Comptroller (Housing) Lackawanna County Housing Authority

The Position

The Comptroller position with the Lackawanna County Housing Authority offers an exciting chance to guide key financial operations, ensuring strong budgeting, accurate reporting, and reliable financial practices. You will help keep programs running smoothly through careful oversight and dependable decision-making. This is your chance to apply your financial expertise in a role that directly supports dependable housing services and meaningful community impact!

This position manages all financial and accounting operations for the Lackawanna County Housing Authority and serves as the chief financial officer. As a Comptroller, you will perform the following duties:

• Financial Oversight: Direct accounting and financial operations for the Authority
• Budget Preparation: Develop annual operating and capital budgets
• Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial statements
• Regulation Compliance: Ensure alignment with HUD, PHFA, GAAP, and all applicable regulations
• Audit Coordination: Support annual independent audits and maintain strong internal controls
• Cash Management: Oversee banking activities and guide staff in financial and accounting work

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Stable, full-time weekday employment
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 60-minute lunch.
• Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• Four years of progressively responsible professional accounting experience including one year of supervisory experience and a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by fifteen college credits in accounting; or
• Any equivalent combination of accounting experience and training.

Other Requirements:

• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Legal Requirements:

• A conditional offer of employment will require a drug screening.

How to Apply:

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
• All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant's own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.

Veterans:

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and click on Veterans.

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