Accountant 3 (PCN 07-1225)

State of Alaska•Juneau, AK

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position helps manage federal revenue, financial reporting, and accounting for federal awards from application through closeout. The role processes, bills, and distributes federal revenues in IRIS and helps ensure financial reports are accurate and submitted on time. This position works with federal agencies and staff across the department to keep grant-related financial information organized and up to date. It also helps answer questions and provide guidance on federal grant rules and requirements.

Requirements

Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with State and federal laws, regulations, and guidance.
Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in accounting, budgeting, or financial management.

Responsibilities

Manage federal revenue, financial reporting, and accounting for federal awards from application through closeout.
Process, bill, and distribute federal revenues in IRIS.
Ensure financial reports are accurate and submitted on time.
Work with federal agencies and staff across the department to keep grant-related financial information organized and up to date.
Answer questions and provide guidance on federal grant rules and requirements.