At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage cash settlements, bank reconciliations, and financial processes for 250+ venues.
- Company: Join Australian Venue Co., a leading hospitality group in Australia and New Zealand.
- Benefits: Career growth opportunities, supportive team culture, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with a focus on collaboration and problem-solving.
- Why this job: Turn your hospo job into a rewarding career with training and advancement support.
- Qualifications: 2+ years in finance administration, strong Excel skills, and attention to detail.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 $ per year.
Join a high-volume finance team supporting 250+ venues. Australian Venue Co. is looking for a detail-focused Senior Finance Administrator to join our Finance Administration team in Melbourne. This role will suit someone with experience in cash settlements, bank reconciliations and high-volume transaction environments who enjoys investigating issues, solving problems and keeping financial processes accurate and efficient.
About the role
- Preparing bank, cash-in-transit and cash-clearing journals
- Completing weekly cash and tender clearing reconciliations
- Investigating and resolving reconciliation variances
- Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Processing daily payment runs across the Group
- Preparing weekly cash variance reports
- Reviewing monthly cash floats from more than 210 venues
- Reviewing and processing petty cash receipts
- Reconciling venue debtors, functions, reservations and related receipts
- Supporting automated revenue data imports and troubleshooting issues
- Creating and maintaining reconciliation templates
- Assisting with external audits and finance projects
- Developing practical solutions to prevent recurring issues
About you
- At least two years’ experience in a similar finance administration, cash settlement or reconciliation role
- Experience working in a high-volume, multi-site retail or hospitality environment
- Strong understanding of POS systems and reconciliation processes
- Confidence investigating variances and resolving complex or recurring issues
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent attention to detail and organisation
- The ability to adapt quickly to new systems and applications
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach
- Initiative, sound judgement and a positive attitude
- A commitment to providing responsive service to internal stakeholders
Why join Australian Venue Co.?
Australian Venue Co. is one of Australia’s leading hospitality groups, operating a diverse portfolio of pubs, bars and restaurants across Australia and New Zealand. You’ll join a supportive Finance team and play an important role in maintaining accurate, efficient financial processes across a growing national business.
Australian Venue Co. promotes a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion through programs like AVC Pride for LGBTQIA+ support, Her Hospo for empowering women, and a First Nations Committee for reconciliation. We are committed to growing our understanding and engagement in diversity, equity and inclusion to build a more inclusive industry.
Turn your hospo job into a rewarding career
Whether you’re already in a hospitality management role or you’re ready for career progression into management, you can take the next step with Australian Venue Co. We’re passionate about training & developing our team members and providing internal career advancement opportunities. At AVC, we turn hospo jobs into careers! Join our team & get access to our AdVanCe Career Pathways program, our in-house development program that is tailored to the hospitality industry.
If your next step is to become a Duty Manager, Assistant Venue Manager or Venue Manager, we can support you on your career journey.
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