Finance Officer

**Introduction**: About us. A unique life requires a unique bank. Defence Bank is a member-owned bank that has been proudly serving the Defence Community for 48 years. With over 30 branches across Australia and our award-winning app, Defence Bank is where our members need us - anywhere, anytime. The bank provides financial products and services to the Australian Defence Force and its unique community, reinvesting profits for the benefit of our members. Our branch network and support office teams work collaboratively to offer tailored banking solutions that support the Defence Community throughout their banking journey. We are a leader in our sector and our people led, technology enabled environment, celebrates the individual talents, personalities, interests and needs of our people. **Description**: The opportunity. Reporting to the Financial Controller, this permanent position directly supports our purpose and ensures our members can count on us by accurately processing all tasks allocated to the Finance Processing Team, as well as providing support to the Finance Department. **This position is accountable for**: - The daily review and verification of all transactions that are processed to designated general ledger accounts within the core banking system and internal accounting package. - The daily processing of selected core banking member transactions which fall outside normal daily processing. - Reconciliation of transactions completed on third party systems. - Reconciliation of various general ledger accounts as allocated by the Senior Finance Officer and/or Financial Controller. - Preparation and lodgement of various monthly, quarterly and yearly returns with relevant third parties. - Contributing to the month-end accounting process. - End to end processing of accounts payable, ensuring the integrity of the information in the accounts payable system, ensuring that a correct tax invoice has been received, coding invoices according to type of expense, and ensuring all payments are appropriately authorised for payment. - Monitoring the Finance Processing inbox and ensuring that all enquiries and tasks are actioned in a prompt manner, in line with member and business expectations. - Maintaining relationships with CUSCAL, NAB and other third-party organisations that Defence Bank has dealings with. - Ensuring that accounting systems and processes are followed, implemented and maintained. - Initiating and recommending improvements to accounting systems and processes. **Skills and Experiences**: About you. You are an experienced professional with proven problem-solving skills and high attention to detail. You will be flexible in your approach and will ensure that key outcomes are achieved in accordance with set time frames. You will also use your initiative to identify opportunities for improvement. You will have 1 - 3 years’ experience working in a similar administration or finance role. **To be successful in this position, you will have**: - Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. - Strong IT skills, particularly Excel, and a good working knowledge of accounts payable and accounting systems. - A Bachelor degree in Accounting/ Finance or a related discipline. - The ability to learn and use finance systems. - The ability to work well within a team. - A professional approach and the ability to develop strong working relationships. - Strong analytical skills and ability to manage conflicting priorities. We count on you. And you can count on us. **We have a great range of employee benefits including**: - Corporate wardrobe allowance. - Savings and discounts across our range of products and services. - Ongoing professional development opportunities. - A "Thank you" day - each year our employees receive one additional day of paid leave. - Access to our internal "reward and recognition" platform - vouchers, discounts, e-cards and much more Interested? We'd like to hear from you. Click to apply.