Apply: Finance Officer (Melbourne / Geelong)

Reference: BH-168958-1
About the company

Government agency tasked with making life easier, accessible, and equitable for thousands of individuals and families across Australia. Currently seeking a Finance Officer to join their busy team for a 6-months temporary assignment.


About the role

As a Finance Officer, you will be responsible for the financial management of the organisation, and the provision of insightful financial reporting to enable strategic decision making. In addition, your key duties are as follow:
  • Perform integrity of data and reconciliation of major supplier invoices and validating supplier invoice information against in-house records.
  • Process supplier invoices on purchase orders, liaising and managing dispute charges, obtaining credit notes from suppliers and preparing supplier statement reconciliations.
  • Assist with asset management, costing proposals and initiatives as required.
  • Draft a range of written material including business cases, reports, executive briefs and corporate documentation.
  • Establish, manage and provide financial management advice to internal and external stakeholders to improve the financial management and operations in the Agency.
  • Monitor and report  on the achievement of business outcomes, key performance indicators and quality assurance to assist local management to manage overall performance.
  • Undertake financial administration across the division’s cost centres and projects, including budgets, journals, quarterly analysis, forecasting, accruals, monitoring and reporting.
  • Undertake weekly, end of month and end of financial year SAP FI system rollover activities and provide assistance to users of SAP FI as required.


About you

To be successful in this role, you must have:

  • Previous experience in a Finance, Accounting, or other similar roles
  • Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
  • Experience in SAP Accounts Payable and SAP Essentials
  • Background working with a shared services provider
  • Sound understanding of government procurement and goods receipting process
  • Excellent stakeholder management and customer service skills


Benefits

  • 6-months casual temporary assignment
  • ASA start date pending clearances
  • Full-time hours, Monday to Friday
  • $55.24 per hour + super
  • Multiple locations available:
    • Sydney CBD, Melbourne VIC, Geelong VIC, Deakin ACT


*** Please note the successful candidate for the role must hold Australian Citizenship and be willing to complete federal police check ***


At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.

You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion
Company Background:

Chandler Macleod is a highly regarded and well established recruitment organisation, part of RGF Staffing and Recruit Holdings, the fourth largest staffing network in the world! We partner with over 3500 companies globally providing job hunters with endless opportunities to find and succeed in their work.

Chandler Macleod knows what it takes to recruit, select, and retain the best people. We’re in the business of understanding how people tick because we’ve been digging deep into people’s needs and motivations since 1959.

We uncover the ‘BestFit™’ for employers and job hunters alike by looking beyond the CV’s and JD’s. This allows us to match candidates to jobs that bring out their best and discover people that can make businesses boom.

We’re a team of flexible thinkers and detail obsessors, who believe that the right fit can lead to a happier life. Because when you really get people, you really open up a world of opportunity.

There are several brands that make up Chandler Macleod, these include our Staffing business, our Consulting business, our xPO Talent Solutions business and our Managed Services business.

You can learn more at our website: www.chandlermacleod.com

We are Chandler Macleod. We get people.

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