ASYE Contract Assistant x 2

Job Title: Finance, Procurement and Disbursements Assistant (ASYE) X 2

Department: Finance, Procurement and Disbursements

Location: Office based - Leeds, West Yorkshire

Job status: Fixed Terms until 31^st March 2020

Salary: £19,691.20 per annum

Hours: Full time, 36 hours

Closing Date: 5pm on 18^th July 2018

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Finance, Procurement and Disbursement Assistant to join our team based in Leeds.

Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce. Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles. Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk

The team

The Finance, Procurement and Disbursement (FPD) team forms part of Corporate Resource in Skills for Care. The FPD team is a flexible, responsive and solution focused team that oversees all financial functions and ensures that all of our procurement and disbursement activities are done in a fair and equitable manner that follows the relevant legislations and good practice whilst also following strict guidelines laid down by our primary funders.

The role

In the role, you will provide effective and efficient support to the FPD Officer to whom you will report to and other colleagues across the organisation.

You will provide support to the disbursement of one of our funding streams the ASYE. You will be responsible for day to day management of applications, claims, evidence checking, payments and dealing with customer queries in reference to the disbursement of the ASYE funds.

You will provide an efficient and effective accounting support to members of the wider team in its key areas of work: Finance Reporting, purchase ledger transactions and cash and treasury management to support the delivery of the ASYE programme.

We are looking for a person who is able to work under pressure whilst maintaining professionalism and accuracy, have a strong attention to detail and be able to work as part of a team.  You will have excellent written and spoken English skills and ideally an Intermediate level of IT skills, experience of using Microsoft Office and using call logging systems. Experience of using bespoke database and finance systems an advantage but full training will be given.

Requirements of the role

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of working in a similar role and provide examples to evidence their effective organisational and communication skills. They will also be a team player and have experience of providing high quality customer service to colleagues and stakeholders.

Experience in a similar role within an office environment would be beneficial as the role requires strong administration skills with the ability to be flexible in order to respond to changing tasks and the ability to prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines.

Skills for Care is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

A DBS check is not required for this role. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.

If you are interested in this role please visit the website for the full job description.