Accounting Technician 2

Family & Community Services; Wasilla (AK); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Family & Community Services in Wasilla, Alaska, is seeking an Accounting Technician 2 for a full-time role supporting travel accounting and related financial activities. The position involves making travel arrangements, auditing and processing travel authorizations, and handling travel fund requests.

You will work with a team to reconcile travel accounts, address vendor inquiries, and dispatch TAs to AT 1 staff. Knowledge of accounting principles is essential.

Qualifications

• One year of entry technical level accounting or clerical bookkeeping experience.
• Certification as an Accounting Technician can substitute for the required experience.
• Post secondary education including accounting credits may substitute for experience.

Responsibilities

• Support travel and/or accounting section activities (travel arrangements, TA auditing and processing).
• Process travel related Requests for Funds (RFFs) and reconcile travel accounts.
• Resolve vendor payment inquiries and dispatch TAs to subordinate positions.

Skills

Principles of Accounting

Analytical Thinking

Computer Skills

Decision Making

Self-Management

Education

Accounting Technician Certification

Post-secondary Accounting Education

Job description

Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

The Department of Family and Community Services, Office of Children's Services (OCS) is recruiting for full-time Accounting Technician 2 located in Wasilla, Alaska.

What you will be doing

As an Accounting Technician 2, you will support the travel and/or accounting section of the division. This position works for the Office of Children`s Services and provides essential services by making travel arrangements, auditing and processing travel authorizations (TAs), and processing travel related Requests for Funds (RFFs). This position performs travel account reconciliation, resolves vendor payment inquiries, and provides primary dispatch of all TAs to eight Accounting Technician 1 (AT 1) positions.

Our organization, mission and culture

Office of Children's Services strives for a diverse and inclusive workforce where safety and wellbeing are paramount and employees at all levels promote a culture where everyone is valued, treated equitably, and treated respectfully.

The Mission of the Office of Children's Services is: Ensuring the safety, permanency and well-being of children by strengthening families, engaging communities, and partnering with Tribes.

Everything we do is underpinned by our Core Values

Benefits of joining our team

The Office of Children's Services is committed to an organizational culture that values each team member. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. We celebrate and value the diversity of our employees, partners, and families we serve.

Your first 12 months in the agency are probationary and considered a training period, with formal and on-the-job training with your supervisor and your colleagues.

• Full-time benefits of this position include but are not limited to: Insurance Benefits; Retirement Benefits; Paid Leave; and twelve paid holidays per year.

Working environment you can expect

This position will be located in the Wasilla office. The successful candidate(s) will be part of a team which coordinates and fiscally reconciles Divisional travel for staff and families which we serve, and/or the Regional Accounting Team which processes all other support activities including but not limited to payroll, inventory management and supplies.

The Office of Children's Services requires staff to work overtime when deemed necessary. OCS Staff are considered essential and are expected to work during pandemic and other natural disasters. The agency also supports a healthy work/life balance for all staff.

For information on the Wasilla community (including schools, hospitals, housing) please review the Alaska Community Profiles.

We are seeking a candidate with the following competencies:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Computer Skills : Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
• Special Note All positions require valid ID and successful completion of a background investigation, including fingerprinting and a criminal records check.

Minimum Qualifications

One year of entry technical level accounting or clerical bookkeeping experience.

Substitutions:

Certification as an Accounting Technician from an accredited college will substitute for the required experience.

Post secondary education from an accredited college will substitute for the required experience (3 semester/4 quarter hours equal one month) if it includes at least 6 semester/8 quarter hours in Accounting.

Additional Required Information

At time of interview applicant is requested to submit

A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial are acceptable but must include the institution name/URL on documents provided) if required to meet minimum qualifications.

A list of three (3) professional* references including daytime telephone numbers and email address; at least two (2) of these must be from a current or former supervisor.

Professional is defined as a supervisor or an individual who has direct knowledge of your work performance.

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

EDUCATION

To verify education being used to meet the required minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials being used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial are okay, please ensure that the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application, provided at the time of interview or if not provided, transcripts will be required prior to appointment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in 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. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university.

It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

Omission of required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not already documented in your application, please provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selectio