Accountant 5 (PCN 250028)

State of Alaska • Juneau or Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position serves as the Deputy to the Department Finance Officer overseeing operations in grants, projects, and reimbursable service agreements teams. Duties and responsibilities include analyzing, interpreting, and reporting financial data, modifying the accounting systems, establishing internal controls, analyzing costs and providing financial oversight and supervision of agency accounting functions in collaboration with the financial management team. This position serves as one of the department’s primary ALDER expert, report developer, and trainer. This position works closely with three other Accountant 5 positions and the department's finance officer; the five positions serve as the department’s financial management team. The team is responsible for setting policy direction, supervision, and management for the financial aspects of the department’s operating and capital budgets.

Requirements

• Competency in 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.
• Competency in Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: 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.
• Competency in 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.
• Competency in Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Competency in Decision Making: 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.
• Competency in 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.
• Competency in Financial Systems: Knowledge of the standards, architecture, and specifications of automated financial systems, including source documents, system flows, system interfaces, and related internal controls.
• Competency in 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.
• Competency in Technical Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in accounting, budgeting, or financial management.

Nice To Haves

• Sound judgment
• Decision-making skills
• Strong ethical and professional conduct history

Responsibilities

• Analyzing, interpreting, and reporting financial data
• Modifying the accounting systems
• Establishing internal controls
• Analyzing costs
• Providing financial oversight and supervision of agency accounting functions in collaboration with the financial management team
• Serving as a primary ALDER expert, report developer, and trainer
• Setting policy direction, supervision, and management for the financial aspects of the department’s operating and capital budgets

Benefits

• Career growth opportunities
• Dynamic and diverse work environment
• Training programs
• Mentorship opportunities
• Generous benefits package
• Excellent retirement plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree