South East Water Corporation Hiring for Finance and Administration Officer Job at Frankston Full Time

About us

Iota is a wholly owned subsidiary of South East Water, a government-owned metropolitan water utility in Melbourne, renowned for its innovations in smart technology. As South East Water goes about its business, Iota adds value by harnessing, commercialising and sharing its technology and innovations that really make a difference. Iota also manages Priority Plumbing on South East Water’s behalf. Priority Plumbing delivers industrial and residential plumbing services for South East Water and its customers.

What you’ll be doing

This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to broaden their experience by working across both finance and operations. This role, reporting to the Senior Accountant is responsible for providing operational accounting support to Iota’s finance team and will support the Operations Director with project administration as required and basic IT systems related support.

In this role, you will:

• Assist the Senior Accountant to prepare Iota’s internal and external month end reporting and supporting statutory obligations relating to taxation and financial reporting.
• Contribute to preparing work papers and reconciliations to ensure the integrity of internal transactions and controls.
• Process billing of customers and invoices, raise and amend purchase orders, process vendor and customer return approvals and inventory adjustments.
• Provide information and accounting support to the Iota finance team, Iota management team and the South East Water finance team in relation to Iota’s finances.
• Maintain computerised records management system for Iota by creating, storing, retrieving and archiving files to ensure compliance with records management policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Contribute to the provision of timely and accurate information for reports, submissions and general advice.
• Assist with external and internal audit information requests.
• Assist with the bi-annual stocktake.
• Review and propose changes to processes to streamline team activities and take advantage of available technology.
• Ensure team processes are well documented and up to date.
• Assist the Operations Director with project administration and basic IT systems related support.

What we need from you

The Finance and Administration Officer will be focused on outcomes, be an excellent problem solver and strong communicator.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A Tertiary Accounting qualification.

• CPA or CA qualification or working towards.
• Intermediate Computer Usage – intermediate Microsoft Excel skills including creating formulas, sorting, filtering, pivot tables and v-lookups; intermediate Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. Salesforce experience is highly regarded.
• The ability to communicate well and work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Problem solving skills to quickly resolve business queries with employees across the business, using established business processes and accounting principles, where applicable.
• The ability to successfully deliver concurrent tasks and meet deadlines whilst maintaining accuracy and integrity of financial data and information.
• Legislative knowledge and can apply applicable tax law and accounting standards to business processes and reports.
• A willingness to embrace new technologies to improve business processes and maintain a culture of continuous improvement.

Our culture

We’re committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that represents the community we serve. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, people with disability and from culturally diverse backgrounds.

We believe great teams do great work. We are ambitious, we work hard and we back one another. We embrace diversity, we challenge ourselves and demand the best, because that’s what our colleagues, customers and communities deserve. We provide flexible opportunities to work, learn and grow, supporting, encouraging and inspiring you every day.

As an employer of authorised workers, we ultimately need for all of our employees to be able to freely and safely enter any of our workplaces and sites. It’s important for the safety of our people and our customers that our workforce is fully vaccinated.

Want to know more?

Visit iota.net.au and southeastwater.com.au to learn more about us and how we serve our customers.

Position description

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Level 2

All applications must be submitted by no later than Sunday 26 June 2022.

Job Type: Full-time