Accounts Receivable Officer

Accounts Receivable Officer
Local Authority Portsmouth
Portsmouth Location
Part Time Role – Wednesday to Friday 09:00-15:30/16:00
6 Month Contract
18.5 Hours per week
£16ph Umbrella
£15.08ph PAYE Inclusive or £13.46ph PAYE Exclusive

Job Purpose

The successful candidate will be part of a team of 6 working on the collection of income billed using Oracle Accounts Receivable, which could be invoices raised for a number of different local authority services, such as Licensing fees, Commercial rents, hire of school facilities, professional fees or a variety of different service charges. You will therefore be supporting a range of different finance departments across the local authority.

Working as part of the Central Income and Payments team in Financial Services, the main responsibilities of the role are to ensure that that the Central Accounts Receivable system is administered in an accurate and timely manner.

Main responsibilities

• You will be dealing with queries and enquiries from both internal and external customers on a daily basis
• You will be responsible for maintaining the Customer Database, which includes the set up and amendment of customer records in the Oracle Accounts Receivable system to enable invoices to be raised
• You will also be responsible for setting up new direct debit instructions and amendments to existing instructions.
• Dispatching the automated reminder letters to a weekly or monthly schedule according to the different types of billing
• Correcting receipt posting queries
• Raising credit notes, raising refunds for overpayments and processing write offs
• Daily invoice distribution, which includes the printing of Invoices, managing enclosures, and occasionally raising invoices for smaller departments
• Providing support to the Income and Payments section as and when required

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.

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