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Our Public Sector client is looking to recruit a Finance Payments and Admin Officer on a Permanent basis.

This post will be located in the Corporate Finance - Finance Business Partnering Team and will focus on activities relating to:

Schools and Education payments, queries and administration.

The role is responsible for:

* the management of the schools advances monthly process and support for other education related payments to external organisations.

* The collation of monthly schools VAT returns and submission of the information to Corporate Accountancy team for inclusion in the Council’s VAT claim within the deadlines.

* The collation of other schools related financial information for monthly, quarterly and year end returns.

* Logging and responding to queries raised in a timely manner and escalating issues where appropriate.

* Liaison with schools and other third-party organisations.

Skills and Experience Required

Job Specifics – Skills, Experience

Essential:

* Working within a finance related environment delivering high quality services

* Excellent numeracy and written communication skills

* Strong commitment to customer focused service

* Experience of dealing with customer queries and taking responsibility of resolving issues

* Strong IT/Technical skills, knowledge, specifically excel skills

* Finance payments and administration experience

* Experience of dealing with high work volumes within tight deadlines

* Development of skills and knowledge

Desirable:

* Advanced excel skills

* Accounts payable experience

Experience of finance related support or business support roles including numeracy

If this role is of interest, then please apply immediately