Director of Accounts Payable Department

City of New York; Manhattan (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage options

Deferred compensation plans

Pension plan

Job summary

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) seeks an Administrative Accountant for its NYC operations. The role manages the Accounts Payable Unit, supervising over thirty staff to ensure timely invoice processing and accurate vendor payments across NYCHA properties and programs.

The position reports under executive direction, supporting the CFO, shaping payment policies, streamlining procurement-to-payment processes, and safeguarding controls against fraud.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree with required accounting credits and four years of accounting/auditing experience, including supervisory capacity.
• A valid New York State CPA license with 18+ months in administrative/managerial accounting or auditing supervision.

Responsibilities

• Directly support the CFO and help shape policies to pay vendors quickly while maintaining controls.
• Implement improvements to streamline procurement-to-payment processes and reduce payment fraud.
• Train staff to provide excellent customer service to NYCHA offices, properties, and external contractors.
• Prepare utility consumption data for the annual federal operating subsidy.
• Maintain and submit data, records, and reports per NYCHA retention policies.
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal reporting requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Process improvement

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree with accounting credentials

CPA license

Job description

As the nation's largest provider of affordable housing, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) owns and operates more than 173,000 apartments across the five boroughs and over 75,000 families through federal Housing Choice Voucher subsidies. As such, the Director of Accounts Payable and Utility Management is responsible for disbursing close to $300 million in monthly payments while ensuring adequate controls to protect the Authority from fraud, waste, and abuse. Under executive direction, with the wide latitude for action, decision, exercise of judgement and applications of knowledge and experience, the Director of Accounts Payable.

The Director is responsible for supervising a total of over thirty individuals to meet key payment metrics. The Accounts Payable Unit executes the routine processing steps necessary to pay an invoice or settle a payment request, while the supporting unit provides customer service to external vendors and internal program offices (e.g., vendor assistance, vendor file maintenance, timely reporting, assistance to NYCHA properties). There is also a control team within the Accounts Payable Unit that manages levies, liens/assignments, retention and escrow accounts.

Primary Responsibilities

• Directly support the Chief Finance Officer on vendor participate in the formation of new policies to pay vendors quicker while ensuring adequate financial controls.
• Implement recommendations to streamline the existing procurement-to-payment process and protect against payment fraud.
• Train staff to provide exemplary customer service to both NYCHA program offices and properties, and external contractors.
• Prepare utility consumption data for the annual federal operating subsidy.
• Maintain and submit necessary data, records and reports in accordance with NYCHA’s records retention policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements.

Additional Information

• 1. For NYCHA employees: employees applying for promotional, title or level change opportunities must have served a period of one year at current location and in current title and level (if applicable).
• 2. NYCHA residents are encouraged to apply.

NYCHA provides benefits that include a choice of medical coverage plans, deferred compensation plans and a defined pension benefit plan as a member of the New York City Employees' Retirement System.

NOTE: IF THIS APPOINTMENT IS MADE ON A TEMPORARY OR PROVISIONAL BASIS PURSUANT TO 64 OR 65 OF THE NYS CIVIL SERVICE LAW, THEN NO TENURE OR PERMANENCE ACCRUES TO AN INCUMBENT IN THIS POSITION BY VIRTUE OF SUCH APPOINTMENT.

NOTE: This position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate in your cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position under the 55-a Program. For detailed information regarding the 55-a Program, please click on the link below: https://bit.ly/55aProgram

Please read this posting carefully to make certain you meet the qualification requirements before applying to this position.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNTANT - 10001

Minimum Qualifications

• 1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in accounting, including one course each in advanced accounting and auditing, and four years of satisfactory full-time professional accounting or auditing experience, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity or supervising a staff performing accounting or auditing work; or
• 2. A valid New York State Certified Public Accountant license and at least 18 months of satisfactory full-time professional accounting or auditing experience in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or supervising a staff performing accounting or auditing work.

Preferred Skills

• Strong Leader and Capacity Builder: a proven leader with senior level experience in a broad variety of financial and management areas with the ability to lead a diverse and dynamic set of team members on an individual and corporate level. This includes the ability to cultivate entrepreneurship and ownership while enforcing accountability and maintaining high expectations of staff
• Solutions-Driven Entrepreneur: a creative thinker and self-starter, especially with experience in streamlining complex processes and implementing system changes
• Strategic Visionary: ability to project how future trends and consequences should drive present decisions
• Exemplary Communicator: ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, while maintaining an acute

55a Program

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

NYCHA has no residency requirements.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.