* APS4 Scheme Debt Finance Officer
* Contract Term: 12 Months + possible extension
* Hourly Rate: $43.82 excluding Super
* Adelaide location + Hybrid working arrangement
About the team:
The Fraud Investigations Branch detects and responds to internal and external payment fraud against the Scheme. The branch focus is on protecting the Scheme’s financial sustainability, strengthening fraud control arrangements and supporting the Fraud Fusion Taskforce to strengthen the Commonwealth’s fraud detection and response capability.
The Scheme Debt Team is responsible for the management and recovery Scheme Debt to ensure compliance with legislation and finance law pertaining to the collection, reporting, monitoring and acquitting of Scheme debts. The team supports Scheme payments, creating efficiencies and controls, identifying process improvements to reduce the need for manual payment intervention, and provides appropriate management advice and reports in respect to key financial obligations.
About the Role:
The APS4 Scheme Debt Finance Officer is a team membership position that will work within defined parameters relating to their area of responsibility. The role will be required to apply well-established policy, principles, practices and procedures to achieve outcomes that supports and contributes to the departments objectives.
The role will be required to provide operational and administrative support that is informed and directed by sound knowledge in related areas and may undertake some research and analysis activities.
The APS4 Scheme Debt Finance Officer will have a considerable level of contact with internal and external stakeholders and will be required to communicate with and provide advice on a range of matters to resolve moderately complex enquiries.
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
*Assisting with the scheme debt register, including system cancelled debts and unrecovered debts.
*Assisting with debt recovery processes in line within the Scheme Debt Management Policy, including liaising with other business areas, Providers and Participants in relation to payment arrangements, debt write-offs and waivers.
*Preparing invoices, including payment request cancellation as required.
*Provide input into the development of Standard Operating Procedures for the team, including process mapping requirements.
*Extracting and analysing data from SAP/PSCD and other data systems for management reporting
*Assisting with queries regarding pending SAP/PSCD payments and bank account issues.
*Supporting project initiatives, collaborating with key stakeholders within the team and across the NDIA.
Eligibility/Other Requirements: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a pre-employment National Police History check, Worker Screening check and/or Working with Children Check (where required) and provide evidence of Australian Citizenship.
How To Apply
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