Senior Brokerage Payment Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, 6 Month FTC
Salary: PO1 £38,934 – £40,755 per annum
Interview: w/c 2nd June 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 18th 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

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Officer within the Brokerage Payments Team. You will be working knowledge of the Councils finance/ payment systems the successful candidate will be working closely with providers and Adult Social Care service to ensure accurate and timely payments across all Adult Social Care services.

As a Senior Officer this role acts as a deputy to the Payments Manager reviewing and processing outgoing payments, assisting with the development of the team to ensure targets are met and financial controls are maintained. The role involves supporting providers regularly with training around the Councils invoicing and scheduled payment system, resolving complex payment queries, processing ad hoc payments and payment reconciliations.

The successful candidate will seek to improve systems and business processes in conjunction with other departments and be a point of guidance to the wider service promoting good practice around financial processes. More important, to meet challenging objectives of a service that helps to maximise independence of service users and collaborate with managers across other parts of the Council to continually improve service delivery.

About you

This role requires strong working knowledge of ContrOCC Social Care finance system, as well as SAP finance systems and Excel. The successful candidate will work pro-actively with colleagues across the wider directorate, sharing knowledge and expertise around financial processes confidently. Liaising with stakeholders to effectively resolve complex queries in a timely manner.

You will possess leadership skills required to act as a deputy for the payments team manager, contributing towards overall team targets and objectives and have the ability to undertake quality checks of financial procedures to ensure accuracy and monitor timely performance. Development of KPI and reporting tools to improve service delivery. Knowledge of the core business of the service and of the relevant legislation concerning Social care and safeguarding vulnerable adults is very important. You will need to successfully maintain relationships with external care providers ultimately improving the experience for providers and residents.

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 up to 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.

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