Assistant Control Officer
Scale point: 20 - 23 | Based in Twickenham
About the service
The Finance Function within Achieving for Children is responsible for delivering a comprehensive financial support service that is tailored towards the needs of a successful children's service organisation.
The team is responsible for upholding strong financial probity across the company. Through managing effective financial systems and accounting policies and procedures, the team supports the company to maintain a sound financial position that will enable it to deliver its key priorities and drive the continual improvement of services. The team works closely with colleagues from across the organisation including Budget Managers, the Leadership Team, other support services such as Human
Resources and stakeholders from both inside and outside the organisation. The Finance team is part of the Business Services directorate.
The Finance team covers all finance functions including Management Accounts, Financial Accounts, Risk Management and Transactional Processing with this role focusing on management accounts priorities.
About the role
The Assistant Control Officer post sits within the Transactions and Control team and reports to the Senior financial Accountant. The post has a broad range of duties to ensure that Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledgers are kept accurate and up to date so they can be relied upon for Management Information and for Year end Reporting. This includes assisting with debt recovery in line with AfC's policies and procedures, validating and uploading journals, and processing payment runs and emergency payments.
The post holder will assist with the transfer, validation and reconciliation of inputs from external systems such as Payroll and Procurement Card.
At times they may be required to complete ad hoc tasks in order to assist the management accounts team, this includes raising recoupment invoices and dealing with recoupment queries.
This post has no direct management responsibilities.
About you: our role specification
Qualifications
- Studying towards entry level AAT or an equivalent accounting qualification, or experience of working within a financial control role.
Skills and experience
- Experience of using finance systems accurately to input transactions and generate reports.
- Experience of debt recovery processes and customer service.
- Experience of resolving financial administration queries from internal and external customers.
- Experience of updating and maintaining spreadsheets with an understanding of using basic formulas.
- Can demonstrate an ability to perform financial calculations in line with guidance.
- An ability to plan a workload of daily, monthly and annual tasks and to manage any conflicting priorities.
- Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.
Personal attributes
- A passion for Achieving for Children's vision, mission and values (trust, empower. respect) to support children and young people to live safe, happy, healthy and successful lives.
- Able to use a range of digital hardware or software to support your work effectively i.e. Microsoft or Google software.
- Strong organisational abilities including: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving and multitasking.
- Able to work flexibly and independently with limited management oversight.
- Commitment to collaborative working within Achieving for Children and across organisational boundaries in the best interests of children and families.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills that are open and honest.