The Game Changers:

At AP+ we're changing the game! We're doing big things, and we can't do it alone. We're part of a big ecosystem, and we know teamwork and passion for our purpose is what will make us successful. We value the unique talents, perspectives, of all our employees. This includes people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, First Nations Peoples, people of all abilities and diverse backgrounds, as well as their families. AP+ brings together Australia’s three domestic payment providers, BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia, into one integrated entity. Bringing these businesses together enables AP+ to create a more competitive and coordinated Australian payments organisation that is strategically placed to respond to the impacts of regulatory and technological change today, and into the future.

The Purpose:
As Product Management Lead you will be responsible for the strategy, management and optimisation of certain products and services within the Business Payments product portfolio, with a specific focus on BPAY, PayID and the development of a new Confirmation of Payee service. Over time, product responsibilities may change or expand according to the needs of the team.  

As the business owner for the products/services within your portfolio you are responsible for developing action plans and identifying key initiatives to drive adoption and take up of the products/services and identifying opportunities for optimising performance and product enhancements.

This is what you’d be required to do:

• Execute on an agreed set of priorities for BPAY including identifying portfolio opportunities, operational process improvements and potential changes to product pricing 
• Focus on opportunities to drive take up and adoption of PayID and have business ownership for the development of the Confirmation of Payee service
• Be accountable for execution of strategies, action plans and key performance metrics for products under your responsibility, in close consultation with AP+ members
• Identify new product enhancements, including process improvements, to support the future growth and adoption of the relevant products and services
• Work with the AP+ Marketing team on product marketing plans and initiatives
• Work with AP+ Technology team to deliver on key product enhancements and operational improvements   

We’d love to hear from you if you have;

• Robust experience in product management/product strategy/ stakeholder management roles within the payments industry  
• Specific payments knowledge and experience including technical understanding, and ideally encompassing corporate and B2B payments. Knowledge of bank receivables products would be an advantage   
• Experience in analysing product/marketing data and customer insights  
• Demonstrated experience analysing and interpreting product, market and financial information including ability to understand commercial and pricing models, and make fact-based decisions 
• Excellent team collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with key external stakeholders   
• Excellent communication skills, particularly written (presentations, articles, marketing collateral etc.) 
• Ability to translate strategy into operational and tactical activities, assess progress and adapt tactics and plans accordingly 
• Proactively solve problems to effect change, make informed decisions and take responsibility   
• Strong business acumen – commercial, pricing, competitor analysis 

What’s Next:

We know applying for a role can be a nerve-wracking experience, so we endeavor to review applications and plan to schedule screening interviews within the next two weeks. If you are among selected candidates, we’ll be in touch to schedule a phone interview. In any case, we will keep you posted on the status of your application.

We want to remove all barriers to inclusion so if you need advice or support with your application, we’re here to help. Please reach out to [email protected] We also encourage you to let us know your pronouns at any point during the recruitment process.

 AP+ are not partnering with Recruitment agencies for this role.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Liaising with customer to plan and implement agreed services
• Scheduling of appointments.
• Maintaining busy inboxes, with queries, appointments and non-appointment services
• Providing administrative and operational support to consultant practitioners
• Providing information and advice to customers, or prospective customers
• Undertaking other tasks assigned to the Client Services team, including reception duties,  dictation, invoicing and supporting the greater team in general.

NOTE : Due to the nature of work related to this position, employee will be required to obtain a Federal Government Clearance. The minimum requirement to obtain this clearance is to be an Australian citizen.

What you get to do in this role

• Lead the team in achieving support KPI’s and critical Technical Support Metrics - CSAT, Time to Resolution (TTR), Backlogs etc.
• Lead efforts to hire, develop, and build a technical team.
• Oversee and participate in Change Management as it relates to Customer Support.
• Own and bring to conclusion customer escalations by working with cross-teams in Support, development and operations team.
• Drive daily incident management success from detection to resolution and dissatisfaction issues for customer accounts leading to ongoing enhanced customer experiences.
• Represent the Platform, Product and ServiceNow effectively with customers.
• Manage major operations outages and communications to the customers.
• Participate in weekend and holiday on-call rotation as required.
• Evaluation of current processes, technology, and organizational skills to identify areas of improvement and opportunities for advancement.
• Lead by example to cultivate and maintain a culture built on teamwork and collaboration.
• Manage to the company and department’s vision, mission and values.

The role:

Permanent full time administration officer, flexible working conditions based in our North Ryde office.

Key duties include:

• Working closely with the Customer Relationship Manager and Admin Assistant
• Client registrations
• Assisting with Customer monthly reporting
• Assisting with meeting customer service level agreements
• End of month billing
• Assisting with allied health case management
• Liaison with Benchmark allied health staff
• Customer account management tasks
• Setting up group education session
• Other general office admin tasks as needed

To propel our next phase of growth, ServiceNow is further investing in the Global Public Sector organization. We're building a team of collaborative individuals who are passionate about the opportunity to transform the Public Sector using ServiceNow's powerful digital workflow platform. 

