Finance Officer

We're looking for a Finance Officer to join our Finance Team, located at our Head Office at Caledonian Road.

£30,282.00 per annum, working 35 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

Want to feel like you're part of one team? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.

The Finance Officer will be a key member of the Finance Transactions Team and will undertake a varied and interesting range of income, rebilling and cash collection tasks.

The post -holder will assist in ensuring all invoices are issued in a timely manner and for maintaining the debtor ledger.

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

What you'll do:

* Process all periodic and adhoc invoices for contracts, rebilling other activities undertaken by the business, on the invoicing system (CSB) per the required timescales
* Liaise with colleagues in the business to establish correct invoice data and required supporting information
* Assist with updating customer data including contact and address information on CSB and SUN
* Provide debt analysis ( spreadsheet and/or reports generated by the arrears management module (Collect Plus) ), as required
* Monitor the Rebilling and Income mailboxes and deal with queries and invoice requests promptly and effectively
* Assist in the provision of an effective credit control function by following established procedures to ensure prompt collection of Look Ahead's debts
* Assist with the allocation of payments by identifying cash received
* Participate in the periodic reconciliation of debtor accounts
* Maintain the invoice registers on an on-going basis
* Run month end reports and extract information as necessary.
* Work flexibly and co-operatively as part of the team and the Finance Department

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead

About you:

* Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage service-user involvement
* Approachable and open behaviour
* Prefers working as part of a group or team
* Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
* Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
* Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
* Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
* Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
* Is essentially customer-focused
* Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
* Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviours
* Is numerate and confident with figures

What you'll bring:

Essential:

Excellent time management skills, with the ability to manage their own workload
Excellent attention to detail
Ability to cope under pressure
Excellent IT & communication skills
Intermediate Excel skills

Desirable:

Experience of working as part of a Finance team
Advanced Excel skills

About us:

Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 120 services, providing support to around 6000 customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
* We focus on Excellence and innovation.
* We are Caring and Compassionate.
* We are Inclusive and Trusted.
* We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.