What's involved with this role: Temporary Accounts Payable /Accounts Receivable Finance OfficerJob Ref: Brent 5249053Pay R.....
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Accounts Payable /Accounts Receivable Finance Officer
Job Ref: Brent 5249053
Pay Rate: £18.66 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: Wembley, London
Basic DBS disclosure required for this role
The purpose of the role is to provide a professional and customer focused service, ensuring performance and quality targets are achieved whilst maintaining financial controls at all times. Administer accounts payable and/or accounts receivable processes.
Key Responsibilities:
Be responsible for administering accounts payable or accounts receivable processes.
Responsible for the processing of all payment/income transactions in Oracle Cloud and third party systems - not limited to but including invoice scanning/income allocation systems.
Proactively advise management of any significant discrepancies or failures in financial or control procedures.
Responsible for liaising and actioning all payment / income enquiries across various channels.
Supporting a range of stakeholders within the business which includes officers involved in the transactional process across the Council, budget approvers, finance representatives and external parties with the aim to prevent delays in processing of income/payment transactions.
Identify key supplier/customer accounts and perform priority reconciliation back to the Oracle Cloud ledger or third party system.
Allocations of manual payments/income to the sub ledgers
Provide a high level standard of customer service to suppliers/customers and internal stakeholders at all times, taking action to meet specified target times, and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction.
Carry out training on accounts payable/accounts receivable processes and undertake coaching and quality checking of work carried out by team members and officers involved from service areas.
Provide support and guidance in relations to the correct process and procedures in relations to accounts payable/receivable matters.
Ensure that expenditure/income transactions are accurate and comply with all financial controls to achieve compliance and efficiency.
Identify areas of risk which the council should consider to aid prevention of fraud with any transactions.
Provide information for financial and other management reports, as and when required and to ensure the working paper file complies with audit standards.
Contribute to the overall success of the team, supporting team members and taking personal responsibility for ensuring they achieve excellent performance. This includes identification of areas of backlogs and causes, providing suggestions on resolving issues.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Evidence of Continuous professional development in either Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable functions.
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of working within a large and complex finance function.
Experience of working collaboratively with departments and other customers to deliver a responsive and co-ordinated service
Experience of mentoring and coaching staff.
Experience of maintaining financial controls.
Substantial experience of both the accounts payable and accounts receivable function, including procure to pay processes in Local Government.
Knowledge of accounts payable/receivables processes and the administration of these functions, and how these impacts on other Finance teams and the Council.
Understanding of the control frameworks to be operated in – managing complex, high value and high-volume financial transactions.
Detailed knowledge of both the accounts payable and accounts receivable function, including procure to pay processes in Local Government.
Skills & Experience:
Excellent analytical and numeracy skills.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to carry out effective training and quality checks.
Well organised, systematic and calm in approach, and able to work flexibly and effectively as part of a team.
Ability to understand the needs of customers and a commitment to securing the best possible outcomes for them.
Ability to handle complex queries to completion.
Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
Work effectively as an individual and a member of a team by co-operating and supporting colleagues in the workplace.
Ability to effectively use a large range of IT systems and applications.
Ability to manage own workload and maintain performance to the highest standards.
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Job Ref: Brent 5249053
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.
