One of our local authority clients are currently recruiting for a Finance Technician. This is a 3 month temporary contract with possible further extension based on budget and performance.

Main Purpose of Post/Job Summary

To provide overall finance administration support for the residential and non-residential adult care function and ensure that all applications/referrals are processed and assessed in accordance with the policies of Lincolnshire County Council and DOH regulations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To provide an overall finance support/processing service to various clients in a flexible manner, ensuring that an effective, efficient and customer focussed service is delivered within required KPI, PI and activity timescales.
• To work as part of a team using an adult care case management system for service users requiring direct payments, provider payments, deferred payments, residential and non-residential assessments.
• To ensure that the advice is interpreted and managed within local policies and national guidance to direct payments, provider payments, deferred payments, residential and non-residential assessments.
• To ensure that complex data management is provided on behalf of the local authority and falls within local policies and national guidance to process and maintain direct payments, provider payments, deferred payments, residential and non-residential assessments.
• To manage workload and prioritise tasks effectively and extract data to help support any service user complaints/requests (including SARS or FOI).
• Effectively communicate with outside bodies such as legal service organisations etc.
• To deal with routine correspondence and telephone enquiries of a personal and confidential nature pertaining to service user’s financial details and the payments to service providers.
• To deal with daily incoming and outgoing post for the direct payments, provider payments, deferred payments, residential and non-residential assessments teams within agreed timescales and deadlines.
• To work together with your colleagues in reviewing and updating procedures to improve quality and consistency.
• To maintain effective working relationships with Lincolnshire County Council staff, providers of services, service users, and other professionals.
• To maintain computer and manual filing systems.
• Such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post and with the agreement of the post holder.

The above is a brief overview of the role, details and specification will be provided should you be successful. If interested in this position, please send your CV to Nia Hirani at Coyle Personnel Ltd.