As our Finance Officer you will:
• Monitor and management Accounts Payable (AP) team’s workload and proactively address risks/delays, respond to late payment reports including small business vendors and credit card queries.
• Investigate, respond and resolve AP queries efficiently and effectively.
• Assist Accounts Payable Team during peak processing times especially during month-end and year-end.
• Creation & documentation of AP processes and tools and providing relevant training to stakeholders.

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Job details

As our Finance Officer you will:
• Monitor and management Accounts Payable (AP) team's workload and proactively address risks/delays, respond to late payment reports including small business vendors and credit card queries.
• Investigate, respond and resolve AP queries efficiently and effectively.
• Assist Accounts Payable Team during peak processing times especially during month-end and year-end.
• Creation & documentation of AP processes and tools and providing relevant training to stakeholders.
• Maintain high levels of confidentiality and sensitivity in provision of services and display a willingness to plan and develop work schedules to meet critical financial and business deadlines
• Assisting Senior Management Accountants & the Manager Finance in preparing the NFAEP Program's annual budget.
• Assist with monitoring, analysing and evaluating revenue and expenditure of the NFAEP (including taking proactive corrective action when required) against budgets and providing variance commentaries.
• Assisting with month end processes including preparation of journals and accruals.
• Engage with procurement team regarding required purchase order variations or amendments.
• Contribute to finance team meetings and process improvement initiatives and ideas.
• Undertake procedures to maximise the accountability, efficiency and compliance with financial management policy, standards and practices including the internal controls self-assessment process. Proactively highlight internal controls weaknesses to the Manager Finance.
• Perform other ad hoc duties as required under the direction of the Manager Finance.

You may also have
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or relevant transferable experience would be desirable

Why join the department? (benefits)
The work we do is widespread and varied, but our people are united by an innate sense of purpose, and a passion to serve their fellow Queenslanders. Our people are talented, down-to-earth and resilient, and the work they do every day fills them with gratification and pride. This is what keeps them coming back.
Here are some other reasons why our people choose us:
• Have visible impact in your community, and directly contribute to making Queensland a better place to live.
• Flexible working options that encourage a healthy work-life balance.
• Salary sacrificing options and competitive superannuation.
• A variety of fantastic leave benefits, supported across the broader Queensland public sector.
• Access to confidential and free counselling for you and your immediate family members through our Employee Assistance Program.
• We are committed to preventing violence against women and are proud to be a White Ribbon accredited workplace.

Join us and help preserve and protect Queensland's biosecurity.
Visit www.daf.qld.gov.au to learn more about us and what we do.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

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• dpi-candidate-information-pack (PDF, 256KB)
  
  
  QLD-629702-24 Role Description.V2 (Word, 1.04MB)