Accounts Payable Officer

Kaizen Recruitment; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaizen Recruitment is seeking an Accounts Payable Officer for a 6-month temporary assignment in Melbourne, Australia. You will support the Head of Finance in delivering timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.

Your duties include payments processing, account reviews, reconciliations, and responding to stakeholder queries across business units and finance teams. Strong accuracy, communication, and Excel skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Accounts Payable.
• Ability to multi-task in a high-volume environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables.

Responsibilities

• Timely and accurate administration and processing of payments.
• Assisting with review, investigation and resolution of accounts payable transactional enquiries.
• Maintaining financial records and reconciliations.
• Delivery of timely and accurate daily and month-end processes.
• Managing and responding to queries from stakeholders including business units and senior finance staff.
• Contacting clients about transactions and invoices.

Skills

Accounts Payable experience

Multi-tasking

Communication

Stakeholder management

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Our client is a leading financial services business. Currently undergoing a peak period, they are looking for a dynamic Accounts Payable Officer to join and support the Finance team. This is a 6-month temporary assignment, starting as soon as possible.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the Head of the Finance function in delivering timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.

Your duties will include:

• Timely and accurate administration and processing of payments.
• Assisting with review, investigation and resolution of accounts. payabletransactional enquiries.
• Maintaining financial records and reconciliations.
• Delivery of timely and accurate daily and month-end processes.
• Managing and responding to queries from stakeholders including business units, senior finance staff and finance colleagues.
• Contacting clients about transactions and invoices.

Our client is a leading financial services business. Currently undergoing a peak period, they are looking for a dynamic Accounts Payable Officer to join and support the Finance team. This is a 6-month temporary assignment, starting as soon as possible.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the Head of the Finance function in delivering timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.

Your duties will include:

• Timely and accurate administration and processing of payments.
• Assisting with review, investigation and resolution of accounts. payabletransactional enquiries.
• Maintaining financial records and reconciliations.
• Delivery of timely and accurate daily and month-end processes.
• Managing and responding to queries from stakeholders including business units, senior finance staff and finance colleagues.
• Contacting clients about transactions and invoices.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Extensive experience in Accounts Payable.
• Ability to multi-task and perform in high volume environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability tocritically think and problem solve.
• Intermediate MS Office skills primarily Microsoft Excel (Vlookups and Pivot Tables).