One of my local government clients are currently recruiting an experienced Finance Assistant on a temporary basis. This is a 3-month minimum contract with the possibility of the role being extended further to work Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm. Hybrid working role were, however, you will be required to attend the office 2/3 times a week. Overview: To provide a quality service to both internal and external customers by assisting with duties relating to the timely payment of creditors, recovery of sundry debt, receipting of council income, balancing, agreeing daily income postings, and bank reconciliation. Responsibilties: To prepare, check, scan and register all invoices on the Council’s financial system Agresso, ensuring all invoices comply with HMRC regulations for VAT and CIS (Construction Industry Scheme). To prepare, set up and update all supplier records on Agresso supplier database, including the correct set up of CIS suppliers as per HMRC guidelines, to ensure accurate data is held including bank account details to enable payments to be made to agreed payment terms. To receipt income daily which is paid to the Council, run and reconcile income posting at the end of the day and deal with queries from the bank if the totals do not reconcile. To produce the monthly report for the BVPI8 (performance indicator) figure and load onto the Council’s Performance Monitoring System Covalent/Pentana. To check, balance and prepare the purchase card statement for payment, ensuring the correct VAT Codes and budget codes are used and a valid VAT receipt or invoice is provided, and monitor against misuse. To support the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable officers to effectively and efficiently provide the Council's Accounts Payable and Sundry Debtor services, and to deal with invoice and payment queries on a daily basis. To assist with the weekly creditor payment runs when required. To provide cover for sending AUDDIS and creditor BACS files when required. To prepare and manage an up to date authorised signatory file for audit purposes. To assist the completion of bank reconciliation by preparing journals, matching entries and maintaining the background analyses. If you are interested in this vacancy, please send your CV to Jahker Miah from Coyle Personnel Ltd