Purchasing Officer

4 weeks ago


Oldham, United Kingdom Oldham Council Full time

Children and Young People

Children’s Social Care

**Ref**: G4/OL
- **Contract**: Permanent.

**Salary**:£24,496 - £26,845 per annum (Grade 4)

**Hours**: 36.66 per week

**Based**: Metropolitan Place, Hobson Street, OL1 1TT

**Closing Date**: Wednesday 19th April 2023

**Shortlisting & Interview Dates**: TBC.

Job Description & Person Specification.docx

**Role Overview**:
Do you want to support us to help families to keep children safe? Are you looking to make a real difference? Have you got good finance and administrative skills? If so, Children’s Social Care Services are looking for people like you to complete finance purchasing tasks within Children’s Social Care ensuring all payments are made accurately and on time.

If you join us, we will ensure that you have everything needed to do your job well and support you to progress in your career. We have a loyal, supportive, and enthusiastic workforce who will give you a very warm welcome.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Administrate and deliver the day to day financial and purchasing function for Children’s Social Care services.
- Set up, maintain and monitor a range of financial and budget information, analysing statistical and financial data.
- Undertake standard checks and means testing to ensure that the right people are receiving the correct amounts of money
- Conduct regular quality checks on financial payments in line with procedures.
- Reconcile and track invoices are paid in a timely manner.
- Run data reports, and identify, analyse and correct errors.
- Co-ordinate and minute decision making panels.

**Key Requirements**:
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

- Good organisational skills and be able to work on own initiative and to competing deadlines.
- Ability to maintain clear and accurate financial and audit records.
- Be a flexible team player, able to work at pace with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge and experience of using computer packages and internal systems.
- Knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulations

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