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Income Assistant
| Posting date: | 18 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13,634 to £14,312 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 March 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ00964 |
Summary
We have an opportunity within our busy Finance Section to join our small Income Team.
The job involves the reconciliation and accurate processing of all income received directly into the Council’s bank account, ensuring it is correctly allocated and reconciled. If you have great attention to detail, possess excellent communication skills and strong organisational abilities we would like to hear from you.
You will be required to Investigate and allocate unidentified transactions received in the Council’s bank account via the Heycentric Income Management system, liaising with service areas, researching and contacting business customers via telephone and email.
To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate you have the skills, experience and capabilities as described in the person specification.
Hours of work are 18.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday – pattern to be discussed. This is a hybrid working role with a minimum of 1 day per week working in the office.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information about this role please contact Lindsey Saunders on 01473 433780 or via email at lindsey.saunders@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
The selection process will be via formal interview in person. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 8 April 2025 at Grafton House, Ipswich.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications
Please note CVs are not accepted.
The job involves the reconciliation and accurate processing of all income received directly into the Council’s bank account, ensuring it is correctly allocated and reconciled. If you have great attention to detail, possess excellent communication skills and strong organisational abilities we would like to hear from you.
You will be required to Investigate and allocate unidentified transactions received in the Council’s bank account via the Heycentric Income Management system, liaising with service areas, researching and contacting business customers via telephone and email.
To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate you have the skills, experience and capabilities as described in the person specification.
Hours of work are 18.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday – pattern to be discussed. This is a hybrid working role with a minimum of 1 day per week working in the office.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information about this role please contact Lindsey Saunders on 01473 433780 or via email at lindsey.saunders@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
The selection process will be via formal interview in person. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 8 April 2025 at Grafton House, Ipswich.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications
Please note CVs are not accepted.
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