Ascend Career Services is partnering with Franklin County Housing Authority to hire a Fiscal Assistant for their Chambersburg, PA location. The Housing Authority was organized in 1951 after the Board of County Commissioners realized there was a significant need for safe and sanitary dwellings for low-income families. Today, the Franklin County Housing Authority consists of four community locations between Chambersburg and Waynesboro. The Authority offers affordable housing to accommodate senior, disabled, individual, and family households.

Benefits Included

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Dependent care allowance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan with company match
• Generous time off: annual allotment of 12 paid holidays, 10 days of PTO, and 10 paid sick days

Key Responsibilities

• Process Accounts Payable including receiving and analyzing invoices, determine program area and appropriate account number, prepare check edit report, mail checks and file invoices. Supervisor will review coding of invoices while Fiscal Technician will print checks.
• Daily reviewing of Tenants Receivable reports in all program areas. Compare deposit ticket with deposit log.
• Obtain and review employee timesheets. Resolve discrepancies with Supervisor. Total staff hours bi-weekly and produce spreadsheet for cross-reference. Monitor staff leave.
• Process Section 8 Housing Assistant Payments and mail checks.
• Receive Section 8 Tenant Fraud Recovery Payments and create journal vouchers.
• Support Occupancy Management Aide in various clerical tasks.
• Process all journal vouchers.
• Maintain capitalized equipment spreadsheets, inventory office and maintenance equipment.

Key Qualifications

• Considerable knowledge of bookkeeping principles and practices.
• Knowledge of modern office practices and equipment.
• Ability to perform detailed work with written or numerical data and to make arithmetical calculations rapidly and accurately.
• Ability to apply established methods to financial transactions.
• Two years of experience performing bookkeeping or clerical accounting work; Or
• An associate degree in accounting or business administration including or supplemented by 6 credits in accounting; Or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training.