Accounting Technician ; PCN

Position: Accounting Technician 2 (PCN 261004)
This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

The Department of Family and Community Services, Office of Children’s Services (OCS) is recruiting for full-time Accounting Technician 2 located in Wasilla, Alaska.

What you will be doing

As an Accounting Technician 2, you will support the travel and/or accounting section of the division. This position works for the Office of Children’s Services and provides essential services by making travel arrangements, auditing and processing travel authorizations (TAs), and processing travel related Requests for Funds (RFFs). This position performs travel account reconciliation, resolves vendor payment inquiries, and provides primary dispatch of all TAs to eight Accounting Technician 1 (AT
1) positions.

Our organization, mission and culture

The Office of Children’s Services strives for a diverse and inclusive workforce where safety and wellbeing are paramount and employees at all levels promote a culture where everyone is valued, treated equitably, and treated respectfully.

The Mission of the Office of Children’s Services is:
Ensuring the safety, permanency and well-being of children by strengthening families, engaging communities, and partnering with Tribes.

Everything we do is underpinned by our Core Values.

Benefits of joining our team

The Office of Children’s Services is committed to an organizational culture that values each team member. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. We celebrate and value the diversity of our employees, partners, and families we serve.

Your first 12 months in the agency are probationary and considered a training period, with formal and on-the-job training with your supervisor and your colleagues.

Full-time benefits of this position include but are not limited to:
Insurance Benefits;
Retirement Benefits;
Paid Leave; and twelve paid holidays per year. Please see the benefits tab on this posting for more information.

Working environment you can expect

This position will be located in the Wasilla office. The successful candidate(s) will be part of a team which coordinates and fiscally reconciles Divisional travel for staff and families which we serve, and/or the Regional Accounting Team which processes all other support activities including but not limited to payroll, inventory management and supplies.

The Office of Children’s Services requires staff to work overtime when deemed necessary. OCS Staff are considered essential and are expected to work during pandemic and other natural disasters. The agency also supports a healthy work/life balance for all staff.

For information on the Wasilla community (including schools, hospitals, housing) please review the Alaska Community Profiles.

We are seeking a candidate with the following competencies:

Self-Management
:
Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Decision Making
:
Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.

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.

Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving
: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or…