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

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