Housing Choice Voucher Accountant

About the role

The Omaha Housing Authority (OHA) is seeking a Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) Accountant to support our mission of providing safe, affordable housing. This role plays a key part in ensuring financial accuracy and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) & Reconciliation Process, review, and reconcile monthly HAP payments to property owners.
• Submit monthly Voucher Management System (VMS) reports & ensure data reported is correct and includes Prior Month Corrections.
• Monitor Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) revenue & expenses, analyze budget variances, and forecast expenses.
• Understand & utilize HUD’s Two-Year Tool to identify trends and risk areas.
• Manage the Portability Management Process, ensuring accurate incoming/outgoing portability billing and compliance.
• Maintain records & prepare workpapers for annual and HUD-requested audits.
• Perform general ledger maintenance and reconciliation, accounts receivable/payable, month and year-end closings.
• Customer Service & Support: Become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the HCV program and work interactively with all OHA departments, landlords, tenants, HUD, and other outside agencies.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, finance, or a closely related field and/or three years professional level experience in accounting/finance.
• Relevant experience in public housing, governmental accounting, or not-for-profit financial management.
• Advanced Excel Database skills: Pivot tables, formulas, sort, filter, text to column.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, skilled at MS Word including mail merge and database functions, skilled at managing Email communication, customer service phone calls and customer contact.
• Advanced problem-solving skills, solution creation and negotiation.
• High degree of organization skills, time management and prioritization skills.
• Ability to read and interpret HUD government documents and program descriptions for Housing Choice Vouchers, Public Housing, Affordable Housing, Tax Credit Financing programs, OHA procedures and policies.
• Ability to communicate in a positive, professional and effective manner while adhering to the OHA Policies and Procedures.