Full-Time | Level 4 | $84,739 - $98,574 per annum plus super. Salary within this range depends on your skills and experience.

The City of Nedlands is looking for an organised and detail-focused Finance Officer (Accounts Payable) to join our Financial Services team.

You will help manage the City’s accounts payable function, ensuring invoices, supplier payments and purchasing card transactions are processed accurately, efficiently and on time. If you enjoy working with numbers, systems and people, this role offers the opportunity to bring those interests together.

About the City

Just 7km from Perth CBD, the City of Nedlands offers the best of both worlds - leafy streets, riverside parks and a vibrant community. We're proud to deliver high-quality services that support a thriving, inclusive city.

About the Role

You will report to the Coordinator Accounting Services and manage the City’s accounts payable activities. Working closely with employees, suppliers and other stakeholders, you will support the efficient delivery of financial services.

You will join a collaborative team that values accuracy, customer service and continuous improvement. Your work will cover invoice and supplier payment processing, purchasing card transactions, reconciliations and reporting.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Manage creditor processing: collect, review and process invoices for weekly payment runs, ensure invoices and supplier payments are completed accurately and on time, and prepare and process one-off payments when required.
- Balance the accounts payable subsidiary ledger and prepare aged creditor reports.
- Prepare creditor schedules, payment listings and purchasing card reports for Council.
- Manage the City’s purchasing card processing, support cardholders with reconciliations, and ensure transactions comply with the City’s policies and procedures.
- Assist with refunds, journals, reconciliations and monthly financial reporting.
- Support year-end creditor accruals, audit work papers and liaison with the City’s auditors.
- Work with employees across the organisation to review costings and resolve accounts payable matters.
- Maintain payment delegations in the City’s records management system.
- Provide support across accounts receivable and payroll functions when required.

What You Bring

Must-haves

- Well-developed numerical skills, a sound understanding of accounting procedures, and knowledge and understanding of accrual accounting principles.




- Experience using integrated electronic operating system, with fast and accurate data-entry skills.
- Strong attention to detail, effective time management and organisational skills, and the ability to meet strict deadlines.
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills and customer service skills.
- The ability to work autonomously while contributing to a collaborative team environment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
- A completed or partially completed accounting qualification, Certificate IV, equivalent industry training, or significant relevant on-the-job experience.
- A current National Police Certificate, or the ability to obtain one.

Bonus Points For

- Experience working in accounts payable or a similar financial services role.
- Experience using TechnologyOne operating system.
- Knowledge of local government industry and financial services and accounting requirements.

Why Join Us?

- Five weeks of annual leave – because balance matters
- Paid parental leave – 12 weeks for primary carers, 2 weeks for partners
- Up to 14% superannuation and novated leasing options – more for your future
- Flexible working arrangements – we understand life happens
- Ongoing professional development – we'll back you to grow
- Employee wellbeing programs – including EAP, Fitness Passport and health initiatives

The City of Nedlands is situated just 7km from Perth and stretches from the banks of the beautiful Swan River to the edge of the Indian Ocean. A population of over 21,000 live in the suburbs Nedlands, Dalkeith, Mt Claremont, Swanbourne, Karrakatta, and parts of Floreat and Shenton Park. Information for new residents is available to help you settle in comfortably.

On 1 July, 1959 the City of Nedlands was proclaimed at the command of Governor Sir Charles Gairdner, in the packed Dalkeith Civic Hall. Mr Allan Jenkins read out the proclamation and the Minister for Local Government, Mr Leslie Logan, M.L.C. conducted the official swearing in ceremony of the new Mayor, John Charles Smith, the twelve current Councillors and the auditors.



He then appointed Mr Allan Jenkins as the City's first Town Clerk. Among those present was MLA for Nedlands, Deputy Premier Charles Court.

Significant events and dates that contributed to the development of the City of Nedlands:

1893: The first move to establish Local Government in our area with the creation of the Claremont Road Board on 31 March, 1893, governing a total area of ten square miles; forty years after the death of Adam Armstrong, Nedlands' first resident.

1898: Approximately two square miles excised to form the Municipality of Claremont.

1932: Name changed from Claremont Road Board to Nedlands Road Board.

1956: Name changed from Nedlands Road Board to the Municipality of Nedlands.

1959: One hundred and thirty years after the first British settlement around the Swan River, Nedlands achieved City status. Name changed from Nedlands Road Board to the City of Nedlands while under the guidance of Mayor John Charles Smith Esq., JP Mayor.

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.

The City of Nedlands is situated just 7km from Perth and stretches from the banks of the beautiful Swan River to the edge of the Indian Ocean. A population of over 21,000 live in the suburbs Nedlands, Dalkeith, Mt Claremont, Swanbourne, Karrakatta, and parts of Floreat and Shenton Park. Information for new residents is available to help you settle in comfortably.

On 1 July, 1959 the City of Nedlands was proclaimed at the command of Governor Sir Charles Gairdner, in the packed Dalkeith Civic Hall. Mr Allan Jenkins read out the proclamation and the Minister for Local Government, Mr Leslie Logan, M.L.C. conducted the official swearing in ceremony of the new Mayor, John Charles Smith, the twelve new Councillors and the auditors. He then appointed Mr Allan Jenkins as the City's first Town Clerk. Among those present was MLA for Nedlands, Deputy Premier Charles Court.

Significant events and dates that contributed to the development of the City of Nedlands:

1893: The first move to establish Local Government in our area with the creation of the Claremont Road Board on 31 March, 1893, governing a total area of ten square miles; forty years after the death of Adam Armstrong, Nedlands' first resident.

1898: Approximately two square miles excised to form the Municipality of Claremont.

1932: Name changed from Claremont Road Board to Nedlands Road Board.

1956: Name changed from Nedlands Road Board to the Municipality of Nedlands.

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