Location - Scotland Hub Office, G3 7PR
Contract-Permanent, Full-Time, 35 hours
Salary - c £25,300 per annum
Action for Children
Every year, Action for Children impacts on the lives of 310,000 children, young people and their families across the UK, through our professional and committed workforce of c.4300.
We currently have an opportunity for a Divisional Finance officer to work as part of the Finance Business team to co-ordinate the divisional credit control function and also to ensure that all transaction processing activities are completed in an efficient and effective way, in order to support operational colleagues and Co-ordinate the divisional credit control function. This role is Mon - Fri 9-5pm.
The role?
- Provision of an effective divisional credit control function and the maintenance of a low level of aged debt
- Liaison with commissioners, finance colleagues, local CSM's and BSO3's in order to utilise local knowledge to deal with debtor queries & process billing
- Support the local Finance Business Team in ensuring as many invoices as possible are transferred onto the automatic invoicing system
- Support service business support staff with local billing process queries
- Provision of additional support, as needed, to fee-based services/divisional hub in respect of invoicing, monitoring of income and reporting of financial performance & contract sign-off procedure
- Provision of relevant information on aged debts for monthly finance meetings
- Lead on the decentralisation of the accounts payable and any other identified decentralised processes in conjunction with the central finance team
- Collation and checking of quarterly funder returns from local services to commissioners, in conjunction with the Finance Business Partner
- Process all Scotland journals within monthly deadline.
- Provision of support to the local Finance Business Team in the fulfilment of transactional processes and recording, including the maintenance of supporting databases, eg TM1, Salesforce etc.
- Ensure cost centre maintenance is up to date across all patches and clusters
- Co-ordination of any cash handling risk assessment processes
The person?
- Relevant financial experience
- A tenacious worker with excellent written and verbal communication skills and excellent attention to detail
- A good working knowledge of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, cash allocation processes and procedures
- Continuous improvement experience including process improvement, re‐engineering and team‐based problem solving
- Numerate with strong analytical and problem‐solving skills
- Strong excel skills
- Willing to cross skill and flex as required between the different tasks within the team
Please refer to the full job description and person specification for further information.
What are the rewards?
- Minimum 29 days' holiday (+ additional bank holidays)
- Option to buy and sell additional holidays
- Flexible working, including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption packages
- Season ticket travel loans
- Company contributory pension scheme
- Excellent discounts at major high street retailers
- Employee Wellbeing initiatives
- Paid Charity days
- My Cycle scheme
- Being part of one of the most forward thinking employers in the charity sector
For any questions relating to this role, please contact Dione Riach on Dione.riach@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting ref 3254
Closing date: Monday 27th January 2020
Interviews planned for: Monday 3rd Febuary 2020
We look forward to your application!
Guidant is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
