Accounting Clerk Specialist Jobs

Who We Are

For 35 years, El Buen Samaritano (El Buen) has been a trusted community resource for Latino and immigrant families in Central Texas, serving more than 30,000 individuals annually through innovative, culturally relevant food access, health literacy, and education programming.

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The Accounting Clerk Specialist will report to the Director of Finance & Operations and work closely with our accounting team in supporting the organization’s day-to- day financial activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance and efficiency in financial processes.

This position will be on campus at El Buen headquarters Monday-Friday 8am-5pm with the ability to work a flexible schedule including occasional evenings, weekends, and events.

What You Will be Doing:

Essential Duties:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records in accordance with accounting principles and company policies.
• First point of contact for the finance team, communicating effectively with internal staff, board members and vendors as needed.
• Provide support to the team in all month-end close activities.
• Reconcile credit card statements, donations, checks received, petty cash and bank accounts regularly to maintain accurate records.
• Ensure allocation expenditures are allocated correctly based on budget and grant/contract deliverables.
• Organize and maintain hard copy files for AP: invoices, copies of checks and all backups.
• Manage electronic and hard copies of grants, contracts and agreements to ensure finance team has the most updated documents for reference.
• Post journal entries to general ledger.
• May generate summary sheets to be used by supervisor for audit purposes
• Schedule meetings for the department (including meetings with CEO, monthly finance committee meetings, annual budget planning with internal staff, auditor and vendors)
• Support finance team with year-end, quarterly and monthly audit preparations.
• Monitor and manage expense reports, mileage and check requests ensuring compliance with organization policies and state/federal regulations.
• Assist with accounts payable and receivable functions, including invoice processing, payment collections.

Other Duties:

• Perform special projects and other accounting duties as assigned.
• Participate in emergency response operations as needed to address community disasters.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Perform tasks with accuracy and efficiency in mind.
• Strong work ethic with a willingness to pitch in and show self-initiative.
• Understanding of and the ability to adhere to generally accepted accounting principles.
• Strong analytical skills: capacity to work with large amounts of data, extract relevant information and draw logical conclusions.
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Creatively and professionally solve problems and evaluate initiatives.
• Adaptable to a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Able to communicate clearly and follow verbal and written instructions.
• Understanding of state, federal, and nonprofit regulations

What You Will Bring:

• Strong team player with solid communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office (Excel and Word)
• Minimum of 3 -5 years’ related work experience required in accounting, office administration or management.
• Thorough understanding of accounting and bookkeeping principles and practices.
• Analytical skills and financial prowess.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills.
• High levels of integrity and ability to handle confidential information.
• Excellent attention to detail and numerical aptitude.

What We Can Offer You for All Your Hard Work:

• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 8 paid holidays are observed each year,
• Medical/Dental/vision
• You will accrue a total of 80 hours annual vacation time
• Winter Break in December (up to 10 days) through New Year’s Day
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Employer paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Agency retirement contribution of 5% of earnings
• Time Off Including
• You will accrue 1 day of sick leave per month of service (12 days per year)
• Fall Break in November (Week of Thanksgiving)
• A 403(b)-retirement plan is offered, for which you will be immediately eligible.
• Agency will match employee contributions dollar for dollar, up to 4%

Safeguarding certification is required to work as an employee at El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission (El Buen), an institution of the Diocese of Texas. The steps in this process help to protect the individuals who are employees; the children, youth or adults with whom you work, and the institution (El Buen) where you work. Our goal is to make El Buen a safe place where each person is treated with care and respect.

Criminal background check will be conducted on all final candidates.

The qualifications and physical demands listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations will be made in accordance with the ADA to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Job Type: Full-time

Annual Salary $54,000 - $60,000 (To commensurate with experience)

Please no phone calls or recruiters.

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