Finance Officer

at  Acuity Care Group

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE:

• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills.
• A working knowledge of how Local Authorities and CCG’s bill within the healthcare sector. (desirable)
• Previous experience of using Xero and People Planner. (desirable)

• Build and maintain relationships with funders, ensuring the payment process is streamlined, efficient, and delivers a high-quality service.
• Maintain a weekly log tracking the status of each client (billed, pending payment, or payment received) along with a cash receipt forecast.
• Match and allocate payments received to customer accounts.
• Resolve unallocated cash issues.
• Ensure remittances are received and stored for easy retrieval.
• Report on aged debt with detailed commentary and actions to resolve and reduce outstanding balances.
• Resolve bad debts by chasing payments from local authorities, CCGs, ICBs, and individuals.
• Conduct ad-hoc account reconciliations to ensure all invoiced amounts align with current payments from funding providers.
• Manage complex billing queries through to resolution and debt collection.
• Review invoices to ensure proper documentation is in place before payment.
• Perform invoice and general ledger data entry.
• Complete weekly payment runs in accordance with the payment schedule.
• Monitor mailboxes and action emails within the agreed SLA.
• Perform daily cash allocations and recover any overpayments as needed.
• Reconcile credit card and bank accounts.
• Generate purchase orders when necessary.
• Reconcile monthly statements.
• Process expenses in line with the company’s expense policy.
• Handle any other business tasks as required.