Finance Officer
Today, Australia
Job Description
We have an outstanding opportunity for a confident and experienced bookkeeper to join our Finance team.
We are mostly based in Yálla-birr-ang (Collingwood, Melbourne) and we welcome applications from all lands and backgrounds. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTIQA+) people.
About the role
We’re looking for someone with sound accounting experience to support our Financial Controller in carrying out the day-to-day financial operations.
Someone who is all about detail and order, who can keep the finance activities running smoothly, support the broader team and will help to further evolve our finance and accounting practices. As this is a new role, we’re looking for someone who has initiative and is comfortable suggesting changes that will improve our accuracy and efficiency.
You might have been supporting finance and accounting operations for a few years or be an experienced bookkeeping or accounting wiz looking for a great, impact-focused place to work.
Your days will be spent:
- Recording transactions such as incomings and outgoings and posting them to various accounts
- Reconciling reports to third-party records such as bank statements and online business platforms
- Producing various financial reports for key stakeholders
- Reconciling reports to third-party records such as bank statements and online business platforms
- Interacting with internal and external stakeholders to resolve accounts payable and other finance related issues and provide efficient and timely advice
- Managing leave requests and processing our fortnightly payroll
- Assisting our Financial Controller in the preparation of internal financial and management reports
Requirements
You will be able to demonstrate:
- 3+ years of experience in a similar role, with expertise in accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll
- Knowledge of relevant financial and employment guidelines and regulations
- Knowledge of financial reporting requirements, policies and procedures
- High level of proficiency in Excel as well as electronic records systems
- Experience using Xero, Google Workspace and Slack highly advantageous
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills in diagnosing issues, identifying and implementing effective solutions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to liaise well with all stakeholders
- You must be legally able to work in Australia
Benefits
Working at Today
We work on work with purpose. Our projects see us finding solutions to big, complex challenges around climate, care and communities.
Above all else, we strive to protect our team’s capacity for resilience and general well-being. This goes beyond our dog-friendly workplace and regular pub lunches as a team.
- We offer a compelling career framework and learning budget to support your growth
- Today is a truly flexible workplace, making space and valuing the other important parts of your life, including generous parental leave and your birthday off
- You are actively empowered to help shape the business, the work we do and the impact we create
- We have an open workplace culture that asks for everyone’s input and is constantly welcoming new ideas and ways of working
- You will work in close-knit, multi-disciplinary, self-managed project teams that make interesting, beautiful things that positively impact the community
- Everyone is equally talented and trusts each other to experiment, and suggest new ways to crack client problems, there is no hierarchy
- There are frequent and respected check-in sessionsdigitally or in personto form strong team bonds
- You will have the opportunity to develop skills on the job through collaborating with great minds on complex problems
- We aspire to create the perfect conditions for creatives to do their best work, work they are proud of, work that makes a difference
About Today
We are Australia’s most awarded social impact agency.
We use design and technology to make change happen at pace and at scale. In the last 12 months, we’ve designed and built Australia’s first online family violence intervention order, established a new approach to co-design for the Victorian mental health sector, built a peer-to-peer product that helps people learn Auslan, and launched a campaign to shift mainstream perceptions of climate changeplus many more.
Our practice is built on strong foundations of human-centred design and digital making. There are 60 of us, based most