Your Role:
Working within a collaborative finance team, you'll be responsible for the end-to-end processing of invoices, creditor payments, reconciliations, and reporting, ensuring compliance with financial policies, procedures and delegations at all times. This role suits someone who thrives in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment and takes pride in accuracy and process improvement.
Your Responsibilities:
- Ensure invoices correctly comply with GST and withholding requirements in accordance with financial management standards and authorised by the appropriate delegates
- Process invoices for payment in accordance with internal controls and financial policies and procedures, investigating any non-compliances
- Ensure creditors are paid in a timely manner and produce urgent cheques as required by internal stakeholders
- Enter cheque and travel request claims into the business system and offset them in the finance system when paid
- Prepare monthly accruals, and maintain and generate recurring and prepayment documents
- Prepare monthly reconciliations and ensure discrepancies are investigated in a timely manner
- Investigate overpayments to suppliers and follow up on recovery of overpayments
- Review corporate card documentation, ensuring correct coding, analysing expenditure, and ensuring compliance with process and policy
- Liaise with creditors regarding invoices as required, directing other enquiries to the correct personnel
- Prepare reports for management as required
- Develop and maintain work instructions for the role
- Assist staff to action invoices accurately and in a timely manner in the record management system, following up any discrepancies identified
- Demonstrated experience using SAP ECC6 (essential)
- Prior experience within a government or public sector finance environment (highly desirable)
- Strong understanding of accounts payable processes, GST and withholding tax requirements
- High attention to detail and a methodical approach to reconciliations and compliance
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, team-oriented approach
- Availability to start immediately
