Interim Finance Processing Manager - Noble Recruiting : Job Details

Interim Finance Processing Manager

Location: Basildon

Salary: £35 per hour

Role: Full time,temporary - up to 1 year Maternity Cover

Noble Recruiting are partnering with a local council to recruit a Finance Processing Manager on a full time, temporary basis, up to 1 year for a maternity cover.

The Opportunity

This role is responsible for the Council’s financial processing and income control functions, providing a range of services to support the Council’s business areas in their day to day financial transactions. This includes a centralised service for the processing and payment of invoices payable by the Council, the prompt allocation of all income and ensuring the integrity of the information fed into the Council’s General Ledger.

• Prompt and accurate payment of all invoices to Council suppliers.
• Prompt and accurate allocation of all Council income including reconciliation to underlying records.
• Administration of the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).
• Reconciliation of information feeds into the General Ledger from other systems around the Council.
• Maintenance of corporate financial management systems (FMS) including general ledger, purchase ledger, purchase ordering and cash management.
• Liaison with Council suppliers and residents of the borough.
• The transmission of all the Council’s BACS files.

Duties

• Ensure the efficient running of corporate financial management systems, in particular the purchase ledger and purchase ordering systems, including regular system reconciliations
• Ensure the prompt processing and payment of all the Council’s supplier invoices and other payment requests (in excess of 30,000 per annum with a value of over £75 million).
• Prompt allocation and reconciliation of all Council income (£260 million) and housing rent income to underlying records including to interface files from other Council systems.
• Ensure proper administration of the Council’s banking functions, including successful transmission of all BACS files and the administration of corporate credit card arrangements.
• Ensure the proper administration of the statutory Construction Industry Scheme (CIS), including completing returns and investigating any anomalies to ensure that they are accurately resolved. This also includes training the organisation on the accurate identification of CIS related expenditure.
• To gather, review and submit data all matters in relation to the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) and HMRC Section 16 Notice
• Maintain accurate records of utility payments for the Council’s housing schemes including liaison with utility companies to ensure accuracy of billing and the integrity of the data used to calculate housing service charges.
• To manage human resource issues within their team including responsibility for staff recruitment, development and the identification and monitoring of performance and training needs. This includes planning, coordinating, and delivering all work assigned to the team and delivering staff training where relevant.

Your Experience

• An in-depth knowledge of local government finance and general local government procedures.
• experience and ability to analyse large volumes of financial data and to interpret such data accordingly
• Proven staff management experience including performance management
• Proven knowledge of CIS
• Relevant experience with financial management systems, particularly of the general ledger, cash management and associated feeders.
• Relevant experience in an accounts payable function, particularly in the administration of a purchase ledger and purchase ordering system
• Developed skills in prioritising work for themselves and their team

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Application Status: Due to the high volume of applications received, we regret that if you do not hear from us within 14 days, your application has not been successful on this occasion.