Temporary Finance Officer Reference no: Dorset BL TCL 361920 Pay Rate: £11.98 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 8.40am–5.00pm Mon - Thurs and 8.40am - 3.40pm Friday This opening assignment is for 7 months City: EXETER Office based role NPPV Level 2 NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure. A Finance Officer is required to perform central purchasing and exchequer activities for the Alliance with specific responsibility for sourcing (within contracts and non-contract provision) goods and services including ICT, travel and accommodation provision, the administration and accurate processing and recording of payments, receipts and other financial transactions. Deal with the security of seized monies and provide financial support to major operations as required. Although the post does not directly control a budget, decisions on where to spend money, expense claims to authorise and whether a purchase should be authorised in line with policy all help deliver VFM. Key responsibilities:
* Source purchasing requests within corporately set service standards including short notice urgent requests.
* Liaise with suppliers and customers in respect of stationery, printing, and other consumables, administering stocks and orders as necessary.
* Check and process all invoices received on to the financial system within specified timescales, including claims from the public (e.g. Interpreters Fees, Pedlars Certificates and Lost Property returns).
* Agree, and if necessary, challenge purchase requests with customer. Advise on use of, and use appropriate contracts and suppliers to meet the customers agreed needs in the most cost-effective manner.
* Administer receipt of goods inwards, including storage and distribution as necessary. Ensure all relevant items are added to the Force inventory in accordance with Force financial regulations.
* Add new suppliers to the procurement systems as necessary.
* Raise sales invoices. Monitor and maintain a record of all outstanding monies owed. Produce a current working debtor report and send reminders to customers with overdue balances and, where necessary follow up in accordance with policy, deal with any debtor queries and arrange for write-offs where all collection avenues have been exhausted. Complete a monthly financial health indicator report.
* Undertake cash collections from localised facilities at Force Police Stations as necessary and subsequent banking of monies thereafter. In some instances, this will liaison with external cash collection service.
* Process urgent payments, international payments, treasury management investment payments, internal account transfers, using the Force internet banking system. Provide a back-up to the treasury management team in updating the daily bank statement spreadsheet prior to investment movement.
Receipt and record all income received, including cash, cheques and electronic fund transfers. Maintain records of transactions to assist with the Force bank account reconciliation. Respond to queries regarding income and related activities. Liaising with the Force banking provider as and when necessary. 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. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. #J-18808-Ljbffr