The
Finance team provides a range of accounting and other financial support services to the Agency in the
following areas:
Accounts
.
Issue of customer sales invoices and processing of credit notes,
. Providing
customers with monthly statements of account,
. Receipting of income and allocation
of cash to customer accounts,
. Credit control (recovery of debt owed to the
Agency),
. Payment of suppliers' invoices,
. Payment
of staff travel and subsistence and overtime,
. Management of dispatch mail
and courier arrangements,
. Arrangement of travel requests for managers and
staff,
. Management of Agency's stationery needs.
Finance
Management
· Monthly financial reporting to the Board
on year-to-date performance,
· Preparation/monitoring of OSNI's receipts,
capital and running cost budgets,
· Input into the Agency's Corporate and
Business Plan,
· Provision of accounting guidance to other Divisions,
·
Preparation of financial information within the Annual Report and Accounts,
·
Management of the Agency's financial systems,
· Control and reconciliation
of OSNI's bank account.
This area provides the costing
information throughout the Agency that will be used to control costs (efficiency), stabilise income
streams and to achieve financial self-sustainability, which are part of OSNI's corporate objectives.
