School Officer (Finance) - Mt Maria College, PETRIE

Summary

Deliver impactful and efficient financial services to the school leadership team, supporting a wide range of tasks to drive and enhance the smooth operation of the school! This role is primarily responsible for purchasing and accounts payables and provides assistance/back up from time to time with receivables.

• Location: Mt Maria College - Petrie (S)
• Start date: 22 June 2026
• Work hours: 38 hours per week
• Salary: School Officer Level 4 - $36.98/ hr + 12.75% Super (School Salary Scale)
• Status: Term Time Continuing | School holidays are unpaid
• Ad close date: 21 June 2026
• Contact: (07) 3285 5500 | spetrie@bne.catholic.edu.au

About the opportunity

In this position you will be responsible for:

• Providing operational support and advice on a diverse range of financial matters
• Developing and/or administering financial processes and procedures, and responding to inquiries about the financial operations across the school
• Reviewing and developing local systems and providing recommendations for enhancement
• Monitoring service delivery to identify efficiencies and ensure compliance with government and departmental directives, policies, and standards
• Analysing data for school leadership reports
• Facilitating work to meet deadlines and commitments and supervising and training support staff as required.
• Coordinating purchasing and payables
• Providing support and faciliating college fuctions and events.

About you

To be successful in this position you will bring relevant contemporary skills and experience including:

• Providing operational support and advice on financial matters at a senior level
• Proficiency in developing and administering financial processes and procedures
• Reviewing and enhancing local systems for efficiency
• Ability to monitor service delivery for compliance with policies and standards
• Experience analysing data for leadership reports
• Strong organisational skills to ensure the deadlines are met, supervising, and training support staff
• Certificate in Finance or related field
• For this position you are not required to be Catholic.

Eligibility and Safeguarding requirements:

• Eligibility to work in Australia for the duration of the appointment
• Hold a Paid Employee Positive Notice Blue Card prior to commencement.