Accountant 4

Corrections; Anchorage, Juneau (AK, AK); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Alaska Department of Corrections is seeking an Accountant 4 to support internal audit functions and financial reporting. The final work location will be Anchorage or Juneau, based on candidate location.

The role emphasizes analyzing agency operations, strengthening internal controls, and developing policies and training related to IRIS and financial reporting processes.

Qualifications

• Competency-based minimum qualifications guide entry requirements.
• Knowledge of accrual accounting, obligations, and cost methods.
• Ability to analyze data, forecast trends, and prepare financial reports.

Responsibilities

• Perform internal audit functions and assess controls.
• Provide analysis and recommendations on agency operations and controls.
• Prepare departmental financial reports for annual reporting.
• Write policies, procedures, and training for IRIS.
• Ensure accurate production and reporting of financial data and compliance.

Skills

Accounting knowledge

Analytical thinking

Financial systems

Job description

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Administration & Support, is recruiting for an Accountant 4 position.

This position is being recruited in both Anchorage and Juneau; final location is based on the location of the selected candidate.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Internal audit functions
• Provide analysis and recommendations of agency operations and internal, management, fiscal and accounting controls
• Prepare departmental financial reports for inclusion in the Annual Financial Comprehensive Report
• Write policies, procedures, and training for IRIS
• Ensure accurate production and reporting of financial data, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and precedents

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

Administrative Services provides essential centralized oversight to the operations of the Department in support of its mission to provide secure confinement, reformative programs, and a process of supervised community integration of releasing offenders to enhance the safety of our communities.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

By joining Administrative Services, you will be an integral member of a team of professionals committed to the safety of All Alaskans. We embrace the values of integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement and take pride in doing our part for the Department.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Our central offices are in beautiful Juneau-Douglas with ample parking and a short walk to Sandy Beach and in the Robert B. Atwood Bldg. in downtown Anchorage. The work environment is collaborative and customer service oriented--our Team works as a tight knit group that values each other’s contributions and will interface daily with a variety of people including members of the public, field offices, other manager, directors, and the Commissioner’s Executive Team.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Accounting: Knowledge of traditional accounting practices including accrual, obligations, and costs methods
• 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.
• Financial Systems: Knowledge of the standards, architecture, and specifications of automated financial systems, including source documents, system flows, system interfaces, and related internal controls.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications.

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, as opposed to 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.

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.

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.

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

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

Copy of last 3 performance evaluations. (if within the last 5 years)

3 professional references with daytime contact information

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application.

Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicabl