employee Recruitment

Applicants must currently hold or have held permanent employment status in any position in the classified service as defined in

Alaska Statute 39.25.100

. Permanent employment status is defined as holding permanent status in ANY job class in the current period of employment with no break in service (separation from State of Alaska employment) since the permanent status was earned.

At time of interview

, please be prepared to provide:

Two (2) most recent job performance evaluations or 2 letters of reference; and

Names and daytime telephone numbers of three (3) professional references.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is requir