Apply: Finance Officer - General Ledgers

Title: Finance Officer
Rate: $42 + super per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 Months
WFH: Yes - office days Thursday and Friday 

Location: Sydney,


One of Sydney's top 5 Universities are looking for an Senior Communication Specialist to join their team on a 6 Month contract.
The Finance Officer provides a range of financial accounting and transactional support services to the Faculty clients in compliance with Financial, Procurement and all other University policies and procedures and supports the continuous improvement and integration of new Financial systems and processes to ensure effective and efficient service.

This position will support a customer oriented, self-directing and supportive team culture to proactively support the clients with their needs through delivering a high quality and efficient service. All team members are expected to nurture positive, fair, and balanced work culture within the team and support other team members to achieve the overall team goals.


Key accountabilities

• Provide accounting and other transactional support to Faculties, University Schools and across University portfolios as required in a timely and customer focused manner.
• Provide support for a range of financial transactional services managed by the consolidated finance officer pool.
• Prepare and deliver ad hoc transactional reporting, maintain accurate documentation, registers and correspondence as requested for specific financial activities or initiatives.
• Resolve financial transactional queries from clients.
• Prepare timely and accurate corrections to financial records if required.
• Work with Financial Services colleagues as required to ensure effective and customer focused delivery to resolve all queries.
• Provide backup to other Financial Services team members as required to ensure effective and customer focused delivery of financial services across the University.
• Actively work with Finance Business Process Owner teams such as AR, AP, Grants Funding and Financial Control to help resolve specific business issues as required, highlight any process gaps and improvements.
• Experience with completing a range of financial transactions, including processing invoices, payments, creating accounts and maintaining records
• System: Ariba 
• General Ledger experience - Main area 

Essential Requirements

• Use a range of online systems including ServiceNow Case Management, PeopleSoft, Power BI for maintaining service information and delivery of service.
• A degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or Commerce, or an equivalent combination of relevant training and experience in using financial systems for processing financial transactions and reporting in a large-scale organisation
• Customer service experience; with a demonstrable customer-focused ethic
• Experience in using financial systems for processing and reporting – not necessarily in the University sector but preferably in large scale organisations

 
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