Commissioning Officer - Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

Commissioning Officer - Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

About us at Hounslow

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Finance Operations - Client Unit as a Commissioning Lead - Accounts Payable (AP) & Accounts Receivable (AR). In this role, you'll be primarily working on improvements in the AP and AR processes. Working alongside our delivery partners exploring ideas for improving the services and will have the opportunity to develop your skills in some project management work.

About The Team You'll Be Working In

You will lead a dedicated service providing effective management and delivery of the Corporate services contract for Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable.

You will work closely with the delivery partner to ensure they provide a full range of high quality, professional and proactive Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable functions.

You will be reporting directly to the Head of Finance Operations and your role will also be to support him and deputise if the need arises.

About You

1. You will have the ability to communicate key messages effectively.
2. You will be comfortable using different types of IT with an appetite to learn new systems.
3. You will have customer focused approach with a helpful and cooperative attitude.
4. You will have the ability to shape, implement and develop the service providing professional and technical advice to residents, members, senior management, stakeholders and suppliers and deliver continuous improvement.
5. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with key financial controls in relation to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Paarthiban.Sriranjan@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 21st April 2025.