What's involved with this role: Temporary Admin Support Officer – Financial Services Job Ref: Durham 1001576315218779 Pay Rate: Up to £12.18 per hour PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Durham The purpose of the role is to provide a responsive, efficient and effective administrative and business support to Assessment & Awards and Payments Income & Support Teams and Finance & HR Services. The successful candidate will have experience working in an administrative/financial support environment. Key Responsibilities: Contribute to the delivery of service standards, quality and performance targets for the Finance & HR Services in accordance with the Council’s Aims and Objectives. To provide an efficient and effective support service to the Assessment & Awards and Payments Income & Support Teams and Finance & HR Services. Responsible for opening all post in accordance with legislative and procedural requirements. Check the validity and accuracy of all documentation received and act upon this accordingly in a timely manner. Responsible for the receipt of payments received via post in accordance with the Council’s financial systems and processes. Scan & reference all documentation as directed by procedural guidance. Understand the principals of DIP & workflow systems. Despatch all post and bulk print output as directed to by procedural guidance minimising the risk of data breach situations. Provision of effective business support services processing orders, requisitions and invoices meeting Council standards. Processing and monitoring staff allowances including car mileage and mobiles phones on behalf of specified services. Qualifications: NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Experience dealing with members of the public Experience liaising with both internal and external customers Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Previous experience of working within Revenues and Benefits desirable. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). 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. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. 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. 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