Accounts Payable Accountant V

Career Opportunities:
Accounts Payable Accountant V (16984)

Posting  
16984
-Posted
- Dept of Family & Protectve Svc

- Accounting

- Business and Financial Operations

- Eligible for Telework
- $3000 - $4999 per month

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) works to build on strengths of families and communities to keep children and vulnerable adults safe, so they thrive. We do this through investigations, services, and referrals.

What You Get Beyond Your Paycheck

When you join the State of Texas, your monthly paycheck is just one part of your real income. Our benefits provide extra value that many private employers simply don’t match—often adding hundreds of dollars each month to what you take home or save.

Here’s what you get as a full-time employee:

• 100% paid health insurance for you, and 50% paid for eligible family members—saving you hundreds every month in out-of-pocket medical costs
• Retirement plans with lifetime monthly payments after five years of state service, plus options to save even more with 401(k) and 457 plans
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave so you can recharge and take care of life outside work (that’s time off you’re actually paid for)
• Optional dental, vision, and life insurance —at rates much lower than most private plans
• Flexible spending accounts for added tax savings on health and dependent care
• Employee discounts on things like gym memberships, electronics, and entertainment

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  Title:
  
  Accounts Payable Accountant V
• Job Title: Accountant V Payable
• Agency: Dept of Family & Protectve Svc
• Department: Accounting
• Posting Number: 16984
• Closing Date: 06/12/2026
• Posting Audience: Internal and External
• Occupational Category: Business and Financial Operations
• Salary Range: $4,801.16-$7,761.50
• Pay Frequency: Monthly
• Salary Group: TEXAS-B-22
• Shift: Day
• Additional Shift: None
• Telework: Eligible for Telework
• Travel: Up to 10%
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• Full Time/Part Time: Full time
• FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Nonexempt
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  Location:
  
  
• Job Location City: AUSTIN
• Job Location Address: 4900 N LAMAR BLVD
• Other Locations: None
• MOS Codes: X,651X,751X,,A,70C,90A,36B,89A,65FX,65WX,6F0X1,F&S,FIN
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Brief

Job Description:

The position performs advance/complex accounting work. Work involves the processing of agency expenditures, including audit/quality assurance of vouchers and workflows. Assist with planning, organizing, and implementing payable workflows; lead the coordination of voucher corrections and adjustments, and the reconciliation between CAPPS Financials, and the Uniform statewide accounting system (USAS), and agency applications/data bases.

This position must understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts mandates, technical, budget, procurement, and contract specifications to ensure accurate and timely processing of expenditures; responsible for advising staff on method of finance, account codes, and contract compliance. Responsible for monitoring proposed changes in state and federal regulations to determine potential impact on the agency from both a technical and functional perspective.

This position will run queries, assist with query development, create, maintain, and review reports; research and analyze data and reconciliation discrepancies and will work with various units for a resolution. Communicate on a complex level with others (internally and externally) to provide, exchange or verify information, answer inquiries, address issues, and resolve problems or complaints. Works under minimal direction with considerable latitude for use of initiative and independent judgement.

Essential Job Functions (EJFs):

40% Responsible for researching and responding to agency and vendor inquiries in a timely manner. Responsible for researching, analyzing, and reconciling discrepancies to inform improved controls and processes. Develops and/or runs queries for extraction of accounting reconciliations between internal and external accounting systems.

30% Adheres to voucher processes and timelines, quality controls, including budget checking/voucher approval and the coordination of voucher corrections/adjustments. Acts as a…