Accounts Assistant - Maternity Cover
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,064 to £30,518 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29,064 - £30,518 per annum (rising by annual increments to £30,518). |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 September 2025 |
| Location: | SP1 3NR |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
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Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to join Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, an organisation that is passionate about changing and saving lives. Our corporate staff are absolutely vital in helping to make our communities safer and healthier. Without them, we couldn’t do it.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits and strive to ensure that staff are valued and rewarded. For example, we offer a flexi time scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, a variety of family friendly schemes including 39 weeks’ full pay during maternity leave (subject to qualifying criteria) and health & well-being services.
As an Account Assistant in our Financial Services department you will:
Ensure all invoices are valid and correctly addressed, sort and match invoices to orders where appropriate. Scan all invoices into Unit4 system, which generates a unique system number for that invoice when saved to the system. Register all scanned invoices, code correctly, to be distributed to budget managers via Unit4 web.
Maintain Unit4 Accounts Payable system for any invoices that are rejected or wrongly distributed, diverting to the correct budget manager or dealing with the problem as required.
Maintain the 'Invoices Awaiting Payment' file and 'Outstanding Orders' file to avoid delays in payment. Raise debtor invoices and follow up payment.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits and strive to ensure that staff are valued and rewarded. For example, we offer a flexi time scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, a variety of family friendly schemes including 39 weeks’ full pay during maternity leave (subject to qualifying criteria) and health & well-being services.
As an Account Assistant in our Financial Services department you will:
Ensure all invoices are valid and correctly addressed, sort and match invoices to orders where appropriate. Scan all invoices into Unit4 system, which generates a unique system number for that invoice when saved to the system. Register all scanned invoices, code correctly, to be distributed to budget managers via Unit4 web.
Maintain Unit4 Accounts Payable system for any invoices that are rejected or wrongly distributed, diverting to the correct budget manager or dealing with the problem as required.
Maintain the 'Invoices Awaiting Payment' file and 'Outstanding Orders' file to avoid delays in payment. Raise debtor invoices and follow up payment.
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