Senior Procure to Pay Officer. Permanent Full Time - Location Flexible

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

The Senior Shared Services Finance Officer is a pivotal leadership position within our Shared Services team. Working closely with key internal stakeholders and teams, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that requests for goods and services along with invoice processing including payment processing adhere to organisational policies, procedures, timetables and deadlines such that payments of vendor invoices are processed timely and accurately, and fully comply with all relevant statutory and taxation requirements.

As the Senior Shared Services Finance Officer, you will collaborate with the Procure to Pay Lead, overseeing a large team of Shared Services Finance Officers. Your role will require a heightened level of transactional finance knowledge and broader finance expertise to facilitate the timely and accurate execution of transactional finance functions.

This a permanent full time role. This role offers the flexibility to work from your preferred location, whether that is your home or our LWB offices. There will be occasions when you will be expected to work from the office. 

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, coach, support, motivate and develop a team of 16 Shared Services Finance Officers to enable them to deliver to the best of their ability
• Build a high performing team by facilitating workshops, maintaining one to one meetings with staff and leading team meetings
• Manage high volume of transactional workloads including invoice processing and payments to carers and contractors
• Develop and maintain documentation and user guides and other training manuals for Procure to payment processes
• Analyse procure to payment transactions to identify variations to established processes, recommend improvement and implement approved actions
• Be the escalation point for customer complaints
• Prepare of monthly, yearly and other periodic accounting reconciliations
• Assist in developing effective processes within Finance Transactional Services
• Establish and undertake compliance protocols to ensure accurate information
• Develop, implement and monitor Finance Transactional Services service level agreements
• Actively contribute to managing change and support the implementation of organisational projects, strategies and initiatives

Skills & Experience 

• Degree level qualifications in Business, Accounting or similar, or demonstrated equivalent experience a high volume, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated experience in leading a high performing team Demonstrated experience in procurement to pay functions such as accounts payable or procurement within a high volume, dynamic environment
• Demonstrated experience in managing competing priorities and to deliver outcomes within agreed timeframes and quality standards
• Demonstrated experience in leading continuous improvement initiatives
• The ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders and implement change to wide group of stakeholders
• High level communication skills with an attention to detail and accuracy
• Intermediate Excel skills and experience using a computerised accounting system

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).
     
Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Permanent full time role, location flexible.
• Excellent tax benefits and monthly rostered days off

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact recruitment@lwb.org.au.

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 14th April 2024.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA