Accountant 4 (PCN 089048)

Job Description

This position is open to Alaska residents only.

The definition for Alaska residency is here - Alaska Residency, Recruitment, Division of Personnel, Department of Administration

You must meet this requirement to be considered for this position.

This position is based on-site at our Juneau Headquarters, located in the State Office Building in Juneau, Alaska. A Hybrid telework schedule may be considered following the successful completion of training and probationary period.

Curious about who we are and what we do? We invite you to learn more by visiting our website: https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/inv

Could This Be You?

You can make every calculation count. Use your expertise to strengthen Alaska’s financial future, lead with integrity, and deliver impact that matters statewide.

The successful candidate will bring strategic oversight into financial operations, ensuring the Division’s fiscal integrity and compliance with GAAP, GASB, and all applicable state and federal regulations.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Review and certify unique financial transactions across assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenditures.

• Lead and supervise a small, very talented, very skilled and close-knit accounting team.

• Manage and safeguard over $200 million in loan fund assets.

• Prepare and present financial statements and reports for internal leadership and external agencies.

• Conduct ongoing cash flow analysis and reconciliation between IRIS and LOANS, the Division’s loan servicing platform.

This is more than a financial management role; it’s a chance to shape the future of public lending programs and elevate operational excellence across the Division. This is YOUR chance to elevate standards and leave a lasting impact.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

The Division of Investments has an unwavering commitment to exceptional customer service and is exemplified through proactive engagement with our valued customers.

By fostering positive experiences and forging personal connections, we strengthen relationships within our community and across the state.

The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development’s mission is to promote a healthy economy, strong communities, and protect consumers in Alaska.

The mission of the Division of Investments is to promote economic development in Alaska through direct state lending in industries and areas of the state that are under served or to fulfill a public policy goal.

The Division of Investments, Where Purpose Meets Power

Imagine starting your day knowing that every calculation, every reconciliation, every strategic decision you make doesn’t just balance a ledger, it strengthens our entire state.

At Alaska’s Division of Investments, your work goes beyond numbers on a flat screen. Here, financial strategy has public impact. Your expertise fuels real communities, supports local businesses, and drives programs that shape Alaska’s economic future.

This isn’t Wall Street. This isn’t a corporate tower. This is a team/family-oriented place where precision matters because lives depend on it. Where compliance isn’t just a requirement, it’s a commitment to integrity. Where your decisions ripple across one of the most unique economies in the world, from rural villages to thriving urban centers.

If you’re ready to lead with clarity, influence with data, and make every number count for something bigger, this is your opportunity.

Our Working Environment

Step into a workplace where collaboration isn’t just encouraged, it’s the foundation of everything we do. The Division of Investments is a close-knit team that values trust, respect, and shared success. Here, you’ll find an environment that is:

• Friendly and Welcoming: From day one, you’re part of a team that supports each other and celebrates achievements together.
• Collaborative and Inclusive: We believe the best ideas come from open dialogue and diverse perspectives. Every voice matters.
• Professional Yet Personable: We maintain high standards of excellence while fostering a relaxed, approachable atmosphere.
• Mission-Driven: Our work has purpose, every task contributes to strengthening Alaska’s economy and serving communities statewide.

This is more than a job! It’s a place where you can build lasting relationships, make meaningful contributions, and enjoy a positive work-life balance.

To be successful in this position a candidate will need the following core competencies:

• Accounting Operations: Knowledge of general ledger accounting and the control/subsidiary account relationships and reconciliation techniques, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and disbursing officer's accountability.
• 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.
• Audit Reporting: Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques used to report audit findings (criteria, condition, cause, effect, and recommendation).

Minimum Qualifications

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• 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.

Additional Required Information

At time of application applicants are requested to submit:

As this position is our representative for the division’s Financing Section at meetings with internal and external audiences, making recommendations to higher level management such as the Director, Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner, as well as establishing new reporting requirements as needed, we request two (2) Writing Samples at the time of the application.

