Description:
The Accounts Payable Officer is responsible for the efficient and accurate execution of the accounts payable function with the Finance Team.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily processing of supplier’s invoices and credit notes
- Liaising with internal and external parties regarding invoice processing disputes and payment queries
- Supplier statement reconciliation
- Maintaining the Accounts Payable email inbox and resolving supplier’s queries
- Answering supplier’s telephone queries
- Maintaining accurate records and information
- Implementing new approaches and processes to meet the needs of our business
- Comply with all WHS procedures ensuring that team members including volunteers and contractors abide by all relevant health and safety procedures
- Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviours and report all accidents, incidents or near misses immediately.
Personal Attributes
- Mature attitude and able to work autonomously
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good data entry speed processing a minimum of 100 invoices per day
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Be a team player
- Adaptability to change.
Key Skills
- Cultivate partnerships: Builds respectful and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Adapts style to communicate and influence effectively
- Adapt and learn: Actively learn through self-reflection, asks for feedback and tries new thing
- Manages own wellbeing and demonstrates resilience when faced with challenges
- Embrace accountability: Accepts responsibility for own behaviour, action and results
- Empower others: Provides feedback and suggestions to other team members to support them to deliver better results
- Exercise judgement: Makes sound and timely decisions about day-to-day issues, based on gathered facts, escalating as appropriate
- Deliver outcomes: Sets and upholds high standards of performance and contributes to the achievements of the team
- Shape strategy: Demonstrates an understanding of organisation and how their role fits in the bigger picture
- Lead transformation: Flexible, responsive and positive to change.
Required Experience
- Experience in executing and maintaining accounts payable processing function
- Experienced in administration support and data entry with great attention to detail
- Experienced in leading, managing and developing people
- Operational service delivery experience in a customer centred environment, such as a contact centre
- Experienced in solving problems and driving improvements and performance.
Qualifications/Requirements - Mandatory
- Diploma in Business (Office Administration)
- We adhere to the National Principles for Child Safety and require all team members to be committed to child safety and wellbeing. Our induction and training will provide you an understanding of these principles, including having an understanding of children’s developmental needs and culturally safe practices.
- Hold or have the ability to obtain a current Working with Children Check.
Qualifications/ Requirements – Preferred but not essential
- Hold and maintain a valid Drivers licence.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice Citation and be a recognised Disability Confident Company.
At MAX, we value diversity – in the backgrounds, ideas, work styles and perspectives of our team. We strongly encourage people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply.
We adhere to the National Principles for Child Safety and require all team members to be committed to child safety and well-being. Our induction and training will provide you with these principles, including having an understanding of children's developmental needs and culturally safe practices.
Next steps
If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process for reasons of equal opportunity, please call a member of our Recruitment Team on 07 3727 1306 or email max.recruit@maxsolutions.com.au before you submit your application.