AP Officer

Kaizen Recruitment; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaizen Recruitment is seeking an Accounts Officer for a leading financial services client in Melbourne. This permanent, full-time role supports the Finance team and will start as soon as possible. You will help the Head of Finance deliver timely and accurate processing of financial transactions.

Key duties include payments processing, payable enquiries, reconciliations and month-end activities, with regular stakeholder communication. Strong Excel skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Accounts Payable.
• Ability to multi-task and perform in high-volume environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems.
• Intermediate Excel skills including VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables.

Responsibilities

• Timely and accurate administration and processing of payments.
• Assist with review, investigation and resolution of accounts payable enquiries.
• Maintain financial records and reconciliations.
• Deliver timely and accurate daily and month-end processes.
• Manage and respond to queries from stakeholders including business units and finance colleagues.
• Contact clients about transactions and invoices.

Skills

Accounts payable

Multi-tasking

Stakeholder management

Communication

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 Officer to join and support the Finance team. This is a permanent full-time position, 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).