Accounts Payable Officer

Approach Consulting; Canberra; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Approach Consulting Pty is seeking an Accounts Payable Officer in Canberra to manage a high-volume AP function. You will process invoices, run payments, reconcile ledgers, and coordinate with budget holders to ensure timely approvals and accurate coding.

You will be the go-to person for supplier enquiries, maintaining strong relationships and ensuring smooth processes across the business. This full-time role offers office-based, standard hours in Canberra.

Qualifications

• Proven Accounts Payable experience in a high-volume environment.
• Excellent communication skills with suppliers and senior staff.
• Strong relationship-building across a business.
• Attention to detail and ability to stay organized during workload spikes.
• Solid working knowledge of ERP/accounting system and Excel.
• Proactive, ownership-minded approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Processing a high volume of supplier invoices accurately and on time.
• Running payment runs and keeping the creditors ledger clean.
• Reconciling supplier statements and clearing queries and discrepancies.
• Working with budget holders and other internal teams to get approvals moving and coding right.
• Being the first point of contact for supplier enquiries.
• Keeping AP processes tight and flagging where they can be improved.

Skills

Accounts Payable experience

High-volume environment

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

ERP or accounting system

Excel

Proactive ownership

Tools

Excel

ERP system

Job description

Accounts Payable Officer

Canberra | Full time

The role

Invoices come in fast here. This is a high-volume AP seat, and the person in it keeps everything moving: accurate, on time, and without suppliers or internal teams chasing.

You’ll be the go-to for both. Suppliers need to know their payment is sorted. Staff across the business need answers when something’s stuck. You’ll handle both with a straight, helpful conversation rather than a runaround.

What you’ll be doing

• Processing a high volume of supplier invoices accurately and on time
• Running payment runs and keeping the creditors ledger clean
• Reconciling supplier statements and clearing queries and discrepancies
• Working with budget holders and other internal teams to get approvals moving and coding right
• Being the first point of contact for supplier enquiries
• Keeping AP processes tight and flagging where they can be improved

What you’ll bring

• Proven Accounts Payable experience in a high-volume environment
• Excellent communication skills. You’re confident picking up the phone, and you can deal with senior stakeholders as comfortably as suppliers
• A natural instinct for building relationships across a business
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to stay organised when the workload spikes
• Solid working knowledge of an ERP or accounting system and Excel
• A proactive, ownership-minded approach. You see a problem, you fix it

Why this one

• Permanent full-time role, Monday to Friday office hours
• Canberra-based commercial business where AP is valued, not treated as an afterthought
• Real exposure to people across the business, not just a desk and a screen