Senior Transaction Analyst

Job Title: Senior Transactions Analyst

Salary: £35,000 pa

Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Department: Finance

Location: London/ Hybrid Working

We are currently working remotely due to the pandemic, but we’re planning for a return to hybrid working soon. We are working with our teams to plan this, and for most roles this will mean a mix of office based and remote working. Working life does not always have to be nine to five and we support flexible working wherever possible. Please contact our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.

About Us

The Health and Care Professions Council

is a UK-wide regulator, committed to delivering high quality, efficient regulation in order to protect the public. We regulate 15 professions, including paramedics, radiographers, occupational therapists, and biomedical scientists.

We regulate by:

• deciding what it takes to be a member of one of our professions;
• approving education programmes which will produce competent graduates who are safe to treat people;
• keeping an accurate register of people who are legally able to call themselves one of our 15 professions; and
• investigate when a professional isn’t meeting our expectations of safe practice and conduct.

The HCPC is full of talented and committed people with a shared purpose of protecting the public. And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the values by which we live and work: Fair, Compassionate, Inclusive, Enterprising.

About the role

Our aim is to be a high performing regulator which delivers forward-looking regulation underpinned by strong data, collaboration and compassion. Your role will be to maintain the integrity of HCPC’s balance sheet. To manage HCPC’s purchase ordering and accounts payable functions, ensuring expenditure on goods and services is properly recorded and paid when due. To manage the accounts receivable processes. To assist the HR department to manage the contracted-out payroll function, ensuring that employees are paid accurately and on time. To provide support to budget holders and employees on the purchase ordering system and payroll and other finance queries.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure purchase orders are raised correctly and invoices are matched to the correct purchase order.

• Support the management of the purchase ledger, including processing purchase invoices and processing payments.

• Responsible for the processing of all invoices and expenses claims. Ensuring they are correctly calculated, approved and coded. Ensure invoices and expense claims comply with the expense policies.

• To respond to queries and complaints from applicants / registrants relating to their financial transactions or records and deal with complex scenarios either by phone, email or letter.

• To support the Registration Department on financial transactions

• Responsible for the processing of Direct Debit amendments / cancellations and payments rejections from DDI and Epay processes.

• Responsible for the entry of cashbook items into the Accounting System nominal ledger and ensuring all cashbook items are posted correctly.

About you

• A proven track record of acting as change agent, working proactively in a collaborative and supportive way to make systems and financial change happen.
• Experience working in a financial environment with significant AP/AR experience with accounting software such as Sage or similar tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills, at all levels of the organisation.
• Able to challenge and influence decisions at all levels with an assertive and confident approach to managing conflict and gaining credibility quickly.
• A positive, proactive and curious mind-set with the experience to apply critical analysis and judgement when faced with challenges; ensuring these solutions are customer focused and balance the wider needs of the organisation.

This role is exciting, fast-moving and plays a key role in the continued success of the business. If you're passionate about systems and data and enjoy finance business partnering, where you can make a real difference, and can see the direct impact your contributions can bring to an organisation, then this role is for you.

About the department

Helping our colleagues grasp their potential, realise their ambitions and exceed expectations is what drives our Finance team. We work compassionately and collaboratively to create the ideal environment for our colleagues to be exceptional and to deliver the sort of experience our registrants both deserve and expect. Working as the trusted voice of Finance across the organisation, the team is encouraged to deliver innovative approaches with lasting impact.

What we offer

The people we work with are central to helping us achieve effective and efficient regulation and in return we offer our employees generous benefits. As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee schemes and benefits including:

- 30 days annual leave plus discretionary days at Christmas

- Interest free season ticket loan

- 24/7 Virtual GP

- Cycle to work scheme

- 7% employer contribution pension

- Employee discounts on gym membership and a broad range of retail outlets

- Flexible working and home working options

- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

- Virtual Wellbeing Centre

- Covid-19 compliance/safe, managed, working environment

Alongside our excellent employee benefits, we are committed to your ongoing learning and development to build your skills, experience, and career.

You can find out more about our benefits on our website

Closing Date: 9 February 2023 (All vacancies will close at 1pm)

Interview Date: TBC

Further information on this role is detailed in the job description and person specification.

HCPC's vision is to be recognised as an actively anti-discriminatory organisation that upholds and promotes best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion and an active ally for change. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the HCPC.

Our values underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer. In addition to the core competencies for this role, we will also assess you against our values during the selection process: Please refer to the HCPC Values and Behavioural Framework.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London

Application deadline: 09/02/2023