Family accounts and finance officer (canberra)

Location: Canberra, ACT

Employment Type: Full‐time

Employment Status: Ongoing

Start Date: negotiable

Extra benefits: Employee Assistance Program, School fee concessions, annual Staff Development Award

Trinity Christian School is an independent Preschool to Year 12 school where students develop spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally and physically through a wide range of learning experiences. We recognise the individual worth of each person and their responsibility to others. Trinity promotes staff excellence and values the benefit that our professional team bring to the school. Trinity offers all the professional advantages of a large and established organisation. However, our distinctive structure enables us to develop and support smaller caring communities of staff and families united by Christian vision, mission and values.

About the Role

This role of Family Accounts and Finance Officer is to support the day‐to‐day operations of the Business Services Unit across the Accounts Receivable and Finance working groups. This role is a generalist role within the Business Services Unit, which is a busy and skilled team that supports the financial and administration functions of the school. As the school outsources the management of parent fees, a substantial component of this position is to oversee that accurate and timely debtor information is prepared, managed and communicated to stakeholders. Further, the role will provide support as required for payroll, accounts payable and purchasing officer.

The role upholds the value of Christ‐centred education, whether engaging with external stakeholders or internally when working alongside peers and other areas of the school community.

This is a full time position, 48 weeks a year and 4 weeks annual leave. The Family Accounts and Finance Officer is responsible directly to the Finance Manager on a day‐to‐day basis and to the Business Manager. The Business Manager is responsible to the Principal.

This role is for immediate start.

Essential Criteria

• A thorough understanding and passion for Christian Education.
• Accounting/Finance qualifications at Certificate III or equivalent.
• Experience in managing debtors, budgets and general ledger accounts and administration support.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• High‐level administrative ability with an elevated level of accuracy and attention to detail, in particular data entry skills, and working to tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and positively within a team demonstrating flexibility and adaptability.
• High degree of professionalism, integrity and personal presentation and be highly motivated, reliable, loyal, and trustworthy.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of database management programs with a proven ability to learn new systems and procedures.
• Proficiency in various platforms such as Microsoft Office and Xero, Approval Max, DocuSign, TASS and Budgetly.
• Have a current WWVP Clearance or the ability to gain clearance before commencement of employment.