Casual Finance Officer

• Finance and Business Services

• Broaden your career within one of QLD’s largest employers 

• Be part of an organisation with a meaningful purpose and impact

• Multiple casual opportunities available across campuses

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

We are seeking motivated, energetic, and organised Finance Officers to process a wide range of financial transactions in UQ's Finance and Business Services Division.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Provide efficient, consistent, and accurate delivery of a set of assigned Finance transactions services within the client portfolio.

• Undertake accurate and timely processing of accounts payable, invoicing, debtor, and credit management, and receipting for the business unit.

• Process finance transactions related to the registration, transfers, trade-ins, and disposals of assets, as well as accounting journals covering internal transactions, cash allocations, reimbursements etc.

• Maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders ensuring the delivery of high-quality Finance transactions services to meet client needs.

• Escalate complex issues, or sensitive client needs, associated with requests for transaction processing that require additional expertise to resolve and execute.

• Ensure compliance of all Finance transactions with governance protocols, ensuring that University policies and procedures, as well as legislative requirements, are followed and adopted appropriately in the client portfolio.

These are casual positions at HEW level 4, with an hourly rate in the range of $47.34 to $50.20, plus superannuation of 11%. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

While majority of our positions are based at our picturesque St Lucia campus, there may be further opportunities at both our Herston and Dutton Park Campus.

• Diploma qualifications in accounting, business, commerce, or a related field with relevant experience in transactions processing and/or equivalent combination of relevant training and professional experience.

• Ability to apply knowledge of finance systems, policies, and processes to a wide range of financial transactions to ensure accurate, timely and efficient transaction processing.

• Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with key stakeholders and clients ensuring service delivery meets key requirements.

• Experience working with enterprise technology and software solutions and systems.

• Ability to work effectively within a team environment, whilst taking full accountability for the efficient delivery of set tasks within agreed timeframes and to agreed service standards.

• Experience working in service delivery functions in complex stakeholder and policy environments.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits. 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Mrs Kristina Carmody, Financial Services Coordinator via *********@uq.edu.au. For application queries, please contact ******@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion.  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity, LGBTQIA+, cultural and/or linguistic, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, or people with a disability. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to ******@uq.edu.au.

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close 29 March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-37014).

Please note applications will be reviewed as received. Candidates may be interviewed prior to the job closing date. We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible. The University of Queensland reserves the right to close this application process early.

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