Senior Finance Officer

• $81,928 to $88,710
• Ongoing, full-time
• Kelvin Grove

Who are we looking for?

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a Senior Finance Officer to join Finance Business Solutions, Chancellery Division.

The position ensures the delivery of an effective, professional and efficient payables focussed service and ensures the coordination of workload and management of day to day payables and payment activities ensuring support and assistance to the Accounts Payable Officers for the delivery of payables activities to both suppliers and staff across the university.

Real world impact

QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a ‘real world’ focus. We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they will need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.

About the Department

Within the Chancellery, Finance Business Solutions is responsible for a range of business functions to facilitate the ongoing financial and planning viability of the university in realising QUT’s strategic aims and objectives, whilst maintaining a customer centric approach when engaging with the university community, industry and government.

About the Chancellery Division

Chancellery Division is responsible for strategy, including Indigenous strategy, government relations and policy, assurance and risk, international, marketing and communications, and business development. The Chancellery Division is led by the Vice-Chancellor and President.

What you need to succeed

Your expertise and initiative, combined with your ability to work as an excellent team player will be vital to your success in this role.

You will demonstrate:

1. Completion of a degree in a related discipline with relevant work experience in financial administration or an equivalent combination of relevant experience, education and/or training.
2. Demonstrated high level of business acumen in a complex business financial environment with extensive experience in the coordination of accounts payable, reconciliations and complex database functionality.
3. High level leadership and demonstrated ability to supervise a small team that delivers a high standard of business outcomes in a busy and complex environment.
4. High-level written and verbal communication skills with the ability to quickly establish rapport and manage collaborative working relationships, engage with a diverse client group and work effectively in a high performing team.
5. Well-developed analytical and problem solving skills with demonstrated ability to gather and integrate information from a number of sources to enable accurate and strategic decision making.
6. Demonstrated understanding of financial knowledge to apply and provide accurate and concise advice on rules, regulations and processes in accounts payable and how they interact with the general ledger, accrual accounting, GST and fringe benefits tax.
7. Demonstrated ability to contribute to a culture that is committed to the continuous improvement and innovation of processes and services.

Careers at QUT

Our culture is vibrant, inspiring and challenging. It’s a world where like-minds come together with a commitment to making a real world difference, no matter what the area of expertise.

Beyond personal and professional fulfilment, a career at QUT brings a broad range of tangible benefits. QUT is a high quality and flexible organisation that is proud of its excellent employment conditions which include but are not limited to:

• Parental leave provisions
• Study support encompassing leave and financial assistance
• Comprehensive professional development
• Salary Packaging

Explore Life at QUT

Reference number: 221116

Term: Ongoing, full-time basis

Remuneration: $96,955 to $104,981 p.a (HEW6) (inclusive of $81,928 to $88,710 p.a, 17% superannuation and leave loading)

Location: Kelvin Grove

Job opens: 20-Oct-2022

Applications Close: 06-Nov-2022 at 11.30pm

Open to: Applicants who have ongoing full-time work rights in Australia. In support of our strategic priority of Indigenous Australian success, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

At QUT, our values reflect what we believe in, and what is important to us as an organisation. They capture our strengths, our distinctiveness and sit alongside the priorities outlined in our Blueprint 6, and guide our decisions and actions.

QUT aims to inspire and shape the future with talented students and staff from diverse communities , united by our core values of Ambition, Curiosity, Integrity, Inclusiveness, and Innovation.

If you’re curious, innovative, and ready to experience what a career at QUT can offer, we’re ready to meet you. You can find out more about this role and how to apply by clicking ‘Apply’ or the link below.

View the job details at: https://qut.nga.net.au/?jati=08764732-DD54-A78B-A6F4-C904433EDC95

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