Senior Student Finance Accounting Officer

Monash • Clayton, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Student Finance team as a Senior Student Finance Accounting Officer and play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of student fee operations. This position supports the delivery of reliable financial data, efficient administrative processes, and high-quality service to students and stakeholders, while working closely with internal teams and external partners across funding programs. The role involves reconciling student accounts, investigating discrepancies, ensuring data consistency across multiple systems, overseeing refund and sponsor transaction processing, maintaining general ledger and banking accounts, supporting audits, and analyzing financial data. Additionally, the officer will provide advice to students and staff, contribute to process improvements, and ensure compliance with relevant policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Genuine commitment to customer service
• Ability to explain complex information clearly
• Comfortable working with Excel or Google Sheets
• Ability to handle large data sets
• Ability to perform reconciliations
• Ability to identify trends with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills
• Sound judgement
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Willingness to learn and develop expertise in student finance systems and processes

Responsibilities

• Reconciling student accounts
• Investigating discrepancies
• Ensuring the accuracy of incoming payments, credits, refunds, and financial journals in line with policy and procedure
• Ensuring data consistency across multiple systems, including government and internal databases
• Overseeing the processing of refunds and sponsor transactions
• Maintaining and reconciling general ledger and banking accounts
• Supporting audits
• Analysing financial data to identify trends or issues
• Providing clear, timely advice to students and staff
• Contributing to continuous process improvements
• Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and financial procedures

Benefits

• 17% employer superannuation
• Inclusive, collaborative community
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Policies enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments, including supporting parents

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees