Accounting Officer

**Date**:31 Oct 2024

**Location**: Osborne Park, WA, AU, 6017

**Company**:Silver Chain Group Limited

**Accounting Officer**
- Permanent, full-time opportunity
- Osborne Park location, parking available on-site
- 76 hours per fortnight - hybrid working arrangements

**The opportunity**

Silverchain are seeking an **Accounting Officer** to join the Group Finance team on a permanent full-time basis. This role will be responsible for effective, efficient and accurate bank reconciliation service and other accounting duties in an accurate and timely manner. The role will also be working to assist the business with financially related funding claims and regulatory reporting processes.

If you have a great attention to detail, are process driven and have a passion for Accounting then this just might be the perfect role for you.

**Key responsibilities**

The **major** accountabilities of this position are:

- Reconcile the main trading bank accounts daily ensuring that every general ledger cashbook transaction and bank statement transaction is either matched against each other or flagged for investigation.
- Reconcile the other bank, term deposits, investment and branch committee accounts weekly.
- Review and reconcile branch committee bank accounts quarterly.
- Investigate and correct unreconciled items daily.
- Prepare all necessary bank journals.
- Review all transactions appearing in the bank reconciliation process and work with systems support to automate as much of the process as possible.
- Provide monthly reporting including the month end bank reconciliations on the various bank accounts for review.
- Develop and maintain flowcharts, checklists and procedures that reflect current bank reconciliation practice.
- Maintain the Register of Banking Operators.
- Assist with accounting for and the reconciliation of profit and loss and balance sheet accounts to ensure financial record accuracy.
- Preparation and lodgement of Australian Bureau of Statistics forms.
- Assist in the process of funding claims and reconciliation of those claims.
- Assist with end-of-month and end-of-year processes.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and obtained the following qualifications:

- Well-developed communication (written, verbal and listening) and interpersonal skills to communicate to a large range of people and to effectively manage project outcomes.
- Demonstrated advanced computer literacy in word processing, spreadsheets and databases to create effective documentation and correspondence.
- Previous experience in a similar role to provide efficient, accurate and timely support, assistance and recommendations of the finance function.
- Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills to review analyse and make recommendations to assist with daily problems and troubleshooting.
- A formal professional/tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (or working towards) or relevant work experience it to assist business needs is required.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft D365 Finance & Operations System.
- Demonstrated experience with Prophix reporting.
- Demonstrated processing within industry related funding portals (i.e. Services Australia, Medicare, ACFR, etc).

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary + Super + the ability to salary package up to **$18,550.**:

- Comprehensive health and wellbeing resources and support.
- Exclusive fitness and health insurance discounts.
- Option to purchase an extra 2 weeks leave per calendar year.
- Paid parental leave of 12 weeks.
- 17% Leave Loading.
- Subsidised gym membership with participating gym partners.

**How to apply**

and if you would like to see a copy of the position description, please contact Silverchain at - 1300 650 803.

**About Silverchain Group**

For 130 years, Silverchain has been a leading provider of high-quality health and aged care in the homes and across Australia. It is our ambition to create a better home care system for all Australians.

Join our team of more than 5,800 staff, including corporate staff, nurses, doctors, allied health, care experts and a dedicated research and innovation division, operating as Silverchain, RDNS Silverchain and KinCare. We care for more than 140,000 clients across Australia. We’ll provide you with opportunities to help you develop and grow in your career, with training and education programs to help you achieve your goals.

We reserve the right to commence the recruitment process and extend or withdraw this advertisement prior to the closing date.