At time of interview applicant(s) are requested to submit (if not already attached to your application):

• Three (3) most recent performance evaluations (if available) or three (3) professional letters of recommendation.
• Three (3) current professional references, two (2) of which have had supervisory responsibility over you, along with their current day-time phone numbers and email addresses.
• If using education for purposes to meet the minimum qualifications, please include your university transcripts.

Education:
If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts must be attached at the time the application is submitted.

Work Experience:
If using work experience in order to meet the minimum qualifications of the position and it is not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

Multiple Vacancies:
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

EEO Statement:
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or (907) 465-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

Contact Information
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Contact Information

For specific information in reference to the position please contact the hiring manager:
Hiring Manager: Dawn Harris, Administrative Officer 2Phone Number: (907) 465-6371Email: dawn.harris@alaska.gov

Careers with the State of Alaska offer MANY benefits
The following information describes typical benefits available to employees of the State of Alaska. Actual benefits received may differ by bargaining unit or branch of government, position type, or be prorated for other than full time work.

For a quick breakdown of the insurance, health, and retirement benefits available for State Employees you can view an orientation video from Division of Retirement and Benefits. (Please note this video is specifically designed for new State Employees.)

Insurance Benefits

• Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
  • The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See https://drb.alaska.gov/help/plans.html for additional information.
    • AVTEC
    • Confidential
    • Correctional Officers
    • Marine Engineers
    • Mt. Edgecumbe Teachers
    • Supervisory
    • Unlicensed Vessel Personnel/Inland Boatman's Union
    • Exempt employees (not covered by collective bargaining)
  • The following employee groups are covered by Union health trusts. Contact the appropriate Union for additional information.
    • General Government
    • Labor, Trades and Crafts
    • Public Safety Employees Association
    • Masters, Mates & Pilots
• Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)

Optional Insurance Benefits

• Group-based insurance premiums for
  • Term life (employee, spouse or qualified same sex partner, and dependents)
  • Long-term and short-term disability
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment
  • Long-term care (self and eligible family members)
  • Supplemental Survivor Benefits
• Employee-funded flexible spending accounts for tax savings on eligible health care or dependent care expenses

Retirement Benefits

• Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Teachers' Retirement System (TRS)
• Matching employer contribution into a defined contribution program (new employees)
• Employer contribution into a defined benefit or defined contribution program (current employees)
• Contributions to the Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan in lieu of contributions to Social Security
• Option to enroll in the Alaska Deferred Compensation Program
• Note: The Defined Contribution Plan, Supplemental Annuity Plan and Deferred Compensation Program offer a variety of investment options

See https://drb.alaska.gov/retiree/ for additional information
Paid Leave & Other Benefits

• Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served
• Twelve (12) paid holidays a year

01 Please rate your level of proficiency in Audit Reporting: Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques used to report audit findings (criteria, condition, cause, effect, and recommendation).

• Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
• Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
• Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
• Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
• None of the above.

02 Please rate your level of proficiency in 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.

• Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
• Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
• Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
• Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
• None of the above.

03 Please rate your level of proficiency in Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

• Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
• Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
• Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
• Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
• None of the above.

04 Please rate your level of proficiency in 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.

• Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
• Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
• Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
• Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
• None of the above.

05 Please rate your level of proficiency in Federal Funds Processing: Knowledge of methods and procedures for processing direct and reimbursable program funds (for example, automatic and funded reimbursements, interagency agreements, transfer appropriations), grants, loans, and credit programs.

• Mastery: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed all relevant concepts, procedures, and practices and facilitate knowledge transfer to others.
• Fluency: Able to successfully apply all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have successfully performed the concepts, procedures, and practices independently.
• Literacy: Ability to communicate all relevant concepts, procedures and practices of the subject area. I have limited application or practice.
• Discovery: Awareness of basic/fundamental concepts, procedures, and practices of the subject area.
• None of the above.

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