Finance Officer

We are working with an established healthcare organisation in the Thanet are who are looking to permanently employ a Finance Office on a part time basis up to 20 hours / week.

Please note that only applicants within a commutable distance and those with no restrictions on their right to work will be considered.

The package includes 27 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday, company pension, employee discount scheme, free on-site parking and the possibility of working from home.

Responsibilities

Accounts:

• Responsible for ensuring complex monthly recharges are actioned, planning workload to ensure deadlines are met and carrying out checks for accuracy.
• Act as the point of reference and escalation for complex invoice queries.
• Ensure supplier/sales invoices are raised monthly and income allocated correctly.
• Track and monitor aged debtors, ensuring the chasing of payments as appropriate.
• Ensuring all invoices across services lines are added by the 20th day of each month.
• Support the Finance Manager with monthly management accounts and identify variation in service line budgets highlighting to relevant Managers to rectify.
• Assist with bank statement reconciliation and add appropriate invoices to trade-shift.
• Maintain the fixed asset list and prepayments and ensure these balances with Sage.
• Liaise with ICB to identify/ensure finance queries are resolved in a timely manner.
• Track and monitor income, which is classified as being eligible for VAT, notifying the Finance Manager when the organisation is reaching the threshold.
• Provide input to the year-end process to ensure the accurate and timely closures.
• Assist the Finance Manager with providing information for the statutory accounts.
• Investigate and resolve difficult queries from staff/customers/suppliers relating to late or non-payment, discrepancies, payment analysis and receipt of goods, etc.
• Crosschecking and processing invoices in line with contracts in place, ensuring they are coded accurately and authorised by the correct person in line with finance policy.
• Support the Finance Manager with the collation of data for reporting.
• Assist the FM/Senior Management in improvements in economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for monthly journals to ensure all costs are allocated to correct budgets.
• To undertake and provide support to surveys and or audits as and when required.
• Support and contribute to the updating of the Finance policies as and when required.

PCN Finance:

• Raise invoices to the appropriate PCN's, ensuring that this is accrued.
• Where appropriate submit ARRS claim onto the portal for PCN employed staff.
• Manage the accounts for the PCN's, undertaking bank reconciliation and ensuring payments are made and received as appropriate.

Budgets:

• Support Finance Manager in the development of the budgets, collating as required.
• Identify and report variances, trends or problems at an early stage and communicate with services managers and Director of Operations.
• Respond to enquiries from budget holders and managers assisting them with all finance issues.

Skills and Experience

• AAT Level 4 or working towards.
• Appropriate demonstrable experience in a Finance setting.
• Knowledge of Management Accounting.
• Experience using SAGE software.
• Advanced understanding of Excel.
• Understanding of accounting procedures.
• Good time management skills and able to work as part of a team.
• Ability to suggest and produce new approaches to problems.
• Ability to deal confidently and diplomatically with colleagues at all levels including the handling of confidential/sensitive information.

To find out more about the position, please apply and we will be in touch to discuss the role in more detail.

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