Accounting Clerk 3123R

Accounting Clerk – Affordable Housing

Job Title: Accounting Clerk – Affordable Housing

Program/Services: Business Office

Location: New Lenox, IL

Job Type: Full-time; 40 hours per week

Job Description:

Position Overview - Reporting to the Controller, this position will be responsible for managing and reconciling tenant rents and deposits for 108 low-income permanent supportive housing units, processing and reconciling social security payments for 400+ CILA residents, and completing all compliance reporting for six PSH locations.

Essential Duties:

• Social Security Benefits
  • Remotely scan and deposit benefit checks into appropriate client accounts
  • Prepare deposit journals and enter information into ERP system
  • Manage and reconcile resident room and board cost deductions and apply to appropriate accounts, client ledgers and property ledgers

• HUD/Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA)
  • Monitor, initiate and manage tenant certifications when they come due (annually)
    • Prepare all documentation required by certification agency (HUD or IHDA)
    • Access appropriate HUD systems and gather required information for certification
    • Monitor and manage the certification process unless successfully completed.
  • Process monthly HUD and IHDA tenant subsidies
    • Log subsidy transactions, prepare ERP entries and update rent/subsidy schedules
  • HUD/IHDA annual audits, reviews or inspections
    • Coordinate all required tenant income verification, rent and subsidy receipts, in support of an inspection, audit or review
    • Work with property managers, business office and departments to assure that all records and documentation for the review are in place, accurate and prepared for review
• Perform other duties as required or assigned.

Skills and Abilities:

• Able to make independent decisions and problem solve
• Excellent attention to detail
• Familiarity and experience with spreadsheets’
• Experience with HUD systems preferred

Minimum Qualifications:

• 1 -3 years in a bookkeeping or accounting office
• Experience with tenant/rent bookkeeping and/or HUD property record-keeping preferred

We offer full benefits including medical/dental insurance, paid holidays and paid vacation.

Contact information: Qualified candidates may email their resumes to Justina Nava at jobs@trinityservices.org