Billing Officer

Oakham

£26,000 (DOE)

Are you a confident and enthusiastic Billing Officer looking for a new role within a supportive and inclusive working environment?

Coulter Elite Resourcing are currently recruiting for a Billing Officer to work with one of their market leading clients for a position based in Oakham.

This Billing Officer position is suited to individuals who are highly diligent at record keeping, have strong customer service acumen and have a background within an accounts-based position.

The successful candidate will produce bills, monitor and reconcile accounts as well as maintain and reconcile all information relating to company income.

Principle Responsibilities for the Billing Officer:

• Administration of the fees ledger
• Administration of the recoverables accounts
• Maintain records of income and costs for trips.
• Issue Financial Circumstances forms.
• Liaise with Admissions Department to ensure all expected applications are received
• Maintain records of awards and provide reports for internal purposes, as well as for auditors and the Charity Commission
• Monitoring and collection of outstanding debt
• Liaison with external funding agencies
• Liaison with solicitors and other debt collection agencies
• Administration of the Fees in Advance Scheme
• Prepare prepayment quotations promptly
• Maintain accounting records, including annual summaries for audit and statutory accounts
• Offset amounts and discounts against fees when due.
• Administration of Fees Remission Scheme
• Assistance with budgetary process
• Assistance with Management Accounts
• Reporting to Senior Leadership Team
• Reporting on debt collection, status of outstanding debts and progress made

Person Specification for the Billing Officer:

• A dynamic team player with a proactive and willing attitude.
• Good keyboard skills and knowledge of Microsoft packages - Excel especially
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail in work produced.
• Customer care to the highest standard.
• Evidence of a 'can-do' attitude and good work ethic. Experience of working in a team - demonstrates skills of team player - supportive, reliable and flexible.
• Exceptionally organised with the ability to multi-task and be hands on.
• Desire to undertake training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development and further training.

This is a full-time permanent Billing Officer position working 8.30am - 5pm. You will be working alongside a close-knit, outgoing and friendly accounts team. If you are willing to learn, have great attention to detail and wish to pursue a career within accounts this one is for you!

If this Billing Officer position sounds like you, then please forward your CV to Simon Pawsey at Coulter Elite Resourcing.