What's involved with this role: JOB TITLE: Placements Finance Officer - Children’s Services REF: K&C 5266945 Pay rate: £30.00 per hour PAYE Hybrid role 3 days in the office and based between Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. An Enhanced DBS is a requirement for this role. The role: On behalf of a local council, we are seeking a Placements Finance Officer, within a Children’s Services team. You will work in a small placements team, serving two councils, which commissions placements for children and young people aged 0 – 25 in a range of settings including foster care, residential children’s homes, residential parent and child assessment centres and semi-Independent units It is essential that you have previous experience of working with Mosaic, preferably within a local authority. Key Responsibilities: Maintain an overview of children’s placements, advising managers on trends and implications, in particularly regarding placement stability and high cost and long-term external placements. Work with financial information and a range of systems– e.g. downloading transactions, running reports. Ensure accurate timely payments, resolving supplier (and other) queries, and interrogating systems and processes to support these. To provide finance team and social worker teams with financial information relating to placement costs and supplier payments. This will include activity data and unit cost information To undertake reconciliations of supplier accounts. Identify errors on invoices and miscoding and take actions to make corrections. To assist the finance team with the payment process, relating to invoice queries and follow up with suppliers. To load commitments onto the social work system and for invoices to be recorded stored appropriately. What the client is looking for: Educated to degree level or equivalent evidence of continuing professional development Knowledge of Local Authority finance processes either within a local authority setting or the private and voluntary sector Previous Mosaic experience - essential Relevant finance experience Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications especially MS Excel and Outlook Familiarity with Mosaic, Oracle & IBC/SAP An interest in finance and a basic understanding of the financial issues facing the public sector How to Apply Quote the Job Title and Reference Number in your application. Submit your CV in Word format. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis—early submission is recommended. If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. "XI AD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.