Silvia Arias

• Responsible for ensuring compliance in Low-Income Housing HUD rules and regulations by overseeing programs, policies, and practices.
• Work closely with on-site and corporate staff to ensure regulatory compliance with housing programs are met
• Perform various audits and implement necessary solutions
• Provide administrative support, including timely data entry into compliance reporting systems, filing, and ongoing file maintenance
• Process move-ins, interims, re-certifications
• Communicate directly with Local Housing Authority and Regional Director staff concerning any matters pertaining to compliance and successful completion of annual audits
• Assist in completion of all Mass Recertification/Interims renewals
• Review and ensure all property management software data is entered correctly
• Follow up and retrieve all Utility Allowances and income/rent limits via county/city Requirements
• Proven experience with other affordable housing programs such as HUD, Section 8, 202, and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC or Section 42) certification paperwork

• Processes all accounts payable and receivables, adjustments, allowances, and credits
• Provide daily, weekly, and monthly financial overview to executive staff
• Responsible for filing all vendor, consultant, and customer invoices with supporting documentation and signatures
• Reconciles Voucher Management System for monthly HUD reporting of 350+ plus vouchers in timely manner
• Process all monthly HAP and URP check runs and check request for agency
• Assist with requisitions and purchase orders
• Communicates and works cohesively with team members to ensure all of financial data and billings have been received in order to facilitate check run in a timely manner
• Deposits all agency funds and accurately post deposits into financial system
• Processes and reconciles all invoice billing and ensures that all billings have been received
• Ensures agency obligations are paid within net term of 30 days
• Prepares variety of reports utilizing general ledger and records for outside organizations, governmental agencies and internal use which consists of compiling, posting and/or balancing financial data
• Prepares month-end closing
• Prepares journal entries
• Researches status of accounts and discrepancies
• Prepares audit of billing invoices
• Set up and maintained new contracts and ACH transmissions for all vendors and clients
• Assisted Director of Finance and Executive Director with special projects or other assigned tasks such as special audits
• Compliant to all billing regulation, policies, confidentiality, and procedures
• Managed and oversaw Tax Credit compliance
• Processed, interviewed and approved new residents
• Worked directly with HAC Frederick to ensure timely process of annual certifications, new move-ins, transfer and resident complains resolutions.
• Processed monthly HAP voucher

• Processed all billing for the agency
• Reviewed HUD form 50059, and disseminated correspondence to appropriate agencies
• Performed various analysis of tenant’s accounts for accurate balance and payments
• Performed monthly posting payments to tenant accounts
• Reconciled billings on monthly basis to ensure correct dollar amounts were received and credited to proper account
• Communicated effectively with other team members and provided excellence customer service to other housing authorities requesting outstanding documents or funds
• Performed annual re-certifications for program participant
• Negotiated and prepared Housing Assistance Payment contract, required forms and correspondence related to housing functions
• Scheduled appointments for availability to conduct recertification interviews with applicants and/or program participants, processed and obtained third party verification for family income, assets, and allowances, and calculated total rental tenant payment
• Determined Affordable Housing Section 8 program eligibility for program participants
• Maintained statistics to illustrate status of assigned program activity, filed maintenance in accordance with HUD regulations and compliant with the Housing Authority of Alexandria County administration plan to ensure accuracy of tenant files.

Occupancy Housing Specialist

• Performed annual re-certifications for program participant.
• Negotiated and prepared Housing Assistance Payment contract, prepared required forms and correspondence related to housing functions
• Scheduled appointments for availability to conduct recertification interviews with applicants and/or program participants, processed and obtained third party verification for family income, assets, and allowances, and calculated total rental tenant payment
• Determined Housing program eligibility for program participants Section 8 and Voucher Program
• Maintained daily, weekly, and monthly statistics to illustrate status of assigned program activity, completed data entry on all assigned cases, and filed maintenance in accordance with HUD regulations and compliant with Housing Authority of District of Columbia administration plan to ensure accuracy of tenant files.
• Managed 102 Cooperative units
• Communicate regularly with owners, Board of Directors, Housing agency and CA
• Managed physical and financial performance of property in accordance with stablished budget
• Analyzed and delivered accurate financial and operational performance reports. Decreased errors by 60%.