Debt Recovery Officer/Admin - Finance
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £11.44 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 2LP |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Staffordshire 5248278 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Debt Recovery Officer/Admin - Finance
Job Ref: Staffordshire 5248278
Pay Rate: £11.44 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-5 months
City: Stafford, Staffordshire
The purpose of the role is to provide a range of services to the county council with the aim of providing strategic financial advice, securing stewardship, supporting effective decision making and enabling effective financial management.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide full debt recovery service to SC business units and for schools within the guidelines set in the SCC Credit Management Strategy.
Provide specialist support and advice to schools and SCC business units.
Maintenance of customer and transactional income records within the council’s financial systems.
Responding to all correspondence and enquiries from customers.
Referral of debt when appropriate to Legal Services following the Legal Referral Protocol.
Liaison with business managers in relation to write off approval for irrecoverable debt.
To monitor and advise on the level of the bad debt provision for responsible service areas.
Investigation of credit balances and initiation of refunds where these are identified as being due.
Undertaking the cash receipting roles of the Debt Recovery Officers (Cash receipting) when required.
Undertake other duties appropriate to this role as directed.
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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.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualification:
AAT member, or appropriate Level 3 qualification (or equivalent experience), or CCAB trainee.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
At least two years of experience working in a financial function.
Thorough understanding of Local Authority services and finances.
Sound knowledge of debt recovery processes and procedures.
Experience of processing transactions in the authority’s systems.
Experience of producing accurate financial statements, reconciliations and management information, ensuring adherence to financial regulations.
Experience of dealing with varied portfolios of debt and customer types.
Able to work within clear frameworks of processes and procedures, adhering to financial regulations.
Demonstrate ability to retrieve and manipulate financial information for the production of statistics and reports.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Staffordshire 5248278
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.
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