Finance Officer

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My Client is looking for 2 x Finance Officer to work in a local autority in North West London.

The post holder may undertake work in the following areas:

Purchase Order & Invoice Management
Payments
Income Control
Invoices and Cash
Debt Recovery
Accounting to Reporting 

To contribute to the delivery of an excellent service by regularly meeting performance standards as outlined in the service level agreement

To advise the team leader or team manager of any significant discrepancies or failures in financial or control procedures

To provide information for financial and other management reports, as and when required and to ensure the working paper file complies with audit standards

To ensure finance procedures are kept up to date and any changes approved by Corporate Financial Control

To contribute to the FSC continuous improvement plan and assist in the design of new processes and procedures

To promote the FSC internally and externally

To undertake such other duties as may be required to meet the demands of the service, including reasonable management requests

To work as part of a team to achieve customer service excellence

To provide management information as directed by the line manager

To provide advice to other members of the team

Responsibilities

To identify the causes of exception and take appropriate action to resolve

To understand the finance processes, imaging technology, financial systems and underlying technology and through this to help the team set standards of performance across the authority

To work with departments and other teams in identifying issues e.g. supplier overpayments, cash allocations

To identify issues and risk with finance processes and recommend solutions

To provide advice to departments on the FSC processes to achieve increased efficiency and compliance throughout the organisation

To process and monitor, when necessary, interface files in relation to the relevant finance process

To make recommendations and take action as appropriate to resolve the causes of identified issues e.g. overpayments

To reconcile relevant control accounts to the Oracle general ledger in accordance with agreed targets, generating journals as required

Knowledge of risk management/financial control techniques
Understanding of how an Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable or Accounting to Reporting process works

Ability to use specialist information systems at an advanced level, e.g. Oracle Financials by producing reports using multiple criteria and extract and re-use data in Microsoft Office products, data maintenance and manipulation.

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