Financial Services Assistant

My Public Sector client is looking for a Financial Services Assistant to join them on a Temporary Basis, initially until March.

Job Purpose: To support all aspects of the Exchequer Section’s duties including Income Collection, Payment of Suppliers, Salaries and all Reconciliation Services.

Location: Coalville

Pay: £13.29ph to £13.74ph

Responsibilities:

• To sort, analyse and categorise all incoming invoices in the inbox. 


• Handling all post/emails related to invoices and any other associated duties including scanning.


• To register all invoices in the accounts payable system. 


• Accurate processing, coding, and matching of invoices in accordance with group policies.


• Liaising with suppliers to resolve invoicing queries in a professional manner, on a timely basis and to comply with statutory requirements.


• To liaise with other departments to resolve invoice / order queries or anomalies.


• Review of invoices on hold in Workflow and clear in a timely manner.


• Processing of manual payments and journalled with correct supporting documents accurately.


• Supplier reconciliations.


• Direct debit invoices processing


• Handling of credit card reconciliations and posting of journals monthly.


• To run the weekly creditor/CIS payments on the accounts payable system 


• Support where necessary other transactional finance functions e.g. Bank recs


• To follow policies and codes of practice. 

Essential Criteria

• Behave in line with our values 


• IT literate including MS Excel/Outlook


• High volume processing environment with good knowledge of end-to-end accounts payable function


• Ability to resolve and reconcile issues with limited supervision


• Self-motivated and ability to work on own initiative


• Time management and organisational skills to manage workload


• Ability to communicate to all stakeholders, both internally and externally


• Ability to work as part of a wider team