Specialist - Accounts Payable

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Specialist
- Accounts Payable

• Position Type:
  Leading District Professional/ Specialist
  - District Professional
• Date Posted: 10/16/2026
• Location:
  
  District Service Center
• Closing Date: 10/30/2026

Reports to: Manager
- Accounts Payable
Salary Range: $43,976 - $52,982
Pay Grade: 705
Duty Days: 239
PCN:
FLSA Status:Non-Exempt

Performs complex, specialized accounting functions to ensure the accurate and timely processing of the school district's financial obligations. This role is responsible for reviewing, verifying, and reconciling invoices, purchase orders, and expense reports in strict compliance with district policies, state education codes, and federal guidelines.

Reviews and processes vendor invoices, check requests, and employee travel reimbursements; matches invoices to purchase orders (POs) and receiving documents to ensure accuracy before authorizing payments.

Enters accounts payable data, organizes weekly payment runs, and processes checks, ACH, wires, or urgent manual payment requests.

Verifies that all expenditures comply with local school board policies, state procurement laws, and federal grant regulations (such as Title programs).

Reconciles vendor statements and monthly accounts payable ledgers to proactively resolve pricing, quantity, missing-payment, or duplicate-payment errors.

Maintains accurate vendor records, researches billing discrepancies, responds to vendor payment-status inquiries with professional customer service, and prepares annual 1099 forms.

Maintains organized physical and digital records to support audit, compliance, and payment review needs; prepare documentation and pull records for annual district audits.

Assists with month-end and year-end closing processes for the finance department to ensure strict timeline adherence.

Provides clear guidance to school principals, department heads, and administrative staff regarding purchase order statuses, spending guidelines, and expense procedures.

• All Fort Worth ISD employees must maintain a commitment to the District's mission, vision, and strategic goals.
• Exhibits high professionalism, standards of conduct and work ethic.
• Demonstrates high quality customer service; builds rapport/relationship with the consumer.
• Demonstrates cultural competence in interactions with others; is respectful of co-workers; communicates and acts as a team player; promotes teamwork; responds and acts appropriately in confrontational situations.

• Performs all job-related duties as assigned and in accordance with Board rules, policies and regulations. All employees are expected to comply with lawful directives in rare situations driven by need where a team effort is required.

Knowledge of District organizational units and business functions.

Knowledge of accounting practices and procedures used in the District.

Knowledge of office procedures and of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and arithmetic.

Skill at the intermediate level, working with Microsoft Office 365, especially Outlook, Excel, and Word.

Skill in data entry with minimal errors, including operating 10-key and keyboard.

Skill in using multi-function telephone, telephone techniques, and phone etiquette.

Skill in interpersonal relationships, including using tact, patience, and courtesy.

Skill in working with initiatives that require collaboration with District and outside agencies and organizations.

Skill in performing mathematical and financial calculations with accuracy.

Ability to maintain accurate records, follow procedures, and meet strict deadlines.

Ability to reconcile data entry to source documents and review work for accuracy.

Ability to accurately prepare and maintain records, files, and reports.

Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion.

Ability to use software to access databases, email, create spreadsheets, and do word processing.

Ability to organize and coordinate work, including maintaining attention to details and quality, and…