Finance Assistant Taunton, England
Job description
Rate: £13.37 per hour Umbrella
Term: 3 months
Hours per week: 37
Location: Taunton
What you'll achieve
1. Maintain systems to enable practices and procedures to operate to specified standards (e.g. administer imprest and unofficial funds, verifying clients personal finance records, security of cash).
2. Prepare orders for goods/services, receive and check delivery notes, invoices and accounts. Process invoices for payment after certification by an appropriate senior member of staff.
3. Check financial information and arrange amendments as necessary (eg monthly downloads and uploading of journals). Deal with general queries from colleagues, suppliers and clients relating to the financial information systems (eg payment queries).
4. Prepare invoices for services/goods provided, receive and check payments, update financial records and investigate debt recovery.
5. Use IT systems to input and extract information and distribute information to appropriate staff (eg SAP, spreadsheets)
6. Extract statistics for the completion of statutory returns, drawing relevant issues to the attention of Senior Officers
7. Act as a point of contact for staff, clients and suppliers to give routine advice and information relating to the work of the team.
8. Prepare and process routine correspondence, reports and other documents
9. Contribute to the office management of departmental buildings in the area, to propose and implement solutions to many and varied problems (eg ICT, accommodation, health & safety).
10. 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 both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.
Requirements
Skills you'll need to bring
- Ability to collate and record data, facts and figures with care, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to form and maintain good working relationships with colleagues at all levels.
- Ability to communicate with others in an appropriate, concise and accurate manner, orally and on paper.
- Ability to meet deadlines and prioritise time.
- Ability to solve issues and/or seek advice when necessary.
- Ability to enthuse, lead and supervise.
Equal Opportunities
Business Smart Solutions are a Recruitment Agency - We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global worker base to represent the wide diversity of our clients. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you're passionate about working for a role in local government and share our company values, we encourage you to apply.
BSS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. BSS considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable UK law. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
Benefits
What we offer
We believe employee benefits should go beyond just a free drink or fruit bowl. What’s more, we believe you should get to choose perks that suit your lifestyle. That’s why we’ve partnered up with the global benefits and rewards provider Perkbox, to offer something for all of our people.
Here’s what you can look forward to:
Perks Hub
* Hundreds of global and local perks, available online 24/7
* Free monthly lifestyle perks; such as free coffees, breakfasts, cinema tickets, etc
* Shopping discounts from the biggest brands, all year round
* Save money on everything from the supermarket shop to summer holidays
Wellness Hub
* Easy to follow videos for everything from yoga exercises, to strength training and HIIT workouts
* Mindfulness, meditation and sleep resources, available on all your devices
* Guides to help with everything from anxiety to stopping smoking
* Confidential mental health helpline, 24/7 access to a qualified counsellor
Celebration hub
* Working with us means you're always part of Team BSS - celebrate and recognise fellow contractors, whether they're across the desk or across the world
* Company polls where everybody can vote for the winners
Culture Hub
* A single place to find company updates, photos, benefits information and lots more!
* Stay in the loop with what’s happening by accessing Culture hub anywhere, at any time
Job Type: Temporary contract
Contract length: 3 months
Salary: £13.37 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free fitness classes
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Taunton, TA1 4DY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- similar finance: 2 years (required)
- collating and recording data: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
