Accountant

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About Avant

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.

Avant now represents 80,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.

As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.

About the role:
The purpose of this role is to assist the Finance Operations Manager in providing a streamlined Accounts Payable function through the accurate and timely payments to suppliers, claim-related payments, refunds to members and staff related expenses claims.
This is a great opportunity to join our AP team on a 12-month, fixed-term contract. You'll be working in a fast paced and supportive team based at our Darling Park offices in the CBD. We have a hybrid work policy.

Key accountabilities:
Supporting the Finance Operations Manager
Ensure that payments are processed accurately and promptly
Assist with the weekly payment runs.
Handle account queries, both internal & external.
To be successful you will have:
Tertiary qualifications in Accounting discipline beneficial
Successful track record in a high-volume environment, insurance industry would be beneficial
3-5 years working experience in Accounts Payable, including running payments
Experience using Microsoft Dynamics 365
Experience using an OCR software for invoice processing
Experience in Readsoft (Kofax) and Exflow is highly desirable
Ability to meet deadlines
Strong customer service and communications skills
We prefer to deal with candidates directly. If you would like to learn more about this role, please contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on lisa.craddock@avant.org.au.

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Why work at Avant?

At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.

We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.

Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.

We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.

We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

For further information, please contact our Careers team at careers@avant.org.au.

Please note: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer. Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-1+ virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-1+ vaccination for valid medical reasons.