Exchequer Finance Officer
| Posting date: | 16 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,163 to £31,067 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Manchester City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5678 |
Summary
Exchequer Services forms part of Financial Management within the Corporate Core directorate, and is the Council's back-office support function for transactional services.
Exchequer Services is broadly split into these main areas:
Purchase Ledger - The management of all outgoing payment processes between the Council and suppliers for goods and services. Paying invoices, resolving associated queries, working to Statutory Regulations to pay invoices within required deadlines.
Data Management & Technical – Maintaining financial records and producing reports for various users. Daily batch payment file uploads, managing bank mandates, maintaining vendors, reconciliations, administering other financial schemes such as purchase cards and travel passes.
Income and Receipting – The management of income into the City Council, ensuring that received funds are correctly allocated in a timely manner. Monitoring and clearing suspense accounts, preparing income files, receipting and banking income, account reconciliation, processing refunds.
Exchequer Finance Officers will carry out tasks including, but not limited to: maintaining vendors, producing reports and management data, investigating issues to find resolutions, administering receipts and processing income data, maintaining and interrogating suspense accounts and undertaking account reconciliations. Exchequer Finance Officers may be required to work across all areas of Exchequer Services, carrying out duties appropriate to the role.
We would love to hear from you if you have the following skills:
- Communication Skills: Demonstrates an understanding of the views of others and communicates in a realistic and practical manner using appropriate language and listens attentively to views and issues of others.
- Planning and Organising: Demonstrate the ability to organise multiple tasks in the most effective way, and allocate time according to task complexity and priority.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet targets and deadlines.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making: Ability to interpret rules and guidelines and is able to make effective decisions on a day-to-day basis, taking ownership of decisions, demonstrating sound judgement in escalating issues where necessary.
- Literacy and Numeracy: Excellent literacy and numeracy skills to undertake mathematical calculations and produce high quality written work including letters and reports.
- IT Skills: Skills to use ICT systems to obtain and analyse data and present it effectively through a variety of ICT channels. Ability to use multiple applications, systems and associated software packages especially MS Excel.
- Administrative: Ability to use and accurately maintain effective administration systems in a rapidly changing environment.
- Good literacy and excellent numeracy skills to undertake calculations.
- Teamwork: A commitment and ability to work with colleagues and managers across boundaries to deliver service excellence and improvement.
Exchequer Services is broadly split into these main areas:
Purchase Ledger - The management of all outgoing payment processes between the Council and suppliers for goods and services. Paying invoices, resolving associated queries, working to Statutory Regulations to pay invoices within required deadlines.
Data Management & Technical – Maintaining financial records and producing reports for various users. Daily batch payment file uploads, managing bank mandates, maintaining vendors, reconciliations, administering other financial schemes such as purchase cards and travel passes.
Income and Receipting – The management of income into the City Council, ensuring that received funds are correctly allocated in a timely manner. Monitoring and clearing suspense accounts, preparing income files, receipting and banking income, account reconciliation, processing refunds.
Exchequer Finance Officers will carry out tasks including, but not limited to: maintaining vendors, producing reports and management data, investigating issues to find resolutions, administering receipts and processing income data, maintaining and interrogating suspense accounts and undertaking account reconciliations. Exchequer Finance Officers may be required to work across all areas of Exchequer Services, carrying out duties appropriate to the role.
We would love to hear from you if you have the following skills:
- Communication Skills: Demonstrates an understanding of the views of others and communicates in a realistic and practical manner using appropriate language and listens attentively to views and issues of others.
- Planning and Organising: Demonstrate the ability to organise multiple tasks in the most effective way, and allocate time according to task complexity and priority.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet targets and deadlines.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making: Ability to interpret rules and guidelines and is able to make effective decisions on a day-to-day basis, taking ownership of decisions, demonstrating sound judgement in escalating issues where necessary.
- Literacy and Numeracy: Excellent literacy and numeracy skills to undertake mathematical calculations and produce high quality written work including letters and reports.
- IT Skills: Skills to use ICT systems to obtain and analyse data and present it effectively through a variety of ICT channels. Ability to use multiple applications, systems and associated software packages especially MS Excel.
- Administrative: Ability to use and accurately maintain effective administration systems in a rapidly changing environment.
- Good literacy and excellent numeracy skills to undertake calculations.
- Teamwork: A commitment and ability to work with colleagues and managers across boundaries to deliver service excellence and improvement.
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