Accountant 3/4 Flex (PCN 20-6607)
Accountant 3/4 Flex (PCN 20-6607)
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Job Description
Job Description
- The Department of Corrections Division of Administration & Support is recruiting for an Accountant 3/4 position located in Juneau Alaska.Watch Alaska DOCs video here:
What You Will Be Doing:
As an Accountant 3 you will receive training to perform the full range of duties and as an Accountant 4 you will be fully proficient in all of the following duties:
- Internal audit functions
- Provide analysis and recommendations of agency operations and internal management fiscal and accounting controls.
- Prepare departmental financial reports for inclusion in the Annual Financial Comprehensive Report.
- Write policies procedures and training for IRIS.
- Ensure accurate production and reporting of financial data and compliance with applicable laws regulations and precedents.
Our Mission Values and Culture:
Administrative Services provides essential centralized oversight to the operations of the Department in support of its mission to provide secure confinement reformative programs and a process of supervised community integration of releasing offenders to enhance the safety of our communities.
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
By joining the Accounting/Finance Team you will be an integral member of the Division of Administrative Services. We embrace the values of integrity accountability and continuous improvement and take pride in doing our part to support the Departments mission.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:
Our central offices are in beautiful JuneauDouglas with ample parking and a short walk to Sandy Beach. The work environment is collaborative and customer service orientedour Team works as a tight knit group that values each others contributions and will interface daily with a variety of people including members of the public field offices other manager directors and the Commissioners Office.
Who We Are Looking For:
We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:
- Accounting: Knowledge of traditional accounting practices including accrual obligations and costs methods
- Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical systematic sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on ones knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
- Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive onthejob experience to perform ones job; works with understands and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
Minimum Qualifications
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 competencys 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.
Accountant 3
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 ones 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 onthejob experience to perform ones 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 postsecondary education and/or progressively responsible professional level experience in accounting budgeting or financial management.
Accountant 4
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 onthejob experience to perform ones job; works with understands and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
- Equivalent to those typically gained by:
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 online selfstudy and onthejob) from accredited and unaccredited sources and longduration (such as a postsecondary degree) and shortduration (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 professions principles concepts theories and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to ones own judgment.
Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity difficulty or level of responsibility.Additional Required Information
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
If selected for an interview the applicant must provide the following:
- Copy of last 3 performance evaluations.
- 3 professional references with daytime contact information.
EDUCATION
If postsecondary 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 can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview at the discretion of the hiring manager.
LEGAL EMPLOYMENT
The States online recruitment system Workplace Alaska requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
Education completed in foreign colleges universities or high schools may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. postsecondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the postsecondary institution or high school. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
WORK EXPERIENCE
If using work experience not already documented in your application also provide the employer name your job title dates of employment and whether fullor parttime. 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.
Note:Attaching a resume is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting see resume or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.
FINGERPRINT NOTICE
All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.
FLEXIBLY STAFFED
This position is flexibly staffed. The level of the job offer will be based on the selected candidates credibly possessed and proven competencies. If hired at the lower level you will be promoted to the higher level after completing the training plan and demonstrating competency in the work.
CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS
Please be aware this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN)/Alaska Corrections Offender Management System (ACOMS). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN/ACOMS. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.
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 callorin Juneau or (907)(TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P. O. Box 110201 Juneau AK. The State of Alaska is an equalopportunity employer.
WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE
Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at(tollfree) or (907)if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to
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Employment Type
Full-Time
