Payments Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SO1
Salary: £38,256 – £39,276 per annum
Location: Hybrid, 3 days on-site
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date:  22nd February 2026
Interview Date: Week commencing 2nd March 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

As a Payments Officer within the Children’s Services Commissioning Team, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that providers and clients are paid accurately and on time. Working closely with the Payments Team Manager, you will process invoices, scheduled payments and one off payments, carry out reconciliations, and maintain accurate financial records across systems such as SAP, Mosaic, Liquid Logic, ControCC and AllPay.

You’ll take ownership of complex financial transactions and queries, support the recovery of overpayments, and contribute to maintaining strong financial controls across the service. You’ll also run system reports, support year end processes, and provide advice to internal and external stakeholders regarding payment and finance-related issues. This is an opportunity to play an important role in ensuring high standards of financial administration that directly support children’s services across the borough.

About You

You will bring proven experience of working in a financial, administrative or data processing environment, with strong numeracy, accuracy and organisational skills. You are confident managing digital finance systems, maintaining records, and working to clear procedures and deadlines.

You’ll be someone who can prioritise a busy workload, adapt to changing demands, and remain calm under pressure. Strong communication skills are essential, as you’ll be liaising with colleagues, providers and other stakeholders with clarity and tact. You will be highly competent in using Excel and comfortable interrogating and inputting data across finance and case management systems such as SAP, Mosaic, Liquid Logic or similar

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk