Finance Assistant/ Admin
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Temporary Finance Assistant/ Admin
Job Ref: Leicestershire BL TCL 364075Pay Rate: £12.92 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 12 months
City: LEICESTER
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As part of the EMSOU Finance Team, the post holder will provide confidential financial and administrative support to the Head of Finance & Corporate Services, Regional Financial Management Accountant and the Finance Operations Lead.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist with the day-to-day administration of devolved budgets, financial estimates and general financial matters, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded to comply with financial regulations.Prepare requested management information, monthly reports and statistics.
Research, extraction, manipulation and analysis of data to assist in the compilation of comprehensive management reports and audits.
Place orders for goods/services via the Finance System, ensuring delivery where required.
Check and scrutinise delivery notes, receipt goods, and code relevant invoices and input onto the Finance System for payment.
Raise invoices by checking and calculating payment and forwarding to appropriate forces, partners and external agencies.
Accurately maintain required on-site cash services, making cash payments, issue receipts, ensuring prompt banking and regular cash balancing, in compliance with laid down cash handling procedures
Maintain and reconcile the bank accounts, credit cards and cash accounts. This may require monitoring of bank accounts and process any urgent payments.
Qualifications:
Hold GCSE Grade C/Level 4 or equivalent in mathematics and English Language OR have relevant work experience of working to that standard.
Knowledge:
A working knowledge of managing Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and databases with the ability of presenting information in a concise, accurate manner.
Experience:
Experience of communicating and engaging with both internal and external stakeholders at a senior level.Experience of dealing with financial issues such as budgets, estimates, purchase
ordering and scrutinising invoices for payment - desirable
Skills & Abilities:
The ability to assess new information and re organise to meet changing priorities and new work streams.The ability to communicate effectively and professionally with people of all levels both verbally and in writing.
The ability to manage customer expectations.
Be able to work using own initiative and as part of a team.
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.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not 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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Leicestershire BL TCL 364075
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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