Accountant 4 Supervisor

Accountant 4 Supervisor

This position has been extended to allow for a larger applicant pool.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only.

Pay will be determined based on location of selected individual.

Anchorage, Soldotna, Wasilla salary: $3,306.40

Fairbanks salary: $3,405.60

Juneau salary: $3,472.00

This position supervises a non-supervisory Accountant 4 and may qualify for supervisory differential pay, subject to request by the union and approval by the Division of Personnel.

What you will be doing:

Are you an experienced accounting professional who enjoys leading people, improving business processes, and bringing clarity to complex financial work? The Division of Environmental Health is seeking an Accountant 4 Supervisor to lead a small division-wide accounting team that supports public health and environmental programs across Alaska.

In this role, you will guide daily accounting operations, support staff development, and help maintain accurate, timely, and well-documented fiscal work across multiple programs, grants, fund sources, and agreements. You will work closely with program managers and division leadership on spending plans, projections, reconciliations, grant activity, revenue tracking, audit support, and internal controls.

This is a strong opportunity for someone who wants to pair technical accounting expertise with leadership, mentorship, process improvement, and meaningful public service.

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, grant drawdowns, spending plan modules, 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 that help ensure safe food, safe drinking water, responsible landfill and pesticides management, animal health, and environmental laboratory services. This position supports the division through 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:

This role offers meaningful leadership work in a mission-driven public service environment. You will gain broad exposure to state accounting systems, federal grants, revenue management, projections, audit support, internal controls, and division-wide financial planning.

You will have the opportunity to improve tools, clarify processes, mentor staff, and help shape how the division's accounting team supports programs. The work is varied, visible, and important, with regular opportunities to provide guidance, support decisions, and strengthen fiscal operations across programs that serve Alaskans.

You will join a team that values accuracy, accountability, practical problem-solving, information sharing, clear communication, and steady improvement. You'll be supported by experienced leaders and peers who want you to succeed and grow in the organization.

The working environment you can expect:

This position is part of the Director's Office and may be located in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Soldotna, or Wasilla. Office locations offer professional workspaces, free parking, flexible schedules, and hybrid telework options.

The daily work is collaborative, analytical, and deadline-driven, with regular communication across accounting staff, program managers, administrative staff and leadership. DEC's workplace values emphasize service, problem-solving, communication, accountability, and respect, and our team works to reflect those values through shared responsibility, professionalism and support for continued growth.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

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"