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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE/RECEIVABLE OFFICER
• Excellent Salary Package incl salary sacrifice• Inner City North Location• Perm F/T working within a friendly team environment Leading statewide community service organisation seeks a self motivated accounts officer to join their busy finance team.This challenging and exciting role entails all facets of accounts payable & receivable functions including electronic and manual pay runs, banking, invoicing, end of month debtor billing, bank reconciliations etc. The successful candidate will possess strong accounts payable and receivable skills, be able to work autonomously and have a high level of commitment to attaining performance targets. Ideally you will have a minimum of 1 years experience in a similar role. A sound working knowledge of Attache and Microsoft Excel would be an advantage.Interested applicants should email their resume to -----

The ad above was posted by my current employer in order to replace me since I'll be coming home for a couple months and am quitting this position. There are a couple of things in the ad that I take exception with--#1 being challenging and exciting role, I suppose it is challenging in that for 8 hours I'm expected to sit in a room with 2 other accountants including my boss directly across from me which means--no music, no personal phone calls, nothing but work and occassionally e-mail, if I'm typing alot my boss always asks me if I need help..which I think translates as..are you e-mailing again--stop! Now about the exciting part, I reckon the most exciting a day gets around here is when someone brings in pastries to have at tea time...yep we do have tea breaks, or maybe that time when the receptionist was out and they were interviewing people for another job so they asked me to sit down at the front desk--that was exciting because no one else sits down there so I just listened to my mp3 player and texted all day. Sometimes a client will come in person to pay their bill and that's exciting because then I get to go talk to them and hear all about how our billing procedure sucks and how their bill was wrong. Oh wait I totally forgot about the time that one of the counselours got stuck in the bathroom because the door jammed..that was 30 minutes of excitement or the time that the receptionist was in the paper and her age was listed as 37 which she is NOT, there was lots of whispering that day..no way she's 37 and the like..so I guess yeah there is a fair bit of excitement.
Also the successful candidate will work autonomously and have a high level of commitment to meet performance targets--that would be good to have because while I work autonomously I don't have a high level of commitemnt to meet performance targets--I'm not even sure what those would be for this position...think it would be make sure the bills are paid on time...uhh 2 more weeks..have to keep telling myself..just 2 more weeks!!