Senior Finance Assistant - Debt Recovery

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in West Sussex to assist with the appointment of a Senior Finance Assistant - Debt Recovery , on a 10-month contract , highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £13.69 - £17.72 per Hour

Summary:

This post is in respect of Debt Recovery within the Accounts Receivable team and primarily consists of following a variety of core debt recovery processes in order to provide efficient debt recovery. The post holder will provide a reliable, efficient and effective service of a high level administrative nature.

Responsibilities:

• Provides specialist financial support to the team, with a good understanding of the service specialism, objectives and requirements.
• Organises own workload, planning work over a period of months in co-ordination with others to meet service objectives and deliver a customer focused service.
• Analyses and interprets complex technical financial information relating to the team specialism and draws conclusions in order to action tasks appropriately
• Produces performance information data, financial statistics and other
  management information, manipulating and analysing manual and computerised data as necessary, both directly for clients and in support of managers to feed into reports.
  
• Updates and maintains relevant computerised and manual records relating to the service appropriately and accurately.

Qualifications:

• 4 GCSEs grades A-C, including maths and English, or equivalent qualification or experience demonstrating that level of numeracy and literacy.
• Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) part-qualified at intermediate level NVQ 3 or studying towards an equivalent qualification or demonstrable technical and theoretical knowledge related to accountancy at this level.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Experience of working in a customer orientated environment.
• A good understanding of office systems and practices related to finance, usually demonstrated by relevant experience working in a financial environment.
• Experience providing specialist advice to managers or customers. Including explaining complex financial information or other similar technical information.

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer : Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important : We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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