Payments Assistant

Payments Assistant 10624 Temporary Contract 12 Months 37 hours per week 25989 to 26403 per annum (Scale D) County Hall

We are seeking to recruit a Payment Assistant on a full time temporary basis within the Payments Team Finance Exchequer Services. The post would involve a combination of working in office and remote working.

The Payments Service is a shared service and has responsibility for leading on the Payments Policy and Strategy for the authority. The Payments Service is responsible for making in the region of 450000 payments per year to over 20000 suppliers via numerous business systems.

The role ofPayment Assistant is to ensure payments are made accurately timely and according to contractual arrangements. Undertaking appropriate research and communications to ensure correct addition the role is required to resolve complex supplier and departmental queries.

Ideally you will have experience in a Finance environment and will be confident in dealing with customer/supplier queries both pro-actively and promptly.

Knowledge of Financial Systems is preferred and to succeed in this role you must be a team player with the ability to prioritise your workload and work to deadlines. You must have excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure.

For an informal discussion please contact Christopher Piff Payments Officer ator

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary

• Generous holiday entitlement

• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service

• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time part time remote and hybrid working dependent on your job role and business need.

• Financial benefits such as:

  • Norfolk Rewardsour employee discounts programme which helps yousave money on almost anything from everyday groceries and clothes to holidays new technology gym membership trips to the cinema and days out.

  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers

  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)

  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work

  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution life assurance death in service payments and dependants pensions

  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)

  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together make the most of our workspaces enjoy a healthy work-life balance and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work with hybrid working a key feature formany roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Before you apply we recommend reading the full Job description and person specification to help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on ourTerms and Conditionshere.

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Redeployment closing date: 4 June 2026 23:59

All other applicants closing date: 18 June 2026 23:59