Accounting Technician

Job Description

Are You Ready To Make A Real Difference In The Financial Future Of Alaskan Children And Families?

The Department of Revenue, Division of Child Support Services is recruiting for an Accounting Technician 3 in Anchorage!

PLEASE NOTE:

THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO ALASKA RESIDENTS.

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• Managing key functions of the statewide Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Debit Card program for the Child Support Services Division, ensuring accurate and timely disbursement of child support payments.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving EFT issues while maintaining accurate setups and client account information.
• Assisting with the daily balancing of the CSSD trust account by verifying deposits, cleared checks, electronic transactions, and system-to-bank reconciliation.
• Retrieving, reviewing, and analyzing financial reports across multiple systems (NSTAR, TSO, banking platforms) to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Providing backup support to the Finance Section, including trust account reconciliation and other accounting responsibilities requiring strong attention to detail.
• Preference will be given to those candidates with demonstrated advanced knowledge of general accounting practices and attention to detail, as these skills are critical to success in this role.

Our work is important and challenging, and we are focused on making a difference in the lives of the families we serve. Your work will ensure support is collected and disbursed, and federal and department goals and objectives are met effectively and efficiently.

Our team is comprised of highly motivated, dedicated, and forward-thinking individuals who strive to provide excellent financial, analytical, and support services as part of a cohesive, productive, and positive group of professionals. We promote a healthy work/life balance and offer a hybrid telework environment after successful completion of the probationary period, along with flexible scheduling that promotes a supportive workplace.

Located in the Atwood building in downtown Anchorage, we are a large division consisting of 188 employees.

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

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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.

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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.

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Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

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Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.

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Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals

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Two years of technical level accounting or bookkeeping experience, of which at least one year was at the full-proficiency level.

• Certification as an Accounting Technician from an accredited college will substitute for one year of the required experience at the non-full-proficiency level.
• Post secondary education from an accredited college will substitute for up to one year of the required experience at the non-full-proficiency level (3 semester/4 quarter hours equal one month) if it includes at least 6 semester/8 quarter hours in Accounting.
• Post secondary education from an accredited college will substitute for the…