Finance Assistant

Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Assistant for an initial 7 month contract with potential to extend on an hourly rate of £15.53 PAYE (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

Fees and Receipts
- Process daily direct debit and investigate exceptions
- Issue email statements and process corresponding direct debit collection for the organisation invoices twice monthly
- Allocate and balance BACS payments to the organisations bank account with corresponding invoices, investigating any anomalies as required
- Any other ad hoc duties as required

Enquiries
- Monitor the section's main telephone enquiry line
- Investigate various Production and Financial systems to enable the completion of internal and external enquiries
- Investigate and process Registration refunds
- Save and manage remittance advice, ensuring good records management
- Save cancelled invoice authorisation and process these on a weekly basis

Registering and Processing of Invoices from Suppliers
- Ensure all invoices received are entered onto the Purchase Register and sent to budget holders for authorisation
- Check returned invoices to ensure they have been correctly authorised and coded
- Identify any amount of pre-payment or accrual, plus capital or suspense items, which are dealt with under separate headings in the final accounts
- Prepare invoices for payment
- Carry out invoice policing duties, advising budget holders of potentially late invoices and monitoring disputed items
- Deal with Supplier enquiries
- Prepare and issue Receivable Orders and reconcile closing outstanding balance
- Reconcile supplier statements and obtain copies of invoices which have not been received
- Any other ad hoc duties as require

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