State Accountant

State Accountant (02-4010) in Juneau, AK

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

In collaboration with the Finance Director, the State Accountants will lead the Accounting Services Section, Statewide Single Audit Coordinator and the Statewide ERP (IRIS/CGI Advantage®) Financial and Procurement Support Team. Your role will develop policy and administrative rules, advise on tax compliance issues, implement new governmental accounting standards, and produce the statewide annual comprehensive financial report. You will coach and mentor accounting supervisors and staff accountants, set performance goals and evaluate team performance.

The State Accountants are key leadership roles within the Division of Finance. Our leaders set the tone for the rest of the organization.

The Division of Finance provides the highest quality accounting, payroll and travel services for the State of Alaska.

Values: work–life balance, intellectual curiosity, learning from experience, technical competency, working together toward shared goals, and expressing individuality. The Division of Finance is a small, welcoming community of accountants, analysts, technicians and payroll specialists. We conduct the State's financial business with integrity, accountability, and a spirit of continuous improvement. In your role you will partner with the Finance Director to set and attain the goals and objectives of the Accounting Services, Statewide Single Audit and IRIS Financial and Procurement Support Teams.

As the leader of those teams you will handle the full range of accounting issues from GASB pronouncement implementations to ACFR.

We maintain a friendly and flexible work culture that believes in work/life balance. Currently flexible work schedules and in-state telework options are available.

You will enjoy a workplace with a view of Juneau's beautiful downtown scenery. Located on the 10th floor of the State Office Building, you are within close walking distance to coffee shops, restaurants, and numerous nature trails.

Core competencies:

• Leadership: adapts easily to a changing environment, helps others see a path forward, aligns work habits with the strategic plan, motivates others to improve performance and contribute to the strategic plan.
• Forward Thinker: eager to adopt new technology to reduce time and labor intensiveness of accounting procedures and financial reporting.
• Strong Interpersonal
  
  Skills:
  
  comfortable developing strong positive working relationships with team members throughout the organizational chart and with external stakeholders.
• Effective Communicator: clear, succinct, accurate and polite language; avoids unnecessary jargon and acronyms; empathetic to other perspectives; cognizant of non-verbal cues; mentally present in conversations.
• Accountable: takes responsibility and ownership for a problem, project, or issue.

Additional competencies:

• Strategic Thinker: steps back from minutia of technical accounting, sets policies, long-term planning, prioritization, risk assessment, visualizes new opportunities.
• Problem-Solver and Decision-Maker: demonstrates ability to have clear goals, identify obstacles, diagnose problems, lay out implementation plans to solve problem.

If this sounds like your skill set, or one you would like to develop, please submit a cover letter and application/resume through Workplace Alaska.

An active Certified Public Accountant license

AND

At least three (3) years of professional experience in government accounting. Experience working in an enterprise-wide accounting system such as CGI, SAP, People Soft, Oracle, etc.

Substitution:

• Certification as a Certified Government Finance Manager (CGFM) by the Association of Government Accountants;
• Certification as a Certified Public Finance Officer (CPFO) by the Government Finance Officers Association;
• A Master’s Degree in Accounting or Finance and at least one (1) additional year of professional experience in…