Accountant 4 Supervisor (PCN 187949)

State of Alaska•Multiple Locations, AK

12h•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. This position is being recruited for in Anchorage, Soldotna, Wasilla, Fairbanks, or Juneau. Pay will be determined based on location of selected individual. The Division of Environmental Health is seeking an Accountant 4 Supervisor to lead a small division-wide accounting team that supports public health and environmental programs across Alaska. In this role, you will guide daily accounting operations, support staff development, and help maintain accurate, timely, and well-documented fiscal work across multiple programs, grants, fund sources, and agreements. You will work closely with program managers and division leadership on spending plans, projections, reconciliations, grant activity, revenue tracking, audit support, and internal controls. This is a strong opportunity for someone who wants to pair technical accounting expertise with leadership, mentorship, process improvement, and meaningful public service.

Requirements

Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
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.
Internal Controls : Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques for establishing internal control activities (for example, authorizations, verifications, reconciliations), monitoring their use, and evaluating their performance (for example, identification of material weaknesses or significant deficiencies.
Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with uncertainty
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.
Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in accounting, budgeting, or financial management.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor the division’s accounting team setting direction for daily fiscal workflows and building a high-performing, service-oriented finance operation.
Drive fiscal strategy by leading spending plan development and projection cycles, consolidating technical files, validating assumptions, and providing strategic guidance to division leadership.
Certify and approve reconciliations, journal vouchers, budget revisions, line-item transfers, grant drawdowns, spending plan modules, and consolidated projection files.
Manage grant and revenue operations by overseeing the division’s grant inventory and reporting calendar, ensuring timely, accurate submissions and compliance with GAAP, organizational policies, and federal regulations.
Coordinate audits and enhance internal controls by preparing documentation, responding to auditor inquiries, and implementing recommendations to ensure accuracy, compliance and robust fiscal integrity.