Accounting Technician 3

Job Description

Are You Ready To Make A Real Difference In The Financial Future Of Alaskan Children And Families?

The Department of Revenue, Division of Child Support Services is recruiting for an Accounting Technician 3 in Anchorage!

PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO ALASKA RESIDENTS.

Please check our

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

Managing key functions of the statewide Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Debit Card program for the Child Support Services Division, ensuring accurate and timely disbursement of child support payments.

Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving EFT issues while maintaining accurate setups and client account information.

Assisting with the daily balancing of the CSSD trust account by verifying deposits, cleared checks, electronic transactions, and system-to-bank reconciliation.

Retrieving, reviewing, and analyzing financial reports across multiple systems (NSTAR, TSO, banking platforms) to identify and resolve discrepancies.

Providing backup support to the Finance Section, including trust account reconciliation and other accounting responsibilities requiring strong attention to detail.

Preference will be given to those candidates with demonstrated advanced knowledge of general accounting practices and attention to detail, as these skills are critical to success in this role.

Mission and Values/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 disbursed, and federal and department goals and objectives are met effectively and efficiently.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

Our team is comprised of highly motivated, dedicated, and forward-thinking individuals who strive to provide excellent financial, analytical, and support services as part of a cohesive, productive, and positive group of professionals. We promote a healthy work/life balance and offer a hybrid telework environment after successful completion of the probationary period, along with flexible scheduling that promotes a supportive workplace.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Located in the Atwood building in downtown Anchorage, we are a large division consisting of 188 employees.

Who We Are Looking For:

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

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.

Attention to Detail

: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Interpersonal Skills

: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.

Teamwork

: Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals

To view the general description and example of duties for the position please go to the following link:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs

If you can imagine yourself in this role, we encourage you to apply!

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

**PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**

DISCLOSURE OF PRIOR STATE EMPLOYMENT

All employment with the State of Alaska

, including but not limited to full-time, part-time, seasonal, temporary, on-call, etc. positions must be disclosed in your application.

Failure to provide this information may result in the disqualification of your application.

REQUIRED OF ALL APPLICANTS

At the time of the interview, please ensure that you provide the following materials:

List of three (3) professional references to include daytime telephone and email address. One must be a current or former supervisor.

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.

BARGAINING UNIT

If you are a

current state employee

, please mark the union you are a member of at the time of application.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials and

must be attached to your application upon submission.

Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, provided they include the URL and institution name.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

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 the 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.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application.

Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from cons