What are the responsibilities and job description for the Gift Administrator Accountant position at Texas A&M Foundation?
Brief Description
What you’ll do…
As the Gift Administrator Accountant, you will play a vital role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency of gift administration processes. You will oversee the full lifecycle of charitable gifts, including receiving, recording, depositing, reconciling, and reporting on donations while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders. Leveraging your expertise in charitable gift regulations, university policies, and financial procedures, you will analyze complex transactions, maintain accurate donor records, and process various forms of commitments. Your strong database navigation skills, proficiency in financial systems, and commitment to exceptional customer service will help uphold donor intent and support the institution’s philanthropic mission.
What We Have To Offer…
This will have direct supervision and management responsibilities. May provide guidance and assignment of tasks to student workers and other team members. Provides indirect leadership through collaborative efforts. Occasional travel may be required.
Check out our website for more information!
To apply for this position, please apply here.
If you need assistance or have any questions, please contact careers@txamfoundation.com.
What you’ll do…
As the Gift Administrator Accountant, you will play a vital role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency of gift administration processes. You will oversee the full lifecycle of charitable gifts, including receiving, recording, depositing, reconciling, and reporting on donations while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders. Leveraging your expertise in charitable gift regulations, university policies, and financial procedures, you will analyze complex transactions, maintain accurate donor records, and process various forms of commitments. Your strong database navigation skills, proficiency in financial systems, and commitment to exceptional customer service will help uphold donor intent and support the institution’s philanthropic mission.
What We Have To Offer…
- Purpose. Our work creates more opportunity every day. Opportunity for thousands of students to gain access a college education. Opportunity for Texas A&M’s groundbreaking research to solve the complex challenges of today and tomorrow.
- Competitive total compensation package with incentive rewards for top performance and high achievement.
- Comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, life insurance, identity protection, and more) available at no cost to you.
- Retirement planning options and tools including a 17% contribution toward your retirement.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, finance or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in accounting, finance or related field.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Access, Excel, Word, Outlook).
- Strong attention to detail, confidentiality, and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Commitment to the mission and vision of Texas A&M Foundation.
- Familiarity with financial, business, and accounting principles, concepts, and terminology.
- Experience in non-profit organization or higher education sectors.
- Knowledge of donor database management systems, preferably Salesforce.
- Manage donor information across multiple systems and reconcile transactions, including monthly gift reconciliations and discrepancy resolution.
- Prepare quarterly board reports and year-end gift reports for audits and tax filings (990).
- Act as the primary contact for wire, ACH, and stock transactions, including vendor profile setup.
- Review donor gift agreements to ensure compliance with gifting guidelines.
- Generate, analyze, and distribute ad hoc and recurring specialized reports.
- Address complex donor and stakeholder inquiries.
- Produce gift-related communications and correspondence using email, microsoft word, mail merge functions and editing tools.
- Demonstrate the attributes and behaviors of a Passionate Professional Dedicated to Purposeful Philanthropy.
- Embody the Aggie Core Values and the Foundation Beliefs.
- Contribute to team effectiveness through knowledge-sharing and proactively identifying process improvements.
- Participate in the establishment and attainment of personal, departmental, divisional, and organizational goals and objectives in support of the mission, vision, and goals of the Foundation.
This will have direct supervision and management responsibilities. May provide guidance and assignment of tasks to student workers and other team members. Provides indirect leadership through collaborative efforts. Occasional travel may be required.
Check out our website for more information!
To apply for this position, please apply here.
If you need assistance or have any questions, please contact careers@txamfoundation.com.
