About Us
Every day, we keep our community moving. From commuting workers to students and families, our transit system is the backbone of the City of Lubbock. We pride ourselves on reliability, sustainability, and public service. We are looking for an Accounting Clerk who wants their daily work to make a tangible impact. If you thrive in a structured, detail-oriented environment and want to serve your community, join our finance team!
Why Join Our Team?
- Stability: Enjoy the job security and predictable schedule of a vital public service agency.
- Great Benefits: Excellent health coverage, generous paid time off, and access to a 401k plan with matching.
Summary of Position:
This position under the supervision of the Accounting Manager.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
As our Accounting Clerk, you will keep our financial wheels turning. You will manage high-volume transactions ranging from daily passenger fare reconciliations to major fleet maintenance invoices.
- Reconcile Fare Revenue: Validate daily cash and mobile app revenues against system logs to ensure every cent is accounted for.
- Fuel & Fleet Accounts Payable: Process high-volume purchase orders and vendor invoices for fuel, vehicle parts, and specialized transit equipment.
- Grant & Funding Tracking: Code and track expenditures tied to federal, state, and local transit grants (such as FTA funding) with total accuracy.
- Support Federal Compliance: Maintain and organize the daily financial data required for our mandatory National Transit Database (NTD) filings.
- Audit Readiness: Keep immaculate digital and physical financial trails to ensure seamless municipal and state audits.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Qualification Requirements:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.
- Tech Savvy: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables) and the ability to adapt to specialized transit management software.
- Detail-Oriented: A strict eye for spotting numbers that do not match and a natural knack for problem-solving.
- Integrity: A strong commitment to public transparency, internal controls, and ethical financial practices.
- Professional: Be enthusiastic, self-motivated and work with public and employees in a professional manner.
Education and/or Experience Requirements:
- Experience: 2+ years of bookkeeping or accounting clerk experience (experience in public sector, municipal government, or logistics is a major plus).
- Education: High school diploma or GED required; an Associate’s degree in Accounting or Finance is preferred.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· While performing job duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and talk or hear.
· The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
· The employee must occasionally lift and/or move 75 pounds.
· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential job functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near mechanical moving parts.
· The employee is frequently exposed to assorted fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals; and exposed to vibrations, and risk of electrical shock.
· The employee occasionally works in high precarious places. They may be exposed to outside weather conditions including wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold or extreme heat.
· The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.
Pay: $19.00 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
