Accounts Officer Estates

5 months ago


Corby, United Kingdom North Northamptonshire Council Full time

About the role

To provide finance support to the Senior Asset Manager and other team members, and to assist the Senior Accounts Officer in month end and year-end reporting under the supervision of the Senior Asset Manager to ensure that operations and budgets are being managed effectively enabling compliance with Financial and other regulations.

To carry out administration of the Estates Team including raising Purchase Orders, Contracts, Invoices and other associated accounts receivable and payable as required.

What will you be doing?

1. Monitor, the performance of day-to-day budgeting for the corporate property portfolio through the Councils financial system ERP Gold.

2. Support both the Senior Asset Manager and Senior Account Officer with analysis of financial information, provide advice where appropriate or signpost to other colleagues, to ensure effective budget management.

3. Review and challenge contract summary information to enable the submission of work requisitions for project work to generate orders to suppliers, contractors, and consultants.

4. Provide advice in liaison with other finance colleagues to members of the Asset Management team to improve their financial awareness.

5. Maintain allocated major supplier accounts (review and challenge open orders, receipt orders, process invoices, reconciliation of statements, resolve queries) to enable the Council to meet its contract terms in relation to payment.

6. Ensure that the necessary payment schedules / exports from the various systems are uploaded, identifying and correcting any errors, to ensure payment within the agreed terms.

7. Support other members of the Asset Management team by producing monthly debt reports and helping to reduce this and provide recommendations to the Property Management Surveyors in relation to escalation routes.

About you

You will be self motivated, comfortable using IT systems and posses good numeracy and written skills. We require a team player with common sense to deal with daily queries, and process orders and invoices generated by the Estates Team in addition to supporting the wider Assets Team. You will possess good time management skills and be comfortable managing a varied workload. 

Our benefits

We offer:

a competitive salary a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection. opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:

helping people live active fulfilled lives caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities enabling a thriving and successful economy leading on a green and sustainable environment ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

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