Accounts Receivable Officer

We are looking for an Accounts Receivable Officer to join our Finance team in either our Mulgrave office in Melbourne or Salisbury office in this critical role you will be working with an AR peer managing a portfolio of customers and reporting directly to the CFO based in Brisbane. For the right candidate the role is full time 38 hr work week with an opportunity to work from home 1 day per week.

You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the financial health of Fire & Safety Australia by ensuring the timely and accurate collection of outstanding accounts receivable. This position requires a structured approach and contribute to the improvement of our internal and external policies and systems when there are better ways to do business. Experience in collections using procurement portals such as Ariba and experience in the complexities with large national company collections will be beneficial to the role.

What Youll Do

• Maintain the debtor ledger ensuring customer accounts are up to date overdue amounts are followed up on and remittances reconciled in a timely manner.
• Employ effective debt collection techniques through both phone calls and email communication to customers to recover outstanding payments.
• Collaborate with the wider Finance team to develop and refine processes to ensure increased efficiency and accuracy.
• Support the Sales Team and other departments in the follow up of Customer POs to reduce the delay in payments.
• Understand and support the key KPIs of the role and the AR function including calls and response times
• End of Month Procedures manage full function debt collection and account receivable end of month procedures. Assist with end-of-month tasks and duties to meet reporting deadlines.
• Assist with other finance tasks on a as need basis which include banking and invoicing.

What Youll Bring

Fire and Safety Australia is a registered training organisation (RTO : 22250) and a national leader in the provision of emergency response and safety training.

As Australias leading provider of workplace safety training Fire & Safety Australia (FSA) has more than 18 years experience in providing on site medical and emergency response services. FSA are an inclusive organisation who :

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Please apply via seek or via the FSA website submitting your cover letter and CV to-

Kristy Corrie

People and Culture Lead

Fire and Safety Australia

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Journal Entry,Customer Service,Collection effort,A / R Management,Past due Account,General Ledger Accounting,Accounting,Excel,Payroll,Financial statement,Collection procedures,Customer Account,Delinquents Account,Direct Reports,Timely collections

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Finance

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1