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Accounting Position in Juneau, Alaska This position is open to Alaska residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify. What You Will Be Doing This position is a full-proficiency, professional-level role within the Division of Retirement and Benefits (DRB). You will analyze, summarize, and report financial data; maintain internal controls; and provide financial oversight of key accounting functions. You will supervise the daily operations of 6 Retiree Payroll and Refunds section staff, supporting the processing of all retiree benefit payments and refund distribution requests for all retirement funds administered by the Division. Using your accounting expertise, you will resolve complex issues and provide guidance on the practical application of DRB procedures and techniques to best serve our clients. The position is responsible for multiple account reconciliations and for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of related financial information. In this role, you will also learn the principles of fund accounting and gain experience with the timely remittance of federal income tax to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) along with all associated IRS tax reporting requirements. These accounting responsibilities will help build a strong foundation of skills that support future promotional opportunities. Our Organization, Mission, and Culture The Division of Retirement and Benefits administers the State of Alaska and political subdivision retirement and benefits plans. The Division of Retirement and Benefits continues to support the needs of retirees while providing customer services to active members. We achieve organizational excellence by focusing on the customer to deliver exceptional services using effective and efficient processes. The mission of the Finance section/Accounting unit is to provide timely and accurate financial reporting for the retirement plans administered by the division. The Benefits of Joining Our Team The Division provides its accountants opportunities for professional development, future promotional opportunities, and a strong sense of team. There are opportunities for growth and career advancement within the Division. Additionally, this position provides the incumbent the opportunity to learn more about managing your own state retirement benefits. After a 1 year probationary period, there is the option for a hybrid telework agreement. If selected for the position, applicant must be willing to reside within commuting distance of the City and Borough of Juneau. The Working Environment You Can Expect This position is located at 400 Willoughby, across the street from the State Office Building in beautiful downtown Juneau. The office hours are typically between 7:30 and 4:00 or 8:00 and 4:30 Monday through Friday. Who We Are Looking For We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies: Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; demonstrates initiative, effort, and a strong commitment to completing assignments in a timely and accurate manner. Works with minimal supervision, stays motivated to achieve results, and consistently models responsible and dependable behavior. Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations. Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports. 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 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. Additional Required Information Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission. This recruitment is for Alaska residents only. Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify. At time of interview, please be prepared to provide transcripts if needed 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 can be attached at the time of application or within 48 hours of the close of this recruitment to the contact person listed below. 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. WORK EXPERIENCE If using work experience not already documented in your application, also 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. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment. 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. APPLICATION NOTICE You can ONLY apply for this