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Administrative Associate

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

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Compensation
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Location
Austin, TX
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Job overview

The Administrative Associate supports departmental purchasing, payment processing, travel reimbursements, and accounting documentation at the University of Texas at Austin. The role serves as a resource on university purchasing policies, coordinates with internal offices and vendors, and supports funded projects, equipment inventory, deliveries, and mail. Work may involve high volumes of transactions and documents under tight deadlines.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

ProCard ProcessingPurchasingPayment ProcessingPolicy ComplianceTravel Reimbursements

Full job description

Serve as a ProCard holder and process/reconcile ProCard. Ensure payments are accurate and processed efficiently to meet University payment deadlines.Coordinate and process purchasing for EDP, including but not limited to UT Market, PointPlus, Amazon, and Procurement Card transactions. Process PIFs and GGV documents as needed.Serve as the primary point of contact and resource on University purchasing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance and advising faculty/student/staff as needed. Act as liaison with the Office of Accounting, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and external vendors. May process a high volume of transactions under tight deadlines.Responsible for processing faculty/student/staff travel authorizations, reimbursements, OOEF, entertainment expenses and payment documents. Handle departmental voucher processing (including but not limited to VP1, VP2, VPE, VP5, VP7, VC1, correction vouchers, wire transfers) and other accounting documents as needed. Work with vendors to resolve invoicing errors/issues.Ensure compliance with University policies and procedures and monitor documents through final approval. May process a high volume of documents under tight deadlines.Coordinate support for internal-funded projects to include issuing participant incentives and reconciliations. Manage cash advance requests, supporting documentation and reconciliations. Assist faculty with contract submission and track expiration timeline. Maintain departmental equipment inventory database. Conduct annual equipment inventory and prepare reports for submission. Receive deliveries and retrieve mail. Other duties as assigned.

How this job compares

Set against the 807 open Purchasing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$70–95K/yr273 salary ranges
  • US median$24–30/hr117 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 76 open Purchasing jobs in Texas and 807 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
Purchasing postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (542 postings).
Education
202 of the 807 open Purchasing jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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