Housing Support Finance Officer Lowestoft Contract £22.36 per hour Our client is looking for an experienced Housing Support Finance Officer. We have a number of opportunities we are recruiting for visit our website for more details colbernlimited co uk Key Responsibilities: 1. To work with colleagues to ensure that the Council’s medium term financial strategies are delivered and support the Council’s Strategic Plan. 2. To use professional judgement, skills, and expertise to analyze and interpret financial information and situations, and to give support required by the Housing service area relating to Housing Payables. Identify when consultation with the Housing Support Accountant is required and refer issues as appropriate. 3. To work co-operatively and collaboratively with staff in the Housing Support Finance team, colleagues across service teams and with external partners and external auditors. 4. To provide support in all financial aspects of the Housing Payables finance. 5. To ensure delivery to key deadlines, challenging existing procedures and methodologies. 6. To highlight emerging issues and be proactive in recommending and implementing corrective actions. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES colbernlimited co uk Specific Duties: Assist the Housing Support Accountant in the effective management of the Housing Invoices mailbox. Review incoming emails containing invoices, delivery tickets, statements, credit notes, queries, and purchase order requests; split and save multi-invoice PDFs into individual files and store them in relevant folders. Catalogue invoices into appropriate folders such as: To Be Matched, Totalmobile/Orchard, Stock, Purchase Order, Awaiting VO’s, Out for Signing. Collate and gather the required information to the setting up of new vendors on the main accounting system as required by the Corporate Finance team ensuring documentation is correct. Process invoices, credit notes, statements and other ad hoc payments requests received, through the document imaging software to main accounting system purchase invoice headers, linking orders where appropriate, and sending for approval. Raising and providing Purchase orders for the Housing team, send for approval. Matching invoices to works orders in Orchard and completing these works orders. Matching Goods received notes against invoices. Match invoices with relevant delivery tickets and purchase orders; apply correct finance, department, and/or project codes, including separate VAT calculations for zero-rated and standard-rated items. Process monthly direct debit transactions through the document imaging software to main accounting system purchase invoice headers and send for approval. Ensuring the documentation is accurate and complete and details are accurately recorded on the monitoring tool. Ensure VAT is correctly recorded and assist the Housing Support Accountant in managing the process where VAT compliant invoices are obtained. Respond in an effective and timely manner to queries relating to purchase invoice processing within your scheme of responsibility. Raise queries with colleagues relating to the processing of purchase invoices and purchase orders effectively manage responses. The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer