Payments Assistant

Job Description:

Payments Assistant
Local Authority Client – Children and Families Directorate
Nottingham Based
Full time 37 Hours per week
Hybrid working – 2/3 days from home after initial training
6 Month Rolling contract
£15.80ph Umbrella
£14.32ph PAYE Inclusive or £12.78 PAYE Exclusive

We are looking for a Payments Assistant to join a Local Authority client based in Nottingham. You will be required to deliver operational activities within a payments team to facilitating payments to service users and internal and external care providers within agreed timescales.

Main responsibilities

• To work to defined business standards and processes; performing specific finance and clerical tasks with due regard to confidentiality and safeguarding.
• To create, process and examine purchase orders and invoices to ensure they comply with Financial Regulations, relevant departmental procedures and statutory guidance.
• To clarify and resolve queries from suppliers, service users, external agencies, organisations and staff within the authority in connection with this role.
• To process payments to and recover overpayments from a range of internal carers, using bespoke IT software.
• Undertake and complete financial assessments on carers who meet eligibility criteria for the payment of specific allowances.
• To ensure the effective maintenance of manual and computerised information systems and procedures, ensuring the efficient and timely processing of financial data, reports, statistics and other management information
• To undertake accountancy and reconciliation duties

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience of working in a busy setting to strict timescales
• Experience of working in a financial environment using systems such as accounts payable
• Experience of data input and data management ensuring accuracy and where appropriate confidentiality
• Significant experience and competence using IT and common business support packages including word processing and spreadsheets
• Experience of providing information to the public or customers using good communication skills

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.

If this role is of interest, please just respond to this advert with an up to date copy of your CV or call Jake on (phone number removed)