Brokerage Assistant - Romford

Brokerage Assistant – Romford (Temp Vacancy)

Umbrella Pay Rate: £15.89

Full-Time (37 hours)

Job Purpose:

• Be part of a team providing an integrated financial administrative and management service for Children’s Services, entailing accurate, timely and robust budget management support ensuring all systems and advice complies with the Council’s financial framework and policy.
• Reconcile service based systems to the Council’s core accounting system
• Process payments to Providers, suppliers, clients and members of staff efficiently through the appropriate systems
• Provide financial management information and advice to budget holders in respect of budget preparation and monitoring.
• Support the Brokerage Officer with the tasks relating to the management of the Children’s Service procurement cards.
• Collate data and provide accurate management information with regard to Grants.

Accountabilities:  

• To be able to input data accurately into the team’s database and be able to produce reports. To undertake data maintenance and analysis using spreadsheets
• Undertake regularly reconciliations of appropriate service based systems to the Council’s core accounting system and ensure that any discrepancies are resolved in a timely fashion
• Specifically, ensure that financial commitments on the ContrOCC system are up-to-date and payments reconcile to the finance system
• To work closely with service teams, JCU, finance teams and education colleagues to ensure value for money and that financial and contractual processes are correctly followed.
• To assist in the preparation of detailed annual revenue budgets, including profiles of spend, in accordance with the agreed corporate timetable, ensuring that these reflect the operational plan and service priorities.
• To assist in the monitoring and reconciling of revenue and capital budgets against spend and profile, compile projections together with details of and reasons for potential/actual over or under spending and report to the Brokerage Officer on a monthly basis or as directed.
• To assist in the monitoring and reconciling of revenue and capital budgets against spend and profile, compile projections together with details of and reasons for potential/actual over or under spending and report to the Brokerage Officer on a monthly basis or as directed.
• To assist in the monitoring and reconciling of revenue and capital budgets against spend and profile, compile projections together with details of and reasons for potential/actual over or under spending and report to the Brokerage Officer on a monthly basis or as directed.

We offer:

• 24 hour one on one specialist consultant based within your geographical area
• 4Recruitment Services Employee Benefits Programme
• Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy or other vacancies in your area please contact  parbejm@4recruitmentservices.com