Accountant, Accounting & Finance

Employer State of Alaska

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The Accountant 3 oversees both travel and expense and the accounts payable processing for DNR, performing the following duties:

• Performs supervisory and management functions, including workforce development, operational planning, policy development, data analysis, and program coordination.
• Develops, manages, and is accountable for maintaining a high-performance team meeting agreed-upon service level targets and performance measures.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for travel and expense as well as accounts payable processes while applying advanced accounting knowledge.
• Audits and certifies documents for compliance with the AAM, CBU, and standard operating procedures.
• Analyzes transactions and processes, identifies discrepancies, develops improved methods, and implements solutions.
• Responsible for end-of-fiscal-year activities.

The Support Services Division is a unified organization dedicated to delivering client-focused financial, budget, procurement, human resource, and information technology services to support all DNR staff and public-facing service programs. Providing superior customer service is at the core of everything we do!

The Support Services Division is a unified organization dedicated to delivering client-focused financial, budget, procurement, human resources, and information technology services to support all DNR staff and public-facing service programs. Providing superior customer service is at the core of everything we do!

At SSD, we take great pride in our positive work culture! We maintain a supportive and collaborative team environment that fosters professional development, accountability, and service excellence. Staff eagerly share knowledge and resources, look for ways to assist one another, and are celebrated for suggesting ways to increase efficiency in our daily work. Our team enjoys flexible schedules, hybrid telework options, and places a strong emphasis on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• Stakeholder Management:
  Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort; including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative).
• Reasoning:
  Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Supervision:
  Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and treated fairly and equitably. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.

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.

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 rather than specific tasks and serve only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

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