Posted 12 days ago
Description
About The Role
The Senior Finance Officer will join the finance administration team of a well-established national group with a large multi-entity footprint, based in their Melbourne CBD head office. This is a permanent full-time position reporting to the Finance Manager.
The Senior Finance Officer will be responsible for high-volume cash and bank reconciliations across multiple entities, weekly payment runs, and monthly balance sheet reconciliations, playing a key role in keeping the group's transactional finance function running accurately and on time.
Role & Responsibilities
- Complete bank account reconciliations across multiple bank accounts and entities, and prepare cash at bank, cash in transit and cash clearing journals on a weekly basis
- Prepare weekly cash clearing reconciliations, investigating and resolving systemic variances and uncleared items in a timely manner
- Input and load weekly pay runs into online banking portals and prepare daily payment runs for the Group
- Prepare and investigate monthly balance sheet reconciliations across clearing, bank, and cash holding accounts
- Prepare weekly cash variance reports and review monthly reconciliations collated from a large national site network
- Collaborate with the accounts receivable team on debtor reconciliations across the Group
- Review and input weekly petty cash receipts, and allocate and communicate receipts to the relevant teams in a timely manner
- Assist with troubleshooting automated revenue data imports, support external audits, and contribute to ad hoc finance projects as directed
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years' experience in a similar cash settlement / financial reconciliation role within a high-transaction, multi-entity environment
- Familiarity with POS systems and reconciliation processes, including preparing cash clearing reconciliations and resolving variances as they arise
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Ability to adapt quickly to new accounting applications and systems
- Strong communication and organisational skills with high attention to detail
- Initiative, drive, and a positive, flexible approach to work
- Willingness to support the broader head office finance team
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