Accounts Payable and Travel Specialist or Senior

Teacher Retirement System of Texas

WHO WE ARE:

Service, Respect, and Connection are core to the individual and collective TRS experience. We know that great service rests on a foundation of relationships that connect us all to an empowering and rewarding career. At TRS, we’re inspired by our community who bring authenticity and commitment to our mission to improve the retirement security of public education employees and retirees throughout Texas.

As a group of achievers, we tap collaboration and innovation to raise the bar in performance, administering and counseling pensions and healthcare benefits to ensure certainty for the future of our members. We invite you to join us, where both personal and career growth are respected and where you can make a difference in our members’ lives every day.

The Accounts Payable and Travel Specialist is responsible for completing accounts payable and travel functions. The incumbent will process purchase vouchers for payment of goods and services, travel requests and claims for reimbursement, reconcile and post payments to the agency financial systems, and provide assistance on accounts payable and travel procedures. This position will proactively work with the Accounts Payable and Travel team, Finance staff, and agency employees.

This position requires onsite work conducted at our TRS office in Austin, TX.

This vacancy will be filled at one of two levels – Accounts Payable & Travel Specialist or Accounts Payable & Travel Specialist Senior. Selected applicant will be offered the position that most closely matches their education and experience.

Salary Range

• Accounts Payable & Travel Specialist: $60,027.00 – $71,889.00
• Accounts Payable & Travel Specialist Senior: $67,081.00 – $83,852.00

• Submits supplier invoices and monitors the approval process within the Procurement and Vendor E-System PAVES.
• Prepares and processes payments and vouchers for regular and special accounts.
• Initiates wire payments.
• Assists with processing and tracking Enterprise Payable Management (EPM) forms.
• Reviews requisition submissions for accuracy.
• Establishes, maintains, and verifies vendor records on agency automated accounting systems and the Comptroller of Public Accounts Taxpayer Identification Number System (TINS).
• Researches and reconciles voucher payment discrepancies.
• May assist with compiling and responding to open records requests.
• Assists with creating and revising accounts payable procedures.
• Monitors the accounts payable email inbox for vendor invoice submission and address requests on a timely basis.
• (Senior) Serves as the Citibank Card Program Administrator and assists with MCC code errors, credit card requests, and ad-hoc reports.
• (Senior) Compiles and responds to open records requests.
• (Senior) Serves as the AP records liaison and coordinates with other Finance records coordinators to ensure compliance with agency records management policies.
• (Senior) Provides support to Accounts Payable & Travel Specialist in training and guidance in daily task and assignments.

• Provides training, travel assistance, and technical support to agency employees.
• Processes travel requests and expense reports within Concur.
• Establishes, maintains, and verifies vendor records on agency automated accounting systems and the Comptroller of Public Accounts Taxpayer Identification Number System (TINS).
• Assists with processing travel advances and voucher payments.
• Assists with creating and revising travel procedures.
• Assists with the Concur Travel and Expense System, system enhancements and maintenance, controls, and integration with CAPPS.

• Assists with compiling data for year-end close accruals…