Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector orginisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Assistant for an initial 7 month contract with potential to extend on an hourly rate of £15.53 PAYE (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office. 
 
Responsibilities: 
 
Fees and Receipts 
– Process daily direct debit and investigate exceptions 
– Issue email statements and process corresponding direct debit collection for the organisation invoices twice monthly 
– Allocate and balance BACS payments to the organisations bank account with corresponding invoices, investigating any anomalies as required 
– Any other ad hoc duties as required 
 
Enquiries 
– Monitor the section’s main telephone enquiry line 
– Investigate various Production and Financial systems to enable the completion of internal and external enquiries  
– Investigate and process Registration refunds 
– Save and manage remittance advice, ensuring good records management 
– Save cancelled invoice authorisation and process these on a weekly basis  
 
Registering and Processing of Invoices from Suppliers  
– Ensure all invoices received are entered onto the Purchase Register and sent to budget holders for authorisation  
– Check returned invoices to ensure they have been correctly authorised and coded 
– Identify any amount of pre-payment or accrual, plus capital or suspense items, which are dealt with under separate headings in the final accounts 
– Prepare invoices for payment 
– Carry out invoice policing duties, advising budget holders of potentially late invoices and monitoring disputed items 
– Deal with Supplier enquiries 
– Prepare and issue Receivable Orders and reconcile closing outstanding balance 
– Reconcile supplier statements and obtain copies of invoices which have not been received 
– Any other ad hoc duties as require 
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.