Finance Officer

Appoint; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Appoint is seeking an experienced Finance Officer to join the Newstead-based finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role covers accounts payable, accounts receivable, journals, accruals, and expense management with a focus on accuracy, compliance and strong financial controls.

You will support day‑to‑day processing, work with internal and external stakeholders, and help maintain governance over revenue, expenditure, and credit card activities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with accounts payable and receivable processes.
• Experience with journals, accruals and journal coding.
• Ability to work within established financial policies and controls.

Responsibilities

• Process supplier invoices through the AP system and ensure timely payments.
• Manage and reconcile accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Prepare and post journals and accruals with accurate coding.
• Monitor overdue customer payments and follow up as required.
• Respond to AP/AR queries from internal/external stakeholders.
• Review revenue and AR processes for efficiencies and improvements.
• Ensure transactions from integrated systems are recorded in AR.
• Manage employee expenses and corporate credit cards.
• Maintain finance registers, reports and documentation.
• Support governance through regular review of revenue, expenses and travel claims.

Skills

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Journals

Accruals

Journal coding

Expense management

Credit card management

Financial controls

Job description

The Company

Our client is a well-established national organisation operating within a highly regulated environment and delivering essential services across Australia. With a strong focus on governance, collaboration and continuous improvement, they offer a professional and supportive working environment with established systems and processes.

An opportunity is now available for an experienced Finance Officer to join their Newstead-based finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

The Appointment

Working as a Finance Officer, you will contribute to the effective functioning of the finance team, providing hands‑on support across accounts payable, accounts receivable, journals, accruals, expense management and credit card administration.

This is a varied transactional finance position requiring someone who can confidently manage day‑to‑day processing while maintaining accuracy, compliance and strong financial controls.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Processing supplier invoices through the automated accounts payable system and ensuring payments are completed within required timeframes.
• Managing and reconciling accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Preparing and processing journals and accruals, including accurate journal coding.
• Monitoring outstanding customer accounts and following up payments as required.
• Responding to accounts payable and receivable queries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Reviewing revenue and accounts receivable processes to identify efficiencies and improvements.
• Ensuring transactions from integrated systems are correctly recorded within the Accounts Receivable system.
• Managing employee expense processes and maintaining expense management system users.
• Managing corporate credit cards, including applications, cancellations and transaction reconciliations.
• Maintaining finance registers, reports and supporting documentation.
• Supporting strong financial governance through regular review of revenue, expenditure, credit cards, expenses and travel claims.

The Appointee

To be successful, you will be an experienced Finance Officer, Accounts Officer or Finance Administrator with a solid transactional finance background.

Importantly, you must have demonstrated hands‑on experience with:

• Accounts payable
• Journals and journal processing
• Accruals
• Journal coding
• Accounts receivable and reconciliations
• Expense and credit card management
• Working within established financial policies, procedures and controls

You will have excellent attention to detail, strong organisational skills and the ability to confidently manage competing priorities and deadlines. Comfortable working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, you will be proactive in resolving queries and investigating discrepancies.

Above all, you will be a collaborative and dependable team member who can quickly become productive and add value throughout this 12-month fixed-term contract.