Finance Assistant - Temporary until 09/2027

St Helens Council; St Helens; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merseyside Pension Fund

Hybrid/remote working (minimum 2 days/

Job summary

St Helens Council in the Northwest is seeking a Finance Assistant to join the Payments & Charges Team within Integrated Health & Social Care. You will help ensure accurate payments, maintain financial records and support service users and care providers.

Your duties include processing provider invoices and payments, producing payment schedules for residential, nursing and domiciliary care, and resolving payment discrepancies to support timely financial assessments.

Qualifications

• Experience in processing provider invoices and payments.
• Ability to produce payment schedules for care providers.
• Experience maintaining financial records and reconciliations.
• Able to support service users and providers with financial matters.

Responsibilities

• Processing provider invoices and payments.
• Producing payment schedules for residential, nursing and domiciliary care providers.
• Investigating and resolving payment and charging discrepancies.
• Maintaining accurate financial records and reconciliations.
• Responding to enquiries from service users, providers and colleagues.
• Managing appointeeship and client monies accounts.
• Supporting annual financial assessments and reviews.

Skills

Invoice processing

Accounts payable

Financial record keeping

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Job description

We Are St Helens Borough Council

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and organised individual to join the Payments & Charges Team as a Finance Assistant within Integrated Health & Social Care.

This is a varied and rewarding role supporting services for vulnerable adults and care providers. You will play a key role in ensuring accurate payments, maintaining financial records, supporting service users, and helping the team meet important deadlines.

Making a Difference

Whatever stage of your career, working in the public sector puts you at the heart of communities. Our workforce provides services to our resident's day in and day out, making a positive impact on people’s lives. We could not do this without the dedication, professionalism and strength of our workforce. There are so many reasons to choose to work at St Helens Council including the fantastic range of employee benefits and rewards on offer.

As a St Helens Council employee, you'll be enrolled in the Merseyside Pension Fund Pension Scheme. Use the calculator to see what your annual pension could be worth based on your salary and length of service. Try the calculator.

Roles That Matter

• Processing provider invoices and payments.
• Producing payment schedules for residential, nursing and domiciliary care providers.
• Investigating and resolving payment and charging discrepancies.
• Supporting annual financial assessments and reviews.
• Managing appointeeship and client monies accounts.
• Maintaining accurate financial records and reconciliations.
• Responding to enquiries from service users, providers and colleagues.

Supporting vulnerable service users by ensuring their financial affairs are managed accurately and appropriately.

Full Job Description & Person Specification Documents are included with this advert.

Employees can regularly work away from Council workspaces (including home or other locations), alongside required office-based working. The balance between remote and office-based working is determined at service level based on operational need, however, there has been a minimum specification that staff will work at least 2 days from an office-based location.

St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.

Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation.

The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within selection.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles.

Be scam aware: St Helens Council will never ask applicants to share payment information or charge recruitment fees when applying for vacancies. If in doubt, contact [e-mail]