Temporary Finance Assistant/Admin – Childrens Commissioning
Job Ref: CCC (HQ) TCL 17159
Pay Rate: £19.00 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: Huntingdon
Hybrid working
The purpose of the role is to provide effective and accurate payment of £33 million of Childrens’ Commissioning transactions (invoices) per year, ensuring that Providers are accurately paid and other Agencies invoiced.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accurate loading of all Children’s Commissioning packages onto the Commitments Record to ensure that accurate billing and payments are made.
- Ensure that other Agencies contributions are recorded correctly and invoices generated, either electronically or manually in a timely way.
- Ensure that all financial data is recorded in a consistent and accurate way across all systems.
- Provide financial statistics to relevant managers as requested in order to comply with CCC regulations.
- Ensure duties are undertaken with due regard to the Council’s financial regulations, national charging guidance, and departmental policies and procedures.
- Ensure all invoices, bills and other charging correspondence sent to other Agencies (and/or their representatives) are accurate, meet quality standards and adhere to agreed processes.
- Ensure all suppliers/creditors are set up correctly so that payments are generated correctly.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience of working with financial systems and records.
- Experience of working with finance systems and keeping accurate financial records.
- Experience of using spreadsheets, databases, word processors, and a range of computer applications.
- Ability to maintain clear and accurate financial and other relevant records (electronic and manual).
- Experience of stakeholder working.
- Experience in working across services and/or with external providers.
- Experience of monitoring, administering and regulating budgets.
- Experience of working in the local authority sector.
- Ability to act independently, but also to recognise when to escalate to managers for advice or support.
- Experience of providing services to vulnerable people.
- Good interpersonal, listening and communication skills, including negotiating, influencing and challenging.
- Good organisational and administrative skills.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please