Accountant 3/4 (PCN 060626)

State of Alaska; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Alaska in Juneau, AK seeks an Accountant 3/4 to oversee federal grant reporting and financial analysis for core division programs. The role ensures compliance with federal/state reporting requirements and involves recording and reporting functions for multiple grants.

The position supports lifesaving programs and provides opportunities for professional growth within the Department of Health. It is located downtown Juneau, on-site, with standard state employment benefits.

Qualifications

• Uses information technology to access, collect, analyze, maintain, and disseminate data.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving to interpret data and improve processes.
• Oral and written communication tailored to audience, including presentations and reports.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and the full accounting cycle.

Responsibilities

• Oversee federal grant reporting and financial analysis for core division programs.
• Handle federal accounting, recording, and reporting functions for grants and programs.
• Ensure compliance with state and federal reporting requirements, including submission of federally mandated reports.

Skills

Analysis and Assessment

Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving

Oral and Written Communication

Principles of Accounting

Technical Competence

Financial Analysis

Reasoning

Job description

Accountant 3/4 (PCN 060626) in Juneau, AK

What you will be doing

In this role, you will oversee the federal grant reporting and financial analysis for core division programs. This includes federal accounting, recording, and reporting functions for the numerous federal grants and programs administered while ensuring compliance with state and federal reporting requirements, including the submission of federally mandated reports.

Our organization, mission, and culture

Our mission is simple and powerful: to advance the health, well‑being, and self‑sufficiency of Alaskans. As an Accountant 3/4, you’ll turn that mission into action by guiding the resources that make lifesaving programs possible.

The benefits of joining our team

The Department of Health has a fun team of colleagues who value teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. You will find appreciation and purpose in a department that cherishes creativity, input, and opinions. Find your home here, where there is always room for professional growth and learning opportunities.

The working environment you can expect

We are centrally located in beautiful downtown Juneau, close to shopping, dining, hiking trails, and the waterfront. This position is located on the 4th floor of the Alaska Office Building.

Who we are looking for

• 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.
• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.

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 Descriptions: The competency descriptions 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 are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

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

Additional Required Information

• Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone, are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
• Current performance evaluation, if available.
• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.

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: 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, online, 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.

EEO Statement

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal‑opportunity employer.

Contact Information

For specific information in reference to the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:

Sierra Mow, Accountant 5
907-465-1350
[e-mail]

Phone [phone] (Statewide toll‑free number)
[phone] (Juneau and out‑of‑state callers)