Finance Co-ordinator

Job Title: Transport Services Finance Co-ordinator
Location: Forward Drive, Harrow, HA3 8NT
Employer: Pertemps Recruitment Partnership for Harrow Council
Contract Type: Temporary Ongoing
Hours of Work: Full-time, 35 hours
Rate: £ 18.21

Overview of Transport Services Finance Co-ordinator
Pertemps has an exciting opportunity within Harrow Council for a self-driven and motivated Transport Services Finance Co-ordinator to join an expanding team. The role of Housing Assistant Officer has a competitive pay rate of £ 18.21 Payee. Other benefits include excellent training and support for career development and 21 days of holiday (excluding Bank Holidays).
Overview of Transport Services Finance Co-ordinator:

• The role involves ensuring robust financial systems and processes are in place, developing new processes where needed, reporting on compliance and escalating where required.
• Supporting the Transport Services team and in particular the Special Needs Transport team in managing budgets and forecasting spend.
• Raise purchase orders on SAP.
• Monthly compilation of performance reports for service areas including data from service areas and financial reconciliation.
• Collate data from across the Council to provide business intelligence.
• Contribute to workshops to drive service improvement and share best practice.
• Carry out periodic stock checks to produce accurate usage and stock information.
• Produce monthly journals and invoices for services to ensure all outstanding income items are collected timely.

The successful candidate needs to have:

• Knowledge of equality issues and commitment to the aims and objectives of the Council's Equal Opportunities Policy and impact.
• Working knowledge of and able to use PC based word processing and spreadsheet packages including advanced data analysis techniques.
• Experience of working in a finance office environment.
• Able to demonstrate experience of reconciling performance data with accounting financial systems to ensure all income and expenditure expected accounted for within a service area with various analytical skills.
• Experience of working with customers and key stakeholders and delivering business related activities
• Experience and demonstrable in writing performance reports, improvement plans or project plans and procedural documents.
• Demonstrate knowledge of working with Financial Regulations.

About us
For almost 60 years, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership has been the market leader in providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions and we are one of the most established players in the recruitment industry. The Sunday Times has listed us as one of the Best 100 Companies to work for 14 years running. We are not a big scary faceless company, quite the opposite: we strongly believe in the personal touch with everything we do. We are proud to be accredited 'investor in people' which is reflected across our business in the length of service and career progression of our employees.
Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

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