Accounting Officer

6 days ago


Brisbane, Australia Australian Retirement Trust Full time

**Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Finance and Tax team as an Accounting Officer. If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane, we’d love you to apply.**

**Why join us?**
- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

**About the role**

The Accounting Operations team is part of the Finance and Tax business unit and is responsible for transaction processing and related reconciliations associated with the Public Offer. There are three main operational areas of Accounting Operations:

- Daily member fund reconciliations which capture the daily interface transactions from the member record keeping system and process the payments to members.
- Daily member cashflow calculations and investing advice; and
- Daily suspense and bank account reconciliations.

This role will focus on member benefit payments and the associated transactional processing and investigation that is required. Communication with internal staff will be essential to identify transactions and ensure they are treated in the appropriate manner. You will also provide backup and assistance to other team members as necessary and during periods of leave.

Key aspects of the role include:

- Daily Reconciliation of EARS transactions and member balances to the general ledger.
- Daily benefit payments preparation and reconciliation.
- Adhering to strict deadlines when preparing the cashflow instruction to the custodian.
- General ledger reconciliations - investigate and liaise with administration areas to ensure member related transactions and adjustments are processed accurately.
- Member related reporting for monthly, quarterly and annual requirements.
- Operating as back up to other members of the Accounting Operations Team.
- Reviewing, updating and documenting procedures pertaining to functions performed.

This role is available as a 12-month opportunity.

**About you**

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- Relevant experience in a finance transactional processing role or able to demonstrate practical equivalent experience.
- Good systems capability, able to learn and understand new systems quickly.
- Proficient in Microsoft excel.

**About us**

Our 2.3 million members trust us to take care of almost $300 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.



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