Revenues Assistant


Company:	ESSENTIAL EMPLOYMENT LTD
Salary:	£13.26 to £13.26 an hour
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Flintshire, CH5 3FF
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	12 Aug 2026
Closing date:	11 Sept 2026

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Summary

Revenues Assistant needed in Flintshire £13.26ph PAYE - Reference: OR110312

• Administration, maintenance and supporting the development of all Revenues applications, including providing technical support to the wider Revenues service, collating financial and performance related information for the service.

• The role also forms part of the Revenues front line team with an emphasis on dealing with routine enquires from customers, making routine amendments to customer accounts using computerised database systems.

• Reference and index documents using the document management system to convert all incoming mail to electronic files. Adhere to and maintain quality control procedures to ensure consistency and accuracy. Maintain confidentiality when handling customers private information.

• Processing direct debits for council tax and business rates including setting up new direct debits, amending or cancelling existing instructions and dealing with unpaid directs in line with the Banks Automated Clearing Service (BACS) guidance.

• To prepare and verify basic transactional changes to Council Tax and Business Rates liability in order to ensure timely and accurate billing.

• Monitoring and allocating payments received to the appropriate accounting year to ensure payments are allocated to the correct balance.

• Customer contact provide initial guidance to customers over the telephone and via written communication on straight forward, non-contentious, queries.

• Create, maintain and improve all Revenues and Benefit system documentation.

• Liaise with front line service areas and software suppliers to identify and resolve issues both hardware and software, logging calls and providing information as appropriate and maintaining a register of all bulletins and guidance received.

• Develop and produce user defined ad hoc reports and schedule and run system reports, manipulating the output into usable and presentable formats.

• Responsible for running Revenues & Benefits system print jobs and liaising with Corporate IT to facilitate the timely production and printing of system generated documentation.

• Supporting the testing of system releases, identifying and resolving straight forward system problems and leading on the production of first drafts of user guidance notes.

• Collation of regular and ad hoc statistical and performance information and the production of reports to enable management to monitor the performance of the Revenues service.

• Maintaining, updating and creating documents, databases, spreadsheets and system functionality that supports and improves the service.

• Undertake regular reconciliations in respect of council tax and business rates liaising with relevant officers within Revenues & Benefits, Corporate Finance and other departments as appropriate to identify and correct anomalies, ensuring that all systems reconcile and documenting in full where tolerable discrepancies exist.

• Complete and submit purchase orders and prepare invoices for appropriate authorisation across

This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to katie@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared.

Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage.

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