ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT

Deekay Technical Recruitment; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for a finance professional for a 6-month role in Stoke-on-Trent. The candidate will assist with reconciling Purchase Orders in financial systems and analyzing financial commitments during the transition of services between systems. This position requires strong analytical skills and the ability to manage increased workloads due to transitional challenges. Interested applicants can request the full job specification.

Qualifications

• Experience in finance and reconciliations.
• Ability to manage workload effectively during transitional phases.
• Knowledge of financial systems such as Civica and Buy-it.

Responsibilities

• Assist with additional finance tasks due to increased workload.
• Reconcile Purchase Orders in financial systems.
• Analyze financial gaps between systems for compliance and payments.

Job description

This post is required for a period of 6 months, to assist with additional finance tasks, which have resulted from the transfer of Unitas to the Council, the adoption of new processes and procedures has significantly increased workload and created a backlog, primarily due to initial teething problems and further reconciliations required between the services job costing systems, buy-it and civica financials. For example

Reconciling PO’s in Buy-it to Civica

Removing / reducing PO’s which are not required

Analysis of GRNI’s to understand the gap between, actual commitment and civica, also to ensure we have sufficient PO, so no hold up on payment

Checking for Unitas invoices paid out of Stoke ledger and vice versa

Furthermore, RMS have recently transferred their Responsive and Planned services from Servitor to NEC. This is the first phase of the transfer with phase 2 due to be completed over the next few months with the remaining services transferring over to NEC. This role will assist with some of the tasks required as part of the transition process, for eg

Closing jobs down (ie those relating to current year, RMS specific) that have not been transferred to NEC, which need to be completed in Servitor (Old and New).

Jobs that have been transferred to NEC, have not been transferred with historic costs, these will have costs in both systems, when activity is complete they need to be completed in both systems. FULL JOB SPEC ON REQUEST