Accounting Technician 3 (PCN 250066M)

State of Alaska•Anchorage or Juneau, AK

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position provides essential accounting, budgeting, and financial oversight support for regional project managers, upper management, and administrative staff. The role is responsible for assisting in the preparation and distribution of capital project development authorizations, developing capital project funding documents, and managing, programming, and tracking legislative appropriations.

Requirements

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.
Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
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.
Self-Management: 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.
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.
Two years of technical level accounting or bookkeeping experience, of which at least one year was at the full-proficiency level.
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.

Responsibilities

Process initial, amended, and closing capital project development authorizations by establishing project structures and coding in IRIS, ensuring alignment between project funding sources and State Legislative Authority.
Collaborate with project managers to identify funding shortages and available resources, prepare supporting documentation, and calculate and justify requests for additional funding.
Receive, complete, and respond to reporting requests from FHWA, FAA, HQ Fiscal–Administrative Services, and other internal and external stakeholders requiring project or financial information.