Accounts Payable And Receivable Assistant, Jrn 20315

Role:

Salary: Band 4, £24,921 – £25,203

Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station, Newcastle and homeworking

Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, fixed term / secondment for 12 months

Working for #TeamNP

Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in. As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted.

As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard and valued.

Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best.

Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.

Learn about our full benefits package

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Finance Department as an Accounts Payable and Receivable Assistant.

As an Accounts Payable & Receivable Assistant you will be part of the team that manages the purchase and sales ledgers, as well as processing payment files both creditors and payroll in line with agreed deadlines.

You will be responsible for ensuring invoices are coded correctly including ensuring correct VAT codes are used while processing high volumes accurately and at speed on a daily basis.

The majority of the team are working mainly from home with occasional days in the office, so we are happy to offer flexibility with this role.

What you’ll do

• Ensuring all supplier invoices and other payment requests are checked and prepared for input (ensuring accuracy with VAT and costing codes) onto the force finance system promptly and accurately.
• Ensuring that invoices have the correct authorisation and approval lines are within the laid down limits of the budget holders as well as being processed within agreed timescales.
• Responsibility for ensuring CIS invoices are processed and deductions reported in line with guidance.
Issuing sales invoices to customers and chasing late payments, following procedures for management of debt as well as any escalation of issues required.
• Ensuring all payment file and faster payments are actioned in line with guidance and agreed deadlines.
• Processing all internal expenses claims in line with force procedures and challenging any discrepancies.

There will be opportunities for you to put forward any suggestions or ideas in relation to the role – we are an evolving team and we fully welcome this.

Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description

What you’ll bring

Some experience of working in and Accounts Payable / Receivable environment.

• Good PC skills, competent in the use of Microsoft Office (word, excel).

We are looking for an organised individual with great attention to detail, who is comfortable communicating face to face, via phone or email as the role is varied which means no two days are the same.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Mahima Kharabanda, Senior Accountant by email at Mahima.Kharabanda@northumbria.police.uk

What we offer

• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
• NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme
• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
• Flexi time – allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force
• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
• Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support
Access to gyms in some stations
• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
• Cycle to work scheme

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of an Accounts Payable and Receivable Assistant with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re ing for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by an interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert. We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly. If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.