Finance Officer. Permanent Full Time – Sunshine (VIC) or Parramatta (NSW)

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees, and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

Our National Immigration Support Service (NISS) offers comprehensive assistance to individuals seeking asylum and refugees residing within the Australian community, and to victims and survivors at risk of or who have experienced forced marriage across Australia.

At Life Without Barriers, our dedicated and flexible team plays a crucial role in improving the lives of refugees and asylum seekers nationally. If you are driven by values of inclusivity and respect, joining our team represents a profound opportunity to make a significant difference. We approach our work with empathy and respect, addressing the unique needs of our clients and acknowledging the difficult paths they have traversed in search of safety from conflict and adversity.

About the Role

As a Finance Officer, you will work collaboratively across the Corporate Operations and NISS National Client Services divisions, providing financial support, analysis, and transactional processing across a wide range of finance functions. The role includes preparing journals, managing transactional finance processes, handling finance-related inquiries, coordinating and completing reconciliations.

The successful candidate will have experience in a financial transactional service role with exposure to accounts payable and receivable. They will support the NISS National business unit in achieving finance-related objectives while ensuring compliance with organisational finance policies and procedures.

This is a permanent full-time position that can be based in either our Sunshine (VIC) or Parramatta (NSW) office, with hybrid work-from-home arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the NISS team in meeting all financial, statutory, and taxation requirements
• Manage high-volume finance inboxes, ensuring timely and accurate responses.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Ensure finance-related information is communicated promptly
• Collaborate with the Operations team to resolve finance-related inquiries.
• Maintain data integrity within financial systems, perform regular reconciliations, and prepare journals
• Meet strict month-end deadlines, including the preparation of journals
• Prepare, review, and consolidate monthly invoicing and reporting requirements for funding bodies.
• Support and coordinate quality assurance audits and reviews for relevant stakeholders
• Review high-volume credit card transactions.
• Maintain accurate financial tracking records for services, programs, and allocated funds to ensure transparency, accountability, and compliance.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of training for NISS programs on contractual compliance for finance, property and the LWB finance systems.

Skills & Experience 

• Certificate-level qualifications in Accounting, Business, Commerce, or related
• Experience in high volume finance transactional services such as accounts payable, accounts receivable
• Previous experience using ERP and CRM systems.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high quality outcomes within set timeframes
• Experience working autonomously as well as part of a national team.
• Ability to interpret financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of GST processes and requirements.
• Intermediate skills in using Microsoft Excel, Word & Outlook.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively engaged diverse audiences

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks, including a National Criminal History Record Check.
     
Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Salary packaging benefits including up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax-free
• Access to Fitness Passport and employee wellbeing program
• Discounts on private health insurance, car servicing and more!
• Permanent full-time role with hybrid work from home arrangements

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries, including persons with disability who require adjustments, contact Debra Neil at recruitment@lwb.org.au.

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.
 

Applications close at midnight on Sunday the 24th of August, 2025