Accounting Supervisor (Accountant 4 PCN 187949)

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.

What you will be doing:

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), Division of Environmental Health (EH), is seeking an experienced Accountant to lead a high-performing accounting team in fiscal excellence.

In this pivotal role, you’ll provide strategic oversight for complex accounting operations, guide financial planning and projections, and ensure compliance across diverse funding streams.

Your leadership will strengthen internal controls, safeguard millions in public funds, and deliver accurate, timely reporting that drives informed decisions.

This is an opportunity to shape financial strategy, mentor a high-performing team, and make a measurable impact on critical public services.

The ideal candidate will bring experience in organizational accounting policies and procedures, GAAP, and a leadership style that elevates clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and mentor the division’s accounting team—setting direction for daily fiscal workflows and building a high-performing, service-oriented finance operation.
• Drive fiscal strategy by leading spending plan development and projection cycles, consolidating technical files, validating assumptions, and providing strategic guidance to division leadership.
• Certify and approve reconciliations, journal vouchers, budget revisions, line-item transfers, federal/RSA drawdowns, grant fiscal submissions, spending plan modules, Alaska Budget System (ABS) and Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS) financial system entries, and consolidated projection files.
• Manage grant and revenue operations by overseeing the division’s grant inventory and reporting calendar, ensuring timely, accurate submissions and compliance with GAAP, organizational policies, and federal regulations.
• Coordinate audits and enhance internal controls by preparing documentation, responding to auditor inquiries, and implementing recommendations to ensure accuracy, compliance and robust fiscal integrity.

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 supports the division’s fiscal integrity, which is essential to sustaining programs that protect Alaskans 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 lead high-impact work that strengthens division-wide fiscal stewardship.

The working environment you can expect:

Our freshly updated downtown Anchorage office is near shopping, restaurants, parks, and year-round activities.

It offers free parking and a private, windowed office space along with hybrid telework opportunities—giving you the best of both worlds.

It’s an ideal setting for doing your best work in the heart of the city.

Our office thrives on a collaborative atmosphere. With general direction, the Accounting Supervisor leads and coordinates a variety of division-wide fiscal functions, partnering with program leaders and administrative staff across the division to ensure financial information is accurate, timely, and well-documented, and leads the team to ensure consistent execution of work, successful outcomes, and alignment with division goals.

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

• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• 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.
• Internal Controls: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques for establishing internal control activities (for example, authorizations, verifications, reconciliations), monitoring their use, and evaluating their performance (for example, identification of material weaknesses or significant deficiencies.
• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with uncertainty

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.
• 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.

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 EMPLOYMENTThe 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 ONLYPlease be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

EDUCATIONTo 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 EDUCATIONEducation 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 EXPERIENCEWhen 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 VACANCIESThis 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 NOTICEYou 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.

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Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

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Additional Information

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

DeeAnn Fetko

Administrative Operations Manager

907-269-7959