Payments Officer – Childrens Services

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SO1
Salary: £37,068 – £38,058 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 5th May 2025

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

To work as a member of the Payments Team supporting the Payments Team Manager, ensuring the timely processing of invoice payments, scheduled payments and reconciliation of payments. Taking responsibilities for complex financial transactions and queries. Supporting the Payments Team Manager to make timely payments, recover overpayments, maintaining financial controls whilst promoting acceptable standards of service.

About You

• Educated at GCSE level with proven good literacy and numeracy.
• Ability to maintain effective and efficient financial digital and administration systems ensuring that office procedures are adhered to.
• Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to prioritise, be flexible and arrange workloads to set targets.
• Ability to write letters, memos and brief reports.
• Ability to communicate clearly and tactfully with members of the public, staff and external agencies.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to interrogate, interpret and add data on systems such as SAP and Mosaic, Liquid Logic or experience of other finance and customer records database systems at an advanced level.
• Excellent Excel skills; including the ability to sort, filter and use formulae.
• Ability to use computer packages such as the electronic mail system, databases and word processing packages.

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