Finance Professional

Colbern Limited; Taunton; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services provider seeks two full-time Finance Support Assistants to work remotely within the Adult Social Care Finance Team. The ideal candidates will enjoy a fast-paced environment and will receive full training. Responsibilities include maintaining financial systems, processing invoices, and handling general queries. Strong IT skills, especially in SAP, are essential. Competitive hourly pay offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance support role is essential.
• Proficient in using IT systems, especially SAP and spreadsheets.
• Strong communication skills for interacting with colleagues and clients.

Responsibilities

• Maintain systems for financial practices and procedures.
• Prepare orders and process invoices for payment.
• Handle financial information and general queries.
• Prepare invoices and update financial records.
• Extract statistics for statutory returns.
• Contribute to office management and solve departmental problems.

Skills

Experience in finance support

IT skills (SAP, spreadsheets)

Communication skills

Tools

SAP

Job description

Finance Support Assistant

Taunton

Contract

£12.85 per hour

Our client is looking for an experienced Finance Support Assistant.

We are currently seeking x2 full‑time Finance Support Assistants to work remotely within the Adult Social Care Finance Team. This role suits an individual who enjoys a fast‑paced, busy and varied work environment. Full training and support will be given.

Main Responsibilities & Duties

• Maintain systems to enable practices and procedures to operate to specified standards (e.g. administer imprest and unofficial funds, verify clients’ personal finance records, ensure security of cash).
• Prepare orders for goods/services, receive and check delivery notes, invoices, and accounts. Process invoices for payment after certification by an appropriate senior staff member.
• Check financial information and arrange amendments as necessary (e.g. monthly downloads and uploads of journals). Deal with general queries from colleagues, suppliers and clients relating to the financial information systems (e.g. payment queries).
• Prepare invoices for services/goods provided, receive and check payments, update financial records and investigate debt recovery.
• Use IT systems to input and extract information and distribute information to appropriate staff (e.g. SAP, spreadsheets).
• Extract statistics for the completion of statutory returns, drawing relevant issues to the attention of Senior Officers.
• Act as a point of contact for staff, clients and suppliers to give routine advice and information relating to the work of the team.
• Prepare and process routine correspondence, reports and other documents.
• Contribute to the office management of departmental buildings in the area; propose and implement solutions to many varied problems (e.g. ICT, accommodation, health & safety).
• Understand, uphold and promote the aims of the council’s equality, diversity and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and organisational values in everything you do. Equality and diversity practice covers interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. If you are shortlisted, Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days, or we may contact you about other job opportunities.

Colbern Limited along with our clients is an equal opportunities employer.