Finance Technician (G5)

Lincolnshire County Council; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire County Council is seeking to fill a financial support position within the Financial Services team. This role involves managing bank reconciliation and VAT tasks, contributing to financial reporting, and ensuring statutory compliance. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in financial management and accounting principles, along with strong communication skills. An immediate start is available.

Qualifications

• Preferably working towards AAT membership.
• Understanding of financial management and accounting principles.
• Good communication and ICT skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support for Bank Reconciliation and VAT functions.
• Assist with FOI requests.
• Contribute to team meetings and training programs.

Skills

Financial management

Accounting principles

Communication

ICT skills

Knowledge of Financial Strategy

Education

AAT membership (preferably)

Tools

Agresso

Excel

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Job Category : Financial
Location : Lincoln County Offices (Newland), Lincolnshire County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date :Immediate start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 16:30
Salary: £13.02

Financial Services provides a comprehensive range of financial accounting, business partnering, working capital and client financial management services.
• Work as part of a team of people at the front door of Financial Services receiving communications from both internal and external customers.
• Attend the team meeting every month. Contribute to the agenda providing updates and/or changes in areas of responsibility.
• Contribute ideas to the development of the training programme to ensure training needs and/or knowledge gaps are filled.
• Provide professional, high-quality financial support and advice for the specific areas of Bank Reconciliation and VAT functions. For Bank Reconciliation this could include day to day identification and posting of cashbook items by journal for reconciliation, daily submission of Bank Statements into the General Ledger and Monthly reporting of Bank Reconciliation positions and updating of records and procedure notes as and when necessary. For VAT this could include, pre-submission VAT compliance checks to ensure that VAT has been accounted for correctly, VAT only invoice validation tasks, processing journals for VAT adjustments and updating procedure notes as and when necessary.
• To provide financial information to team members to support delivery of the statutory requirement regarding the annual closure of accounts the provision of financial information required to complete the working papers supporting notes to the statement of accounts.
• To assist with obtaining information to enable FOI requests to be answered in an accurate & timely manner.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
• Preferably AAT membership, or working towards it.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of principles of financial
management, accounting principles and practice.
• Detailed knowledge of Financial Strategy, financial regulations, financial
procedures, schemes of authorisation and their rationale within the
control framework
• Good communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with
officers, external auditors and partners, including funding bodies and
government departments and agencies, so as to secure their confidence
and respect.
• Good ICT skills, including corporate finance systems (e.g. Agresso) and
Excel.