Finance Officer

Job description

Job Title: Finance Officer

Hourly Rate: £16.25 per hour PAYE

Location: Purley, Croydon

Duration: 3-month temporary contract, with view for further extension thereafter

Hybrid work pattern - 3 days in the office based in Purley and 2 days working from home

We are currently recruiting for a Finance Officer on behalf of our public sector client based in South London.

Key duties:

·  Check and verify invoices to purchase orders, ensuring that the correct quantity, pricing and delivery charges are billed for

·  Raise purchase orders, track and report facility costs and operational good and services supplied

·  Identify issues, initiate and lead resolution of discrepancies contacting relevant stakeholders

·  Develop a good working relationship with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner

·  Provide expenditure analysis, to enable Provide Equipment Hub to manage its limited resources well

·  Liaising with procurement and warehouse teams daily to resolve queries on orders that could delay payment of invoices

·  Liaising with external suppliers daily to obtain POD's and credit notes for return of goods or incorrectly billed invoices

·  Run various reports from the system to show orders yet to be invoiced and contact suppliers requesting copy invoices

·  Managing the mailbox and responding to queries

·  Completing supplier statement reconciliations, requesting copy invoices if they have not been received

Key skills/knowledge :

·  The successful applicant will have previous finance experience, with strong accuracy and numeracy skills

·  IT literate including the use of Excel (including pivot tables and use of formulas) and accounting systems

·  Able to work with minimal supervision and be proactive in problem solving

·  Ability to carry out a broad variety of financial tasks

·  Experience of using spreadsheets, word processing packages, computerised financial, procurement and logistics packages

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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