Finance Assistant - Payments
| Posting date: | 28 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £23,344 per year |
| Additional salary information: | + 26 Days Holiday & Local Gov Pension |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 February 2025 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1QH |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Essex County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | req18873_1738073864 |
Summary
Finance Assistant - Payments
Fixed Term, Full Time
£23,344 Per Annum
Location: Chelmsford
Closing Date: Monday 3rd February 2025 at 11.59pm
Please note that this is a Fixed Term Contract / Secondment opportunity for a period of 12 months.
This position has been classed as an anywhere worker role but has an expectation that the successful candidate will attend the office, in Chelmsford, 2-3 day per month, with the remaining time allowing for remote working if desired.
The Opportunity
Purchase to Pay (P2P) and Income aims to provide a comprehensive financial transactional and support service, maximising new and innovative technology to provide excellent customer service using a multi skilled workforce.
The Finance Assistant supports the Purchase to Pay (P2P) and Income teams to deliver the business plan for financial transactions. With a working knowledge of Financial processes and systems across P2P and Income, ensuring data or income is input accurately, timely and within policy and legislation standards.
Experienced in working as a team member across a flexible and multi skilled workforce, delivering excellent customer service to a variety of Functions by maintaining financial transactions and data within local systems. Recognising and supporting changes in technology to streamline the customer experience.
Accountabilities
- Contributes to the delivery of the business plan for financial transactions, in support of the wider organisational vision. Ensuring Adult Social Care Data
- Responsible for processing and managing financial transactions related to Adult Social Care, following defined business processes, inputting and interpreting data to ensure quality, consistency, accuracy, timeliness and high performance.
- Responsible for delivering all activities to meet defined deadlines, proactively reporting any risks or issues for early resolution.
- Provides support and guidance to internal and external customers in a professional manner, in line with Financial processes, ensuring that policy and legislation are met.
- Carries out basic reporting for P2P and Income and external customers, which contributes to the management of organisational performance, maximises income and ensures compliance with Financial Regulations and ECC Policies.
- Work flexibly and collaboratively across P2P and Income to deliver finance support.
- Recommend process improvements and redesign to achieve best practice and organisational efficiency.
- Contributes to maintaining currency on legislation changes and translating these into local policy and procedure, to identify and review potential changes in technology.
The Experience You Will Bring
Essential:
- Educated to RQF Level 2 (GCSE) must include English and Mathematics, or equivalent by experience.
- Some knowledge of P2P/Income systems and demonstrable accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchase to pay and e-invoicing experience would be desirable.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Level of good competency using Microsoft office packages including, Outlook, Word and Excel.
Desirable:
- Aptitude and willingness to work flexibly in multi skilled Operational Teams.
- Good attention to detail.
- Ability to interpret varied information for supporting continuous improvements in service delivery.
- Ability to work effectively within a team whilst remaining focussed and disciplined when working from home.
- Ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers and partners.