Accountant [1401]

Job Description

Job Description

Position: Accountant [1401]

Program: Amarillo, Texas – Accounting & Payroll

Salary: DOE (depending on experience)

Shift available: Full-time

At Texas Panhandle Centers (TPC), you’ll be part of a caring team dedicated to making lives better for over 10,000 individuals and families each year across the Texas Panhandle. As a non-profit, TPC provides a wide range of services from mental health and substance use support to intellectual and developmental disability care, empowering clients of all ages to achieve dignity and independence. With seven service centers located throughout the region, our staff work together with our clients to achieve our mission to create an accessible system of care that supports individual choice and truly make a difference. We invite you to join us in our vision of “Making Lives Better!”

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Staff will maintain ethical and professional communications at all times using respectful Trauma-Informed Care language
• Prepares Cost Accounting Reports
• Perform month-end accounting activities
• Prepare/Oversee GL accounts & Bank reconciliations
• Ensure that necessary documents are requested, collected, and compiled to meet federal/state funding requirements
• Coordinate with accounting and other teams to complete assigned tasks within deadlines
• Other duties as assigned
• Adheres to TPC Business Code of Conduct and reports concerns if ethical and/or business standards defined in the code are compromised

Required qualifications to be successful in the job:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Accounting and four (4) years of experience in accounting, OR
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field, which include 18 credit hours in accounting, and six (6) years of experience in accounting
• Exceptional computer skills, including Microsoft office (Excel)
• Must have a valid Texas driver’s license and be insurable under agency vehicle policy
• Must be 18 years of age or older

Preferred qualifications to be successful in the job:

• Cost accounting reporting
• Knowledge of governmental financial reporting standards (GASB) which include fund accounting, trust accounting and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

At TPC, passion and meaningful work is rewarded! We offer employees:

• Click here for TPC’s FY2025 Summary of Benefits
• Robust benefit offerings – Medical, Urgent Care visits for a low $10 co-pay, Dental, and Vision
• Employer paid life insurance (1.5 times employee’s salary)
• Staff automatically enrolled into a 457 Retirement Account at 1% of their annual salary. Employer Match 1% higher than employee’s contribution up to 6% in the 403 (b) or 457 Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid time off – PTO accrual, Holidays
• One (1) annual Mental Health Floating Holiday, one (1) annual Celebrate Diversity Floating Holiday, and one (1) annual A Day to Remember Floating Holiday available to staff after 90 days of employment
• Additional Supplemental Coverage available i.e. Disability, Accidental, Cancer, Critical Care, and Section 125 Flexible Spending Account Plan
• 501(c)(3) designation – you can apply the for Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
• Teladoc – gives you or your immediate family members in the household access to a medical provider free of charge via telephone or video
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – gives you or your immediate family members in the household access to behavioral health, financial, and legal counseling in person or via telephoned