Finance Assistant

+ Supporting one of our customers with a range of finance areas including
+ Daily monitoring of bank balances and clearance of transactions through the month.
+ Accounts Payable tasks to ensure invoices are coded, approved and paid promptly.
+ Accounts Receivable tasks to ensure invoices are raised correctly and funds collected promptly.
+ Preparing reconciliation packs and helping with balance sheet clearance queries.
+ General customer and supplier queries., + To participate in the management of the ledger; reconciling the relevant control accounts. This will require analysis and investigation to resolve financial discrepancies and manage any ledger issues that arise.
+ To input, review and calculate VAT liabilities including the submission of monthly returns.
+ To finalise monthly Fees and Recharges and to liaise with each client and others as necessary regarding issues and problems to ensure transactions are dealt with promptly, and provide reports as required.
+ To promptly check invoices as to validity, coding and pricing and raise any invoice queries with the providers, thereby promoting the achievement of the customer's better payment practice code (BPPC).
+ To monitor the activity and payment of invoices, providing the responsible manager, with regular and current monitoring spreadsheets. To identify activity by provider and to identify any activity trends, for disclosure to the client, following review by the responsible manager. To allocate invoices when required to the correct PO or Non-PO workflow.
+ Undertake the supplier manager role liaising with requisitioners and suppliers to ensure all information is correct & up to date.
+ To ensure that purchase ledger management duties are undertaken in accordance with procedures to provide assurance to the customers; including monitoring and reconciliation of purchasing accounts, reconciliation of supplier statements to the Accounts Payable system, ensuring suppliers are correctly categorised within the AP system, ensuring income and expenditure is recorded and mapped correctly to the Operating Cost Statement on a monthly and cumulative basis in order to maintain robust and accurate financial reporting.
+ Support the responsible manager in producing and validating Operating Cost Statements on a monthly basis and at year-end.
+ Maintaining a cumulative income and expenditure log that identifies current year, prior year and recharge activity.
+ Assist the Finance Hub Lead in producing and reviewing the BPPC performance of the customer.
+ Assist in the agreement of balances exercise undertaken throughout the year and at year end, by confirming valid outstanding invoices and year to date expenditure and responding to any other information requests made by the team in respect thereof.
+ To include the customers' payroll transactions in their ledgers; correcting any issues that arise from the payroll system to ensure accuracy.
+ Maintain user access and hierarchy in accordance with the customers' Scheme of Delegation.
+ Carry out the monthly recoding exercise, preparation and upload of monthly recoding journals, the clearance of suspense accounts and monthly cash journal inputting.
+ Put together the monthly reconciliation pack and control account matrix for review by the responsible manager.
+ Daily Trial Balance and transaction reporting and any ad-hoc reports as required.
+ Supervision and resource planning of transactional processing staff.
+ Initial escalation point for Supplier queries.
+ Responsibility for petty cash process.
+ Code and post all miscellaneous cash transactions to the appropriate code in accordance with the customer banking procedures.
+ Process Invoice Payment Files ensuring correctly authorised and correct supplier references are used.
+ Set up/amend/deactivate Finance system users.
+ Review of Accounts Payable and Receivable housekeeping reports checking that items are cleared and progressed as necessary.
+ Ensuring that debtor levels are reviewed and reported accurately in order that they can be managed appropriately.
+ Daily monitoring of bank balances and updating cashbook with actual transactions through the month. Carrying out internal admin duties as and when required.
+ Maintain and file all records required to ensure that A&GCSU is able to satisfy the requirements of Service Auditor Reporting (SAR) without any exceptions occurring.

We are looking for a proactive and focused team member to join the Hub Team . This will run to the end of April and will consider fixed term and secondments.
The team work mainly from home, with occasional meetings or team days in the office in either Leicester or Derby.
The role requires good Excel skills, good people skills to supervise team members, a great team ethic to achieve joint goals, and a strong customer services attitude.

Arden & GEM is a leading Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) working across the health and care system in England to provide transformational solutions, business support and clinical services. We work in partnership with other health and care organisations to design, develop and deliver better care for patients that improves health outcomes while making efficient use of resources. Regardless of function, specialism, or location, we are all united in our commitment to improving health and wellbeing for everyone.
Our services are built on a strong foundation of experienced people who build great relationships, a commitment to NHS values and a thorough understanding of our clients and the challenges they face.
Arden & GEM CSU is committed to supporting the redeployment of our at risk employees. In line with our policy, staff at risk may be given preferential consideration to posts that could be considered suitable alternative employment. We reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. We apologise if you experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle.

We are a multi award-winning organisation that has achieved the prestigious Investors in People Platinum Award for 'We invest in people' and 'We invest in wellbeing' and are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We believe that every team member should have the opportunity to contribute and share their ideas.
Our Finance Team has Level 2 Towards Excellence Accreditation, we hold accreditation as an employer with AAT, ACCA, we are a CIMA Premier Partner and and CIPFA Accredited Employer.
We reward the hard work and commitment of our people with the following benefits:
+ A competitive salary with annual pay reviews
+ A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days
+ Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
+ Flexible working and family friendly policies, including enhanced parental leave and pay
+ A wide range of in-house and external learning and development opportunities
+ Access to salary sacrifice and discount schemes
+ Access to employee assistance and occupational health services., Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.
All new entrants to the CSU for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.