Finance Officer

We seek an enthusiastic and appropriately experienced individual to join our Financial Operational Team. Reporting to the Team Leader of Water Billing, this position needs your high level experience and skills to assist in coordinating water billing charges. Bring your finance and customer service skills to this dynamic role and rewrite the future with us. 

• Work in a dynamic and customer focused team
• Permanent full-time
• Balance your life with a 9 day fortnight 
• Hybrid work conditions - 2 days work from home and 3 days on site 
• Flexible work arrangement options are available

About the role

You will be responsible for providing an effective and efficient rates and revenue service for the Council and Community. Daily you will be resolving enquiries; making sure all statutory requirements are being met during resolution, preparing and maintaining revenue related activities and coordinating and prioritising workloads. 

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Certificate IV in Accounting, Business Administration or related field or demonstrated solid contemporary experience in a similar role ,combined with ongoing professional development
• Considerable experience in a similar financial role in a medium/large size organisation
• Demonstrated experience working in a highly regulated industry ensuring compliance with legislation, regulation, policy and procedure while operating efficiently
• Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to effectively communicate with a diverse range of internal and external customers
• Customer focused attitude with the ability to build and maintain quality relationships with staff and stakeholders
• Ability to work in a diverse and legislative driven environment with minimal supervision
• Strong attention to detail including the ability to navigate and maintain a database, data capture, management and integrity and assist with database submission and reporting
• Demonstrated basic level of experience with a variety of software packages.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position sits between $61.5K - $73.8K plus 11% superannuation
• This is a Permanent role.
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight.
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role. 
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building. 

Council will be creating an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check ups, a 'me day' to refresh you. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing *******@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

PLEASE NOTE: We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.