Finance Operations Manager

Provide quality transactional accounting services including management of key processes including billings, collections, payroll, AP and expenses
Only About Children (Oac) is no ordinary early education provider. At Only About Children, we offer 21st century care to meet the needs of today's modern families. We focus on innovation, development and a passion for education. We invite inspiring, creative and innovative people to join our team to support our 70 plus early learning and preschool campuses throughout Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

As Oac continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced Finance Operations Manager to join our experienced Finance team. If you are looking for an exciting challenge, a change or simply the enjoyment of working in an industry which is focused on bringing joy to children and their families then this is the challenge for you.

This position seeks to provide high quality transactional accounting services to OAC including responsibility for the management of key transactional processes, including billings and collections, payroll, accounts payable and expenses. This role will partner with key support teams, including Family Support and HR, to ensure that the end to end processes are efficient and supported by robust systems and master data management.

Reporting through to this role is the accounts payable and expenses team members, and the accounts receivable manager and payroll manager - therefore this role is accountable for mentoring and the professional growth of these functions.

In addition, the role needs to establish and continually modify general accounting procedures and systems to gain process improvements and play a lead role in the implementation of the new rostering & timesheet system and any future business systems and process improvement and automation initiatives

What we are looking for:

• Essential to be a Chartered Accountant or an Associate of CPA Australia or its equivalent with a minimum of five years' experience and skilled in all aspects of financial accounting.
• Experience in a commercial environment.
• Experience in delivering process improvement initiatives to enhance the operational efficiency of the organisation
• Experience in implementing appropriate processes and controls to manage customer, supplier and employee master data
• Experience in working with transactional finance systems and ERP systems.
• Experience in all payroll requirements.
• Experience in delivering impeccable customer/stakeholder service.

If this is you, then we'd love to:

• Give you a challenge - we want you to make a positive impact
• Help you grow - we actively invest in career growth and progression
• Provide you with benefits - we provide discounted childcare
• Celebrate your achievements - we love to recognise great work
• Work hard and play hard together - we like to have fun

If you're interested in this position simply apply by submitting a letter of application and your CV. For more information on Oac, have a look at our website www.oac.edu.au