Finance Officer
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Officer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £13.81/hour (PAYE). This role will be hybrid based with 2 days per week expected to be spent in office.
Responsibilities:
– Monitor Purchase Order request mailbox and process new requests within 2 working days.
– Monitor Invoice mailbox, check invoices and register valid Invoices in finance and internal systems within 2 working days.
– Process and validate approved invoices and credits, including receipt of purchase orders.
– Ensure that disputed or non-compliant invoices have the correct holds applied and when resolved ensure that those holds are lifted and the invoice status is validated.
– Process land compensation and citizen payments.
– Process and receipt purchase orders for grant payments.
– Prioritise and organise accounts payable tasks working in a fast paced environment ensuring correct authorisations and controls are in place and applied correctly.
– Work within set timeframes to meet payment performance targets.
– Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures, including audit requirements.
– Advise internal and external stakeholders on purchase order, invoice and payment processes and answer any enquiries.
– Build and maintain good customer service and working relationships across organisation to ensure that accounts payable processes are understood and followed accurately and timeously.
– Follow information management policies by ensuring all documents are correctly uploaded and stored in the correct files.
– Assist in the creation and updating of internal desk instructions and guidance materials.
– Carry out regular mandatory training, working flexibly to adapt to changing priorities and ways of working and keep up to date with system and technology updates.
– Carry out other administrative duties as required, including processing cheques, checking supplier statements and general housekeeping
Essential Skills:
– Basic Finance skills including ability to process data with good speed and accuracy
– Systems and Digital skills including Outlook, Word and Excel
– Ability to operate across multiple systems simultaneously
– Business and organisation
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Monitor Purchase Order request mailbox and process new requests within 2 working days.
– Monitor Invoice mailbox, check invoices and register valid Invoices in finance and internal systems within 2 working days.
– Process and validate approved invoices and credits, including receipt of purchase orders.
– Ensure that disputed or non-compliant invoices have the correct holds applied and when resolved ensure that those holds are lifted and the invoice status is validated.
– Process land compensation and citizen payments.
– Process and receipt purchase orders for grant payments.
– Prioritise and organise accounts payable tasks working in a fast paced environment ensuring correct authorisations and controls are in place and applied correctly.
– Work within set timeframes to meet payment performance targets.
– Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures, including audit requirements.
– Advise internal and external stakeholders on purchase order, invoice and payment processes and answer any enquiries.
– Build and maintain good customer service and working relationships across organisation to ensure that accounts payable processes are understood and followed accurately and timeously.
– Follow information management policies by ensuring all documents are correctly uploaded and stored in the correct files.
– Assist in the creation and updating of internal desk instructions and guidance materials.
– Carry out regular mandatory training, working flexibly to adapt to changing priorities and ways of working and keep up to date with system and technology updates.
– Carry out other administrative duties as required, including processing cheques, checking supplier statements and general housekeeping
Essential Skills:
– Basic Finance skills including ability to process data with good speed and accuracy
– Systems and Digital skills including Outlook, Word and Excel
– Ability to operate across multiple systems simultaneously
– Business and organisation
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
