Accountant 3 (PCN 187904)

Full Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

This position is being recruited for in Anchorage, Soldotna, Wasilla, Fairbanks, or Juneau.

Pay will be determined based on location of selected individual.

Anchorage, Soldotna, Wasilla biweekly salary: $2,646.00

Fairbanks biweekly biweekly salary: $2,725.50

Juneau biweekly biweekly salary: $2,778.00

What you will be doing:

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), Division of Environmental Health (EH), is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Accountant to provide professional accounting support across a diverse portfolio of funding sources.

In this role, you will support the fiscal integrity of the division through accurate reconciliations, compliant grant accounting, and clear, data-driven financial reporting.

You will play a central part in ensuring the division meets state and federal requirements by monitoring transactions, preparing corrections, supporting audits, and maintaining organized, audit-ready records.

Working closely with program managers, administrative staff, and Accountant 4s, you will serve as a technical resource for accounting processes, projections, and financial systems—helping sustain the division’s financial health and its ability to deliver critical public services.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conduct monthly reconciliations of expenditures, revenues, encumbrances, and fund balances across general funds, program receipts, federal awards, and reimbursable agreements.
• Research discrepancies in financial data, prepare journal vouchers to correct coding or fund source errors, and maintain accurate financial spreadsheets and documentation.
• Manage grant accounting activities, including drawdown tracking, match monitoring, eligibility verification, quarterly and annual reporting, and coordinating closeout documentation.
• Support financial analysis by preparing financial reports, entering actuals into forecasting models, developing variance analyses, and assisting with spending plan updates.
• Prepare and submit federal billing documentation and refunds, ensuring accuracy and compliance with required standards and timelines.
• Maintain audit-ready files, respond to fiscal data inquiries, and support corrective actions and process improvements that strengthen internal controls.
• Provide technical accounting assistance to program staff, participate in cross-training efforts, and support special projects—including fee studies, emergency fiscal operations, and modernization initiatives.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation works to conserve, improve, and protect Alaska’s natural resources and environment to safeguard health, safety, and economic and social well-being.

The Division of Environmental Health supports this mission by setting clear standards and providing technical assistance through a broad array of critical programs—safe food, safe drinking water, landfill and pesticides management, veterinary requirements and animal health, and laboratory analysis of environmental samples.

As a member of the Director’s Office, this position helps ensure the division’s financial foundation remains strong—supporting programs that protect the health and well-being of Alaskan’s and the environment.

Each day presents diverse challenges and opportunities to make a difference.

The benefits of joining our team:

When you join the Environmental Health Division, you will be part a team that values accuracy, accountability, information sharing, great customer service, and continuous improvement.

You’ll be supported by experienced leaders and peers who want you to succeed and grow in the organization.

In this role, you’ll contribute to essential fiscal work that keeps our programs running smoothly and supports services Alaskans rely on.

The working environment you can expect:

Several of our office locations have recently been modernized to support focus, teamwork and comfort. All our locations offer free parking, bright workspaces, and access to hybrid telework opportunities that help balance productivity and flexibility.

Across all our locations, you’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative team. You’ll work closely with administrative staff, program managers, and Accountant 4s in an environment that values accuracy, open communication, and shared problem-solving. It’s a setting designed to help you do your best work while contributing to the division’s financial accuracy and overall mission.

We are looking for a candidate that has experience in the following areas:

• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• 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.
• 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
• Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous improvement.

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 Notice:
Please email the hiring manager to request the Position Description.

Requirements

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 competency’s 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.

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 one’s 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 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.

Qualifications

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AT THE TIME OF THE INTERVIEW

• Three (3) professional references who you have worked with on a daily basis, including two (2) current or former supervisors, along with their daytime contact phone numbers.
• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial are okay, please ensure the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) to verify education.
• Copies of your two (2) most recent performance evaluations. A supervisor letter of recommendation may be used as a substitute for each evaluation that is unavailable.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT
The State’s 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.

THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY
Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, 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 used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. 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. state university 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 state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Omission of required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application and you will not receive further consideration.

NOTE: The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

WORK EXPERIENCE
When using work experience not already documented in your application, please provide the employer's 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. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment. A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position in which you are applying.

If you are currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level. Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position. This is required as there are minimum qualifications that require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered. If this information is not accurately reflected in your application this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application in its entirety. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

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.

APPLICATION NOTICE
You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via hardcopy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or any other database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hardcopy application to successfully apply. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" webpage, found here: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/help/

NOTICE
Questions regarding the application process can be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465-4095. If you choose to be contacted by email, please ensure your email address is correct on your application and that the spam filter will permit email from the ‘governmentjobs.com’ domains. For information on allowing emails from the ‘governmentjobs.com’ domains, visit the Lost Password Help page located at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword

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.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE
Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.

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Additional Information

For specific information about the position please contact the hiring manager:

DeeAnn Fetko

Administrative Operations Manager

907-269-7659