Senior Accounts Receivable Officer

Perigon Group; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Perigon Group is seeking an experienced Senior AR Officer for our client in the aged care sector in New South Wales. You will own the revenue cycle from billing through to cash collection, ensuring compliance with funding rules and maintaining robust controls.

You will mentor the AR team, drive process improvements, and partner with operations to resolve variances and optimize cash flow. This is a 6-month contract with potential to convert to permanent based on performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on aged care billing and receivables with funding knowledge.
• AR experience incl. invoicing, claims, reconciliations and collections.
• Clear communication and stakeholder relationships in Finance/Operations.

Responsibilities

• Run full aged care billing cycle ensuring correct rates and funding rules.
• Analyse activity and funding data to detect errors and missed revenue.
• Oversee funding claims from lodgement to receipt and follow up rejections.
• Mentor AR team and maintain strong controls.
• Reconcile debtors, funding receipts and month-end processes.
• Identify recurring issues and drive system/automation improvements.
• Keep billing documentation audit-ready and compliant.

Skills

Aged care billing

Receivables

Invoicing

Collections

Communication

Education

Accounting/Bookkeeping qualification

Job description

The Organisation

Our client is an established organisation in the aged care sector, delivering services across a broad client base. They are seeking an experienced Senior AR Officer with strong aged care billing knowledge to take ownership of billing, claims and collections on a 6 month contract with potential to go permanent.

The Role

Reporting to the Finance team, you will own the aged care revenue cycle from billing through to cash collection, protecting revenue and tightening processes along the way.

• Running the full aged care billing cycle, making sure invoices reflect the correct rates, agreements and funding rules
• Analysing service activity and funding data to pick up errors, exceptions and missed revenue before they become problems
• Overseeing funding claims from lodgement to receipt, and following up rejections, short payments and unpaid claims
• Getting to the bottom of tricky billing and payment variances, partnering with operations to fix them
• Keeping on top of the debtors ledger and aged debt, and pushing older balances to resolution
• Reconciling debtor accounts and funding receipts so balances are accurate and well supported
• Contributing to month-end through receivables reconciliations, debtor reporting and billing adjustments
• Spotting patterns in recurring issues and putting fixes in place, including system and automation improvements
• Keeping billing documentation audit-ready and compliant with funding obligations
• Mentoring the wider AR team and helping maintain strong controls

About You

• Hands-on aged care billing and receivables background, with a solid grasp of how aged care funding works
• Well-rounded AR experience covering invoicing, claims, reconciliations and collections
• Clear communicator who builds good working relationships with finance and operations
• Qualification in Accounting, Bookkeeping, Finance or Business (Cert IV or Diploma) desirable