Accountant 3

Alaskajobs; Anchorage (AK); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Hybrid telework

Work-life balance

Job summary

Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Support Services Division, is seeking an Accountant 3 in Anchorage. The role oversees travel and expense and accounts payable processing. You will supervise a team, ensure compliance, and drive process improvements to meet performance targets.

The position emphasizes ongoing professional development, a collaborative work culture, and flexible hybrid work arrangements to balance client service with operational needs.

Qualifications

• Analysis and assessment using information technology to access, collect, analyze, and disseminate data.
• Analytical thinking to address problems and opportunities with logical reasoning.
• Clear oral and written communication tailored to audience.
• Knowledge of GAAP, accrual accounting, and full accounting cycle.
• Technical competence gained through training and experience in accounting/finance.

Responsibilities

• Oversees travel and expense and accounts payable processing for DNR.
• Develops and maintains a high-performance team with service targets.
• Acts as SME for travel, expense, and AP processes with advanced accounting knowledge.
• Audits and certifies documents for compliance with procedures.
• Analyzes transactions, identifies discrepancies, and implements improvements.
• Manages end-of-fiscal-year activities.

Skills

Analysis & Assessment

Analytical Thinking

Oral & Written Communication

Principles of Accounting

Technical Competence

Education

Post-secondary education in accounting/finance

Job description

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Support Services Division

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is recruiting for an Accountant 3 in Anchorage.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:

The Accountant 3 oversees both travel and expense and the accounts payable processing for DNR, performing the following duties:

• Performs supervisory and management functions, including workforce development, operational planning, policy development, data analysis, and program coordination.
• Develops, manages, and is accountable for maintaining a high-performance team meeting agreed-upon service level targets and performance measures.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for travel and expense as well as accounts payable processes while applying advanced accounting knowledge.
• Audits and certifies documents for compliance with the AAM, CBU, and standard operating procedures.
• Analyzes transactions and processes, identifies discrepancies, develops improved methods, and implements solutions.
• Responsible for end-of-fiscal-year activities.

Mission and Values/Culture:

The Support Services Division is a unified organization dedicated to delivering client-focused financial, budget, procurement, human resource, and information technology services to support all DNR staff and public-facing service programs. Providing superior customer service is at the core of everything we do!

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

The Support Services Division is a unified organization dedicated to delivering client-focused financial, budget, procurement, human resources, and information technology services to support all DNR staff and public-facing service programs. Providing superior customer service is at the core of everything we do!

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

At SSD, we take great pride in our positive work culture! We maintain a supportive and collaborative team environment that fosters professional development, accountability, and service excellence. Staff eagerly share knowledge and resources, look for ways to assist one another, and are celebrated for suggesting ways to increase efficiency in our daily work. Our team enjoys flexible schedules, hybrid telework options, and places a strong emphasis on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.

Stakeholder Management: Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort; including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative).

Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.

Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and treated fairly and equitably. 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.

Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and serve only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in

• Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Any combination of preparatory post-secondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in accounting, budgeting, or financial management.

Special Note:

"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

"Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

** Please read the information below carefully. **

At the time of the interview

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please bring the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:

• Three most recent evaluations or letters of recommendation
• List of three professional references with current contact information