Interim ASC Payments & Billing Officer

Job Opportunity – Interim ASC Payments & Billing Officer – West Midlands

A local authority client of mine are seeking an Interim ASC Payments & Billing Officer to join their Adult Social Care Finance team on a 9-12 month contract basis.

Job Role: Interim ASC Payments & Billing Officer

Contract Duration: 9-12 Months

Rate: DOE

IR35: Inside IR35.

Hybrid: 3-4 days in office per week for the first month, thereafter this can reduce down to 1 day in office per week. Free parking is available.

Days: 5 days per week (could possibly consider 4 days per week).

Earliest Start Date: ASAP

Main duties:

• Payments:
  • Payments to providers in the main ASC team.
  • Transactional invoice processing.
  • Analysing invoices to make sure that the commissioned hours matches.
  • Customer facing, answering client calls and responding to client email queries in relation to invoices.
  • Contacting house duty teams to query care plans.
  • Maintaining relationships with clients.
• Billing:
  • The council have a separate financial assessment team. This role will be raising the bill that goes out on the client side.
  • Billing runs (the beginning of every month).
  • Customer facing: taking phone calls/responding to email queries about changes in their bills.
  • On occasion raising credit against bills.

Essential Candidate Requirements:

• • Must have experience working in Accounts Payable and/or Accounts Receivable.
  • Must have strong Excel skills, including:
    • Pivot Tables
    • VLOOKUPs
    • SUMIF formulas
    • Conditional Formatting
    • Data analysis
  • Must have the ability to analyse large data sets and investigate discrepancies.
  • Must have strong customer service and communication skills.
  • Must have a hard working attitude with a willingness to learn and develop.
  • Must be strong users of excel (run pivots, analyse data sets (e.g. adult social care invoices, what was commissioned hours for that call vs care services delivered), SUMIF, VLOOKUPs, conditional formatting formula’s etc.)
  • Must be a hard worker with a willingness to learn.
  • It is not essential for candidates to have local government experience but is beneficial.
  • It is also not essential for candidates to be qualified or have specific adult social care experience.

Please note that neither Local Government nor Adult Social Care experience is essential for this position but would be beneficial.

The client will be interviewing candidates across Thursday 13th/Friday 14th therefore if you match the above criteria and are interested then please don't hesitate to reach out and send your CV or call me on (phone number removed).