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Join our team as a Finance Officer and play a key role in supporting the financial operations of the organisation by ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and reliability across day-to-day processes. Contribute to maintaining well-structured financial records, assisting with reconciliations, and supporting reporting activities. If you excel at problem-solving, attention to detail, and ensuring smooth workflows, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Finance Officer is responsible for providing comprehensive administrative and financial support to the finance team, ensuring the accurate processing of transactions, maintenance of financial records, and efficient delivery of accounts payable, receivable, reconciliation, and reporting activities across all McLean Farms group entities.

Our Core Values

At McLean Farms, our values guide everything we do:

• We Care – We nurture our people, animals, environment, workplace, and community.
• We Are One Team – We work together towards a common goal in a respectful and effective manner.
• We Aim for Excellence – We strive to improve continuously.
• We Find a Way – We work together to find solutions to every challenge.
• We Do the Right Thing – We make decisions and choose behaviours based on what is right and what is wrong.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the finance team to ensure efficient daily operations.
• Assist with a variety of administrative tasks and ad hoc requests to support smooth financial processes.
• Maintain accurate and well-organised financial records and filing systems.
• Support data validation activities, including coding, checking, and reviewing transactions as required.
• Respond to internal and external enquiries in a timely and professional manner, including managing the company landline during staff absences.
• Prepare and issue customer invoices with a high level of accuracy.
• Manage accounts receivable functions, including reconciliations and follow-up on outstanding debts.
• Analyse sales performance and monitor pricing and item consistency.
• Accurately process data entry for accounts payable transactions.
• Assist with accounts payable reconciliations and supplier statement reviews.
• Support the preparation and processing of weekly and monthly payments via banking platforms.
• Monitor and schedule recurring payments to ensure all deadlines are consistently met.
• Assist in the preparation of financial reports across multiple business entities.
• Support month-end processes, including the preparation and posting of journals.
• Perform bank reconciliations across all entities within the McLean Farms group.
• Complete account reconciliations, ensuring all supporting documentation is accurate and appropriately filed.

What we are looking for:

• Completed or currently studying towards an accounting degree
• Minimum 2 years of experience in an accounting or finance supporting role
• Awareness and understanding of completing tasks in adherence to the Australian Accounting Standards
• Ability and willingness to work cooperatively with all internal and external stakeholders of the organisation
• Strong written and oral communication, the ability to communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders
• Emphasis on accuracy and high quality of work
• Proficient computer skills with emphasis in using Microsoft Office products including but limited to Word, Excel, Outlook and use of an accounting software ERP
• Sound reasoning ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of situations
• Understanding and adoption of organisation environmental responsibilities and practices
• Ability to instruct, educate and support other members of the team to ensure compliance with systems, processes, policies and procedures.

Benefits:

• A family-friendly, welcoming team environment.
• A stable and secure role in a growing industry.
• Work that makes a difference, contributing to Australia’s food supply.
• Additional Birthday Leave on top of your 4 weeks annual leave.
• 2 dozen Eggs per fortnight.
• Assistance to reach your full potential & accomplishing your goals.
• Comprehensive, ongoing training provided.
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.
• Reward and Recognition Program.
• Company hosted social events, including BBQs and team gatherings.
• A safe, inclusive, values-driven workplace.

 Why McLean Farms?

At McLean Farms, we believe in supporting our team members' growth and development. You will be part of a proactive, industry-leading business that values work-life balance, team collaboration, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to make a difference and contribute to a thriving agricultural environment, we want to hear from you! Join us in ensuring the highest standards of biosecurity and animal welfare in poultry farming.

Apply Now

To learn more about McLean Farms and what we do, please visit our website: www.mcleanfarms.au.

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Australia to apply.

You must not have any birds, pigs or poultry at home, and you must not regularly come into contact with birds, pigs or poultry in order to work at McLean Farms.

Please ensure that you have read the Bio-Security Document on the right-hand side.

To proceed with employment shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a Pre-employment functional assessment and Drug and Alcohol testing.