Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector orginisation 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 
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.