> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/568478-accountant-3-pcn-060613](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/568478-accountant-3-pcn-060613). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Accountant 3 (PCN 060613) - **Company:** State of Alaska - **Location:** Juneau, AK, United States - **Salary:** $66,672.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Accounting Information Systems, Information Technology - **Published:** June 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7c001e53bcf7c2ca ## About the Role Do you have experience in Quantitative analysis? ## Description This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify. We invite you to watch our "Welcome to DPA" video here:https://vimeo.com/1023052645?share=copy What You Will Be Doing: As an Accountant, you will provide expertise and coordination in managing the department's financial requirements related to multiple federal programs within the division. This role is essential to ensuring compliance with federal regulations, accurate financial reporting, and sound fiscal management. Primary responsibilities that you will be doing for this position include: * Federal Program Oversight & Compliance: Manage assigned federal programs, ensuring compliance with grant requirements, financial regulations, and reporting deadlines. * Financial Reporting & Budget Auditing: Prepare, review, and audit program budgets, ensuring accuracy, proper allocation of funds, and adherence to financial guidelines. * Program Evaluations & Audits: Represent the division during federal program evaluations and audits, providing financial documentation and addressing compliance inquiries. * Grant & Fund Management: Track expenditures, monitor fund utilization, and ensure efficient use of federal funds within approved budgets and policies. * Collaboration & Process Improvement: Work with program managers and leadership to enhance financial reporting processes, improve internal controls, and support data-driven decision-making. Mission and Values/Culture: The Division of Public Assistance is committed to promoting self-sufficiency and providing basic living expenses to Alaskans in need. At the Division of Public Assistance, we work for the common good of, and earn the respect of, the clients, families, and communities we serve. We honor cultural, geographic, and economic diversity and seek community involvement in our decisions and service delivery., * Financial Management: Prepares, justifies, and/or administers the budget for program areas; plans, administers, and monitors expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs and policies; assesses the financial condition of an organization. * Cost Accounting: Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and methods of cost accounting, including the use of historical cost, market value, or present value to measure cost; methods for assigning cost to accounting periods; and cost allocation, cost accrual, depreciation, and unit cost * 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., 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 For specific information about the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at: Ciara Meek/ Accountant 5Email: ciara.meek@alaska.gov ## Related Videos - [Don't Be A Naive Developer: How To Avoid Basic Cybersecurity Mistakes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/498-don-t-be-a-naive-developer-how-to-avoid-basic-cybersecurity-mistakes) - [Enabling intelligent logistics automation: home-grown Industrial IoT platform at Austrian Post](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2018-enabling-intelligent-logistics-automation-home-grown-industrial-iot-platform-at-austrian-post) - [It's not easy being green](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/558-it-s-not-easy-being-green) - [From Code to Culture: Why Leadership Determines Software Quality](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1998-from-code-to-culture-why-leadership-determines-software-quality) - [POC Prison: Why agentic systems never escape the lab and how to fix that in 90 days](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100292-poc-prison-why-agentic-systems-never-escape-the-lab-and-how-to-fix-that-in-90-days) - [Opening Keynote: Civic Coding, A Framework for Democratic Tech](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/963-opening-keynote-civic-coding-a-framework-for-democratic-tech) ## Related Articles - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [Data Analyst Salary Austria](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/275-data-analyst-salary-austria) - [Data Analyst Salary in Switzerland](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/276-data-analyst-salary-in-switzerland) - [10 Highest Paying Jobs in Austria](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/268-10-highest-paying-jobs-in-austria) - [Data Analyst Salary Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/277-data-analyst-salary-germany) - [Software Developer Salary in Austria [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/213-software-developer-salary-in-austria-2023)