Accountant 3 (PCN 05-2003)

As the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)’s Fiscal Officer, you will provide financial oversight and ensure effective control of the division’s accounting functions. This position is responsible for preparing financial reports for DVR’s various components, analyzing financial information for compliance with state and federal regulations, and supervising a team of accounting technicians.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture: We help Alaskans with disabilities obtain and keep meaningful jobs. We believe in the empowering value that employment brings to a person’s life, and we honor the strengths, skills, choices, abilities, and cultural identities of every individual we serve.

Within this mission, the Fiscal Officer plays an essential role that directly supports the success of the Division. By ensuring strong financial oversight, accurate reporting, and compliance with state and federal requirements, this position helps sustain the programs and services that empower Alaskans across the state.

Benefits of Joining Our Team: Joining the Fiscal team within DVR offers the opportunity to engage in meaningful work that supports the Division’s mission of helping Alaskans with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment. This position provides a flexible schedule and optional telework once permanent status is obtained, and depending on current business needs.

The Working Environment You Can Expect: Your office is conveniently located at the base of the Juneau Douglas bridge with plenty of parking and is adjacent to Overstreet Park. This position is part of a small team who collaboratively perform fast paced, challenging, and fulfilling work to meet the goals of the division.

Who We Are Looking For: We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Accounting Operations: Knowledge of general ledger accounting and the control/subsidiary account relationships and reconciliation techniques, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and disbursing officer’s accountability.
• Budget Administration: Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing, justifying, reporting on, and executing the budget; and the relationships among program, budget, accounting, and reporting systems.
• Financial Examination: Knowledge of the laws, regulations, principles, and practices that govern financial institutions (depository and non-depository) handling financial services transactions; analyzes financial statements, lending or loan portfolios, client/customer files, investment portfolios, and/or management policies and operations; examine for safety and soundness and/or compliance; identifies any discrepancies and determines necessary corrective actions.

Do you have experience in Journal entry management in accounting?, 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. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

3.93.9 out of 5 stars Juneau, AK 99801 $6,067.20 a month