Job Details
Job purpose:
- To process the Council’s banking and income transactions.
- To support service areas in collecting income and making payments
- To resolve banking and income queries from internal and external customers
- To assist in the management of the Council’s treasury investments and borrowing & pension fund
- To reconcile and post cash, debit / credit card and banking transactions.
Main duties:
- Prepare daily cashflows
- Post bank statements & resolve banking queries
- Reconcile and bank cheque payments received
- Provision of petty cash service on an interim basis until it is phased out
- Monitor and clear suspense accounts & undertake bank reconciliations resolving outstanding balances in a timely fashion. Proactively identify posting errors and propose on-going remedial action.
- Process BACs runs & initiate CHAPS payments according to agreed policies & protocols
- Undertake reconciliations between the Council’s general ledger and feeder systems such as Icon & Logotech resolving outstanding balances in a timely fashion. Proactively identify posting errors and propose on-going remedial action.
- Update treasury systems (Logotech) with deals and provide / review deal confirmations.
- Support banking projects and upgrades as required including system testing.
- Regularly monitor and clear queries / requests logged in the SSC case management system or other relevant email inboxes
- Provide ad hoc financial advice and support through all appropriate channels in use in the Shared Service centre – for example online guidance, a telephone helpdesk, CRM call systems etc. actively supporting a culture of self service
- Provide support and information to individuals authorising payments including creation, amendment and deletion of active users
- Contribute to the completion of the annual Final Accounts and to satisfactorily respond to internal and external audit queries in line with the Council’s current audit protocol
- Provide accounting supporting, including reconciliations, posting and monitoring of contributions and benefits paid to the Pension Fund.
- To deputise as required for the principal accountant banking & income and provide cover for other Accountants as necessary
- To undertake training and development in order to fulfil the requirements of the role
- Participate in all council staff management and development processes including appraisals, my conversation, finance forum etc.
- To satisfactorily respond to internal and external audit queries in line with the Council’s current audit protocol
- To undertake any other temporary duties consistent with the basic objectives and duties of the post.
Additional Information:
- £24.83 per hour
- 36 hours a week
