- Pay Rate:
up to £17.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3-6 months
- ALCONBURY,
PE28 4YE
Temporary Income Officer
Job Ref: 9173 24/06/22
As an Income Officer for Cambridgeshire County Council through Opus Northamptonshire, your key prioritise would be processing incoming payments, transferring income between accounts, identifying missing payments, bulk data input and responding to queries.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide operational services within the Income Control team for LGSS. Responsible for ensuring that efficient, accurate and timely end-to-end processes are adhered to. Work as part of a team supporting your colleagues, mentoring Apprentices to a high standard.
- Respond to and resolve service requests and queries ensuring operational service priorities are met through ownership of the issue, adhering to agreed service standards and according to operational procedures.
- To process accurately and timely all payments received, through the various bank statements currently in operation, processing cheques, ABC Payments, Giro’s as well as processing refunds as required.
- Take responsibility and ownership on areas of the service where improvements could be made by making recommendations and implementing agreed changes to improve efficiency.
- To take responsibility for DD set up/collection/maintenance, customer maintenance/set up, interfaces, Credit memos.
- Work collaboratively on projects that support developments and improvements for the Transactions Service in a professional and positive way including supporting system implementations including conducting system testing and delivering training to staff on new system processes.
- Manage own workload, processing high quality information / data accurately and in a timely manner
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Experience of ERP together with cash management systems such as ICON to process income
- Experience of customer service/Accounts Receivable
- IT skills
- Proactive, confident and customer focused
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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