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Job Description
JOB This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify. What You Will Be Doing As the sole Accountant supporting the Division of Risk Management, this position is responsible to maintain oversight of the State's self-insurance and excess insurance business activities, records, coordination, and management of financial payments using multi-system interactions and providing managerial accounting support for a $35 million-dollar annual operating budget and up to a $50 million-dollar catastrophic fund. We are currently only hiring at the Accountant 3 level. Our Organization, Mission, and Culture The Division of Administrative Services' mission is to provide budget, financial, and procurement services to departmental programs. This Accountant provides services to the Division of Risk Management, whose mission is to protect the financial assets and operations of the State of Alaska from accidental loss through a comprehensive self-insurance program. The Benefits of Joining Our Team We are a very small community of budget, accounting, and administrative employees. We offer a welcoming and professional environment to anyone looking for new challenges in an ever-changing financial climate with opportunities to work independently, and in collaboration with department staff on innovative solutions. The Working Environment You Can Expect Our Division office is located on the 10th floor of the Juneau State Office Building. We enjoy a convenient downtown location with beautiful views of the Gastineau Channel and cruise ship docks. Parking is available. Our small, friendly, supportive office staff fosters a fun, respectful, and productive work environment. This position is expected to largely work independently and also collaborate with other team members and vendor partners via in-person, telephonic, and/or electronic means. The Administrative Services team is committed to providing a supportive and collaborative work environment where all team members' contributions are welcomed and valued. The team highly values a healthy work/life balance and works to ensure that team members have access to needed resources. Leadership works to cultivate talent from within and provide team members with the tools needed to advance and develop their knowledge base and skill set. If you can see yourself in this position, we encourage you to apply!
EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
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 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.
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.