The company is looking for a Head of Global Public Safety who is an expert in Public Safety Solutions and has a deep understanding of the emergency management life cycle, including planning, response, recovery, and resourcing. The position provides visibility within ServiceNow and an opportunity to support accelerated sales results.  

You understand the core Public Safety business processes and surrounding technology ecosystem, including systems of record and third-party data providers. You also have a technical vision for ServiceNow’s opportunity to transform Public Safety and will work with customers and partners on the architecture for the solutions with care for this vision. Additionally, you are someone who can work with customers, account teams, and internal technical resources to align customer needs with platform capabilities and solution roadmaps. 

What you get to do in this role: 

• Own and design innovative industry solutions, aligning industry content, product capabilities, partners, and messaging to enable the field to consistently tell a story and align to customer’s key business imperatives while partnering with marketing on external assets showcasing domain knowledge, differentiators, and sales propositions.  

• Identify key customer business imperatives to ServiceNow capabilities; Regularly meet with customers and partners to gather feedback, and internally vet and test these imperatives.  

• Be the voice of the customer internally to sellers, enable partners with solutions, and advise sellers while helping with business planning and sales strategy. 

• Research key industry and solution trends from various sources including publications, thought leaders, industry conferences and events.  Document and communicate as they pertain to changes in positioning, capability gaps or total addressable market. 

• Monitor global challenges and opportunities, identify best growth practices across all markets, and maintain connections with key global players both internally and externally. 

• Attend external events of partners, competitors, and customers to bring knowledge to industry sellers, and use extensive ongoing industry knowledge to define and update industry personas and value propositions for each. 

• Define discovery questions for key personas, collaborate with the value team to define industry value (both quantitative and qualitative). 

• Maintain up-to-date domain assets. Identify gaps in foundational needs such as customer stories, demos, assets, and enablement, creating action plans to address these needs.  

• Sponsor global community task force, and focus groups to share knowledge, drive innovation, and host regular community calls to share and gather information across all geographies. 

• Offer thought-leadership both internally and externally on domain-related topics and actively engage in speaking, teaching, advocating, and championing the mission area in various forums, including webinars, podcasts, EBCs, customer calls, and more as a representative of the sector. 

• Collaborate closely with Account Executives and Solution Consultants on use cases and customer opportunities, enabling teams on relevant solutions. 

• Create and lead of global Center of Excellence on public safety. 

• Integrate, curate, and share use cases globally related to public safety. 

• Partner closely with solution and field marketing to develop relevant and engaging assets. work closely with marketing teams to align assets and events to the GTM strategy. 

• Co-innovate solutions with internal team of Architects, Designers and Developers to reimagine complex customer challenges. 

What you get to do in this role

• Lead efforts to hire, develop, and build a technical team.
• Oversee and participate in Change Management as it relates to Customer Support.
• Lead by example to cultivate and maintain a culture built on teamwork and collaboration.
• Own and bring to conclusion customer escalations by working with cross-teams in Support, development and operations team.
• Drive daily incident management success from detection to resolution and dissatisfaction issues for customer accounts leading to ongoing enhanced customer experiences.
• Represent the Platform, Product and ServiceNow effectively with customers.
• Manage major operations outages and communications to the customers.
• Participate in weekend and holiday on-call rotation as required.
• Evaluate current processes, technology, and organizational skills to identify areas of improvement and opportunities for advancement.
• Manage to the company and department’s vision, mission and values.

Why we are different

Retinue Accounting was founded on the belief that small business accounting support should be customer service focused, proactive and forward-looking, and at the same time be upfront about fees and charges. Our fixed fee subscription model ensures our clients have peace of mind that we’ll give them the right advice, at the right time, at the right price with no hidden additional costs.  

We are so much more than another accounting business – we are a team driven by our values and behaviours. Adaptability, commitment, and humility fuel our client-centred approach. We honour our promises, promote transparency, and move swiftly with purpose. We embrace new challenges, and proactively raise issues with a solutions mindset, knowing it takes a team effort to build a successful business. 

The role

As a Senior Payroll Officer at Retinue, you will be joining a growing team responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payroll for our diverse client base. Leveraging your extensive experience in payroll processing, you will ensure that our clients' payroll operations are efficient, accurate, and compliant with tax legislation.

You will not be responsible for calculating employee hours, rates of pay or entitlements, which we consider to be employment relations work and outside the scope of our payroll processing service. You will however be responsible for helping our clients make payroll processing less of a burden and making sense of complex ATO/tax obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that payroll processing is completed on time, is accurate, and with a focus on providing a hassle-free client experience.
• Ensure compliance with tax legislation and reporting requirements of different states and territories.
• Complete superannuation reconciliations and lodgements
• Accurately report, manage and lodge payroll information through the Single Touch Payroll system.
• Resolve escalated payroll issues and queries, collaborating with clients, internal stakeholders, and external authorities when necessary.
• Stay up to date with changes in tax legislation that may impact payroll processing.
• Provide supervision to junior team members, including offshore team members, to help foster their professional growth and development.
• Complete year-end payroll activities and reconciliations.

