Finance Officer

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Finance Officer on a 3 months contract initially with a possibility of further extension.

Role:

• To deliver the purchase to pay process across the Council.
• To support managers across the Council in the creation and management of purchase
• orders. Process invoices for payment, in line with agreed targets, using the Council’s finance
• system.
• To ensure the accuracy of vendor master data in order to make accurate payments
• Attention to detail, a good team player, used SAP recently
• Two in-office day after training is completed
• The candidate must be competent in Accounts payables, know the process and have current relevant SAP experience

Responsibilities:

1. Operate the automated payment processes across the accounts payable function.
2. Process invoice payment requests and GRNs for all invoices which require manual payment to agreed timescales.
3. Ensure that all invoices are paid against correct purchase orders, which have been created and approved.
4. Process bulk uploads of invoice payments as required using appropriate software.
5. Identify and prevent duplicate payments and undertake due diligence of payments made, ensuring that the purchase to pay process is enforced.
6. Work with Council departments to communicate the correct accounts payable processes and procedures.
7. Process direct bank payments, cheque receipting and VAT categorisation.
8. Raising and reissue of manual cheques and the processing of foreign currency payments.
9. Delivery of the Construction Industry Scheme payments, including the CIS return to HMRC, creation, verification and amendment of CIS vendors.
10. Reporting of daily BACS totals, including the cancellation and re-issue of BACS files, working in conjunction with the financial management systems team.

If this sounds good to you, please apply for immediate contact or call us directly.