Accounting Technician 3

Job Description

The recruitment period for this vacancy has been extended. If you have already applied there is no need to reapply.

This position is open to Alaska residents only.

The definition for Alaska residency is here -

Alaska Residency, Recruitment, Division of Personnel, Department of Administration

You must meet this requirement to be considered for this position.

What You Will Be Doing:

Supervises, trains, evaluates, and delegates duties to staff in the Audit and Adjustment section.

Monitors staff performance and the execution of assigned audit and adjustment accounting activities.

Plans short and long-term goals and develops staffing plans.

Assign duties to positions, coordinating workflow with other units, and controlling resource use.

Ensures efficient completion of accounting audit and adjustment activities through staff's performance.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

Our work is important and challenging, and we are focused on making a difference in the lives of the families we serve. Your work will ensure support is collected and federal and department goals and objectives are met, effectively and efficiently. We are interested in your ability to progress and provide in-depth training, mentoring and advancement opportunities.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

In your role, you will have a direct influence on the agency's ability to attain federal and department goals and objectives effectively and efficiently. Along with the benefits provided by the State of Alaska, including health, and pet insurance and retirement, you will receive the benefits of in-depth training on how to do the work, multiple advancement opportunities, and a management team that empowers and mentors staff who are interested in progression.

This position requires in-person training, and office presence is required.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Located in the Atwood building in downtown Anchorage, we are a large division with 196 employees.

Who We Are Looking For:

Performance Measurement

: Knowledge of the principles and methods for evaluating program or organizational performance using financial and nonfinancial measures, including identification of evaluation factors (for example, workload, personnel requirements), metrics, and outcomes.

Supervision

: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.

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.

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.

Teaching Others

: Helps others learn through formal or informal methods; identifies training needs; provides constructive feedback; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a mentor.

Minimum Qualifications

Two years of technical level accounting or bookkeeping experience, of which at least one year was at the full-proficiency level.

Substitutions:

Certification as an Accounting Technician from an accredited college will substitute for one year of the required experience at the non-full-proficiency level.

Post secondary education from an accredited college will substitute for up to one year of the required experience at the non-full-proficiency level (3 semester/4 quarter hours equal one month) if it includes at least 6 semester/8 quarter hours in Accounting.

Post secondary education from an accredited college will substitute for the required two years of experience (3 semester/4 quarter hours equal one month) if it includes at least 9 semester/12 quarter hours at or above the 200 level in Accounting.

An associate’s degree in Accounting or Business Administration from an accredited college will substitute for the required two years of experience if it includes at least 6 semester/8 quarter hours at or above the 200 level in Accounting.

Additional Required Information

**NOTE: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

Educational transcripts if using education to meet the minimum qualifications of this position.

Typing certification (dated within one year) showing the ability to type a minimum of 35 gross words per minute with an accuracy rate of 95% or higher. Typing certifications are available at any Alaska Job Center location. Location information is available at the following web page:

www.jobs.state.ak.us/offices/index.html

Last two (2) performance evaluations. If unavailable, supervisory letters of recommendation can be substituted.

BACKGROUND CHECK

The successful candidates must pass a comprehensive background investigation, which includes a criminal history check.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

NOTICE

Questions regarding the application process can be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465- 4095. If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure your email address is correct on your application and that the spam filter will permit email from the ‘

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’ domains. For information on allowing emails from the ‘

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’ domains, visit the Lost Password Help page located at

https://www.governmentjobs.com/js_lostpswd.cfm?&topheader=alaska

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EEO STATEMENT

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