Requirements

• Minimum two years’ experience in a similar role, managing payroll for multiple clients ideally in a senior capacity.
• Xero payroll software experience is essential; experience of using other payroll systems will be considered favourably.
• In-depth knowledge of tax legislation to the extent it relates to payroll processing.
• Ability to manage multiple client priorities, meet deadlines, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Flexible working options available, ability to work from home following probation.
• Great location close to public transport, with beautiful, serviced offices and first-class amenities
• Financial support with any formal studies and institute membership fees
• Training and professional development relevant to your role, provided by our dedicated in-house training and development team.
• Exceptional professional growth opportunities in a fast-growing business, including (but not limited to) management opportunities or lateral opportunities.
• Become a part of our growth story, work in a high performance and dynamic organisation that recognises success with career progression and further opportunities.

Salary

$80,000-$95,000 + super (depending on experience)

Our Commitment

At Retinue Accounting, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial to our success. We recognise that diversity goes beyond race and ethnicity, and includes differences in gender, orientation, age, religion, ability, and more. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels comfortable being themselves and can fully contribute their talents and skills. We are dedicated to building a workplace that values and respects individuals from all backgrounds and experiences. We welcome and encourage all qualified applicants to apply, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, or other differences.

• Join an Award-Winning Superannuation Fund Provider 
• Utilise Your Experience Supporting Enterprise-Wide Records Management Programs 
• Permanent, Full-time 
• Sydney Located
• Hybrid Working - Blend of working from Sydney CBD Office and Home

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $75 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Job

The Manager, Records Management supports the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of effective controls over Rest’s electronic and physical records to ensure that they continue to be accurate, reliable, and accessible when needed, aligning to Rest’s legal, regulatory, and business requirements.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities: 

• Support the implementation and enhancement of policies, procedures standards, systems and controls that align with better practices, ensuring the effective management of electronic and physical records at Rest throughout the record lifecycle.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of a records retention and disposal schedule based on legislative and regulatory requirements, business needs and risk appetite.
• Perform monitoring and measurement activities over the effectiveness of Rest’s records management practices through regular audits, reviews, and evaluations.
• Support the enhancement and delivery of training and awareness programs for staff members on records management policies, procedures, and tools.
• Provide advice and guidance to staff members on records management matters.
• Administering and registering records, for example, ensuring appropriate processing of digital records into an EDRMS (Electronic Document and Records Management System).
• Partner with internal stakeholders, such as Information Security, Data, Compliance, Legal, Enterprise Security & Safeguarding, and other business teams as required to ensure alignment and synergies of records management controls with other internal frameworks, requirements, and obligations.
• Partner with external stakeholders, such as the Fund Administrator as required, to ensure appropriate management of Rest records in accordance established policies and standards

About the opportunity:

Rural Funds Management (RFM) has an opportunity to join the Finance and Accounting team as an Accounts Payable Officer. You will be at the forefront of ensuring financial precision through meticulous accounts data entry, seamless management of accounts payable and receivable functions, and the provision of support for general accounting processes. This role requires an individual who thrives in a busy and fast paced environment. This position is based in our Sydney office and supports working from home on Wednesday each week.

 Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include:

• Accounts data entry
• Accounts payable reconciliation
• Accounts receivable reconciliation
• Online banking inquiries & payments
• Bank reconciliations
• Reviewing accounts
• Preparing and processing payments
• Preparing and processing of expense claims
• Month end time charging
• Month end journals
• General ledger reconciliation
• Maintenance of fixed asset register
• Provide support for account audits
• Carry out administrative duties
• Assistance with monthly forecasting process
• Provide effective liaison and assistance to all entities
• Provide support with annual and half yearly audits

To be successful in this position:

• You will have experience in a similar role
• You will have excellent attention to detail, good numeracy skills, good organisational and time management skills and good oral communication
• You will have a high level of expertise with MS Office Suite, particularly MS Excel
• Candidates with a Certificate IV Bookkeeping will be highly regarded
• Candidates with a working knowledge or MS Great Plains and/or Dynamics is advantageous

• A competitive salary, between $70,000 - $85,000 p.a. (plus superannuation), dependent on your previous experience, skills, and qualifications
• Salary continuance and life insurance, and annual discretionary bonus subject to eligibility criteria

How to Apply:

To be considered for this position, please submit a covering letter addressing the criteria mentioned above and your resume via our website by 16 February 2024. Please note that candidates may be evaluated before the closing date.

 About Rural Funds Management:

Rural Funds Management (RFM) is an industry leader managing approximately $2.0 billion in agricultural assets on behalf of retail and institutional investors, including the ASX-listed Rural Funds Group (RFF). We have over 26 years' experience owning, developing, and operating farms in most Australian states. 

At RFM, our culture is built on the core principle of 'Managing good assets with good people.' We believe in being precise, offering variety, rewarding effort, and providing a friendly workplace. 

Joining RFM means becoming part of a dedicated team of over 240 professionals, including fund managers, finance experts, horticulturists, agronomists, and farm managers. Whether you are seeking a corporate or operational role, RFM has a place for individuals who are passionate about agriculture and finance.