Senior Accounts Payable Officer

1 day ago

North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Inghams Group Limited Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Posted:

27/10/2025

Closing Date:

27/11/2025

Job Type:

Permanent - Full Time

Location:

NSW - North Ryde

Job Category:

Finance, Risk & Procurement

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

Your opportunity to join our Finance team in North Ryde

Reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager this is a senior, hands-on role responsible for the maintenance and management of vendor invoices across Inghams' ANZ operations. As 2IC to the AP Manager, this role combines operational excellence with leadership responsibilities, ensuring high-volume processing is delivered accurately and on time.

The role requires strong technical accounting skills, the ability to manage team members and drive process improvements, excellent stakeholder management across finance and operations teams and outstanding service delivery to external vendors.

Key responsibilities:

  • Provide second-line support and mentoring to AP Officer(s), ensuring consistent quality standards and professional development
  • Oversee high-volume vendor invoice processing and payment accuracy with minimal supervision
  • Problem solve independently on complex queries and escalate appropriately to the AP Manager
  • Maintain exceptional data entry accuracy across all AP transactions
  • Demonstrate excellent communication skills with internal and external stakeholders
  • Manage time effectively with high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment
  • Deal with complex queries and manage through to resolution
  • Support process improvement initiatives and best practice implementation
  • Provide coverage for the AP Manager when required
  • Assist with training and onboarding of new AP team members

Key requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance (preferable but not mandatory)
  • Minimum 5+ years in an FMCG environment with strong focus on supporting the AP function across the business
  • Proven experience in a senior or supervisory AP role with leadership capability and experience mentoring/coaching team members
  • Proven experience building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel skills
  • Experience dealing with large volume transactions
  • Demonstrated experience with ERP systems (preferably SAP or similar)
  • Experience in process improvement and systems optimization
  • Positive work ethic and ability to work effectively in a team-based environment, supporting the wider team with process improvement and best practice
  • Ability to provide clear and timely communications to all stakeholders on issues with recommendations and action plans
  • Strong attention to detail with ability to manage competing priorities
  • Proactive problem-solving approach with ability to escalate appropriately
  • Initiative and able to work with minimal supervision

We're looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that's…Always Good

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