The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil & Gas, is recruiting for an Accountant 5 in Anchorage. 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 handles all North Slope oil royalty-in-value and royalty-in-kind matters, including valuation and volume allocation in accordance with statutes, regulations, and various settlements and decisions. The Accountant 5 primarily works with a team of royalty accountants and programmers to ensure royalties are reported accurately. Mission and Values/ Culture: The Division of Oil and Gas manages lands for oil, gas, geothermal, and carbon capture exploration and development in a fair and transparent manner to maximize the prudent use of resources to the greatest benefit of all Alaskans. This position aids the Division’s success by ensuring the State collects the correct royalties, which make up a significant portion of Alaska’s revenues. Benefits of Joining Our Team: This position is an integral part of the royalty team, which includes a larger team of highly skilled professionals, including engineers, lawyers, geologists, auditors, commercial analysts, leasing experts, and programmers. The Division of Oil and Gas offers a hybrid, flexible work schedule with continual opportunities to learn about Alaska’s oil and gas industry. The work on royalty filings helps ensure the State is fulfilling its Constitutional responsibility to collect all payments to which it is entitled. The Working Environment You Can Expect: This job is located on the 11th floor of the Atwood building in beautiful downtown Anchorage. Our office is a busy, professional environment with a quiet atmosphere. We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies. Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information. Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations. Reading: Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations. Click here to learn more about working for the Division of Oil & Gas. 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 rather than specific tasks and are used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation. Minimum Qualifications. Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change. 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. Financial Systems: Knowledge of the standards, architecture, and specifications of automated financial systems, including source documents, system flows, system interfaces, and related internal controls. 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 Credibility: Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise. 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.