Supervisor, Relocation Unit

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the citys housing and diversity and strength in the citys neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

-We maintain building and resident safety and health.
-We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability.
-We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness Mayor Adams comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the citys history. This investment coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York Citys complex housing crisis by addressing homelessness and housing instability promoting economic stability and mobility increasing homeownership opportunities improving health and safety and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.


Your Team:
The Office of Finance and Administration (OFA) leads the agencys effort with the planning and management of the agencys resources and advises the Commissioner and senior team on how to improve efficiency and allocate funding to carry out HPDs mission. The financial segment of OFA is comprised of the Budget Capital Planning and Fiscal Affairs. These three divisions work in conjunction to provide centralized support consultation and oversight on a broad range of financial issues for the entire agency.

Your Impact:
The Fiscal Accounts Payable Unit is responsible for processing all payments to vendors for goods and services rendered to HPD. The unit ensures all accounting practices conform to the NYC Comptrollers Directives federal standards New York City Charter and The Procurement Policy Board Rules Prompt Payment Guidelines.

Your Role:
The selected candidate will play an integral part of supervising the Relocation Unit and ensure that all vendor payments are paid in a timely manner. The candidate will serve to help maintain a smooth workflow avoiding any backlogs.

Your Responsibilities:
Duties and responsibilities of the selected candidate will include but not limited to the following:

-Responsibly for managing a staff composed of five employees
-Monitoring the work of the staff to ensure the invoices are paid in accordance with PPB guidelines
-Perform administrative duties for the Relocation Unit
-Generate and submit relocation title report to third party title Company
-Reviews and approves relocation lien for legal Affairs
-Process American Red Cross Family Centers and Hotels payments for relocation
-Reviews and approves monthly relocation storage payments
-Reviews and process when required miscellaneous relocation stipends
-Liaise with Budget on relocation funding issues



- Liaise with Emergency Housing Services and American Red Cross on relocation data and billing issues
-Prepare monthly closing of client information to generate reports to Human Resources Agency (HRA)
-Perform data entry to enter new clients modify existing record when required
-Execute quality assurance of all relocation billings to prevent duplicate charges overlapping dates etc.
-Perform all other applicable task as assigned

Preferred skills
-Highly organized with ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver assignments on time
-Must be hands on disciplined and detail oriented with ability to work independently in a high-volume environment
-Have accounts payable experience
-Able to multitask
-Experience in use of HPDInfo (Agency Legacy System) MS Access Passport and the City s Financial Management System (FMS) are a plus

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time