What's involved with this role: Interim Finance Officer - Children’s Services Job Ref: K&C 5257881 Pay Rate: £22.00 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 9 months City: Kensington, London Standard DBS disclosure required for this role The purpose of the role is to provide high quality financial support, administration and advice to all officers and partner organisations. Key Responsibilities: Offer assistance to services and budget managers for them to able to manage the efficient input of all transactions processed through the General, Purchase and Sales Ledgers and social care systems. Be fully conversant with the Corporate on-line accounting systems. Ensure that all transactions processed comply with VAT law and financial procedures. Deal efficiently with enquiries regarding payments and financial queries. Provide general financial support to the rest of the finance team as required. Use the Council’s office-based and mobile IT packages to a high standard to effectively carry out the duties of the post. Report instances of non-compliance, errors, omissions, or inadequacies in procedures to managers and suggest solutions. Support accountants in the maintenance of financial systems, procedures, and controls to ensure financial data is recorded in accordance with accounting best practice. Assist accountants in the delivery of special projects. Carry out any further finance-related duties, as directed by the line manager. Provide a high standard of customer service, to both internal and external. Qualifications: Relevant finance qualification. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Must have experience of working as part of a finance team, within a public or private sector organisation and working knowledge of core financial systems. Experience of working as part of a finance team, within a public or private sector organisation. Experience of using core financial systems and other supporting IT Experience of undertaking work on key financial processes and controls, and ability to monitor and report on these. Able to produce work to agreed deadlines and standards. Able to work as part of a team to support and improve financial processes, controls, or transactions. Able to demonstrate good inter-personal skills with colleagues and customers, and able to communicate complicated data sets effectively. 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. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. 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. 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. 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