Nottingham, United Kingdom

Business Support Assistant

 Job Description:

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Nottinghamshire to assist with the appointment of a Business Support Assistant, on a 3-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £12.18 - £15.29 per hour

Responsibilities:

  • Purchasing of goods and services from a wide variety of Vendors for teams across the County, raising purchase orders, confirming receipt, and liaising with requisitioners
  • Inputting on to the BMS/SAP system raising orders from teams within the council for a variety of goods/services that are required.
  • Resolving of queries that occur with orders, payments, contacting various departments/vendors to resolve.
  • Inputting on to excel spread sheet, payments that need to be processed for Travel claims.
  • Chasing for approval of invoices that have been received into payments.
  • Emailing for authorisation from requestor, uploading information /confirmation for audit trail, then to process on to payments to pay.
  • Resolving of issues, to avoid further delay of payments.

Required Abilities & Skills:

  • Accuracy, numeracy, and the ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure are essential requirements of the post along with excellent administrative clerical skills including good organisational skills using a methodical approach and working withing business support standards and processes.
  • You must be competent in the use of spreadsheets and databases, as data inputting is a key task you will be asked to complete.

Please note:

  • You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
  • You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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  Required Skills:

Discretion Pay Excel SAP Confirmation Spreadsheets Purchase Orders Purchasing Travel LTD Databases Payments Vendors Pressure Business