Senior Banking Officer

Established in 2000, National Storage is one of Australasia’s largest self-storage providers, tailoring self-storage solutions in 270+ storage centres across Australia and New Zealand. With a strong growth strategy in place, we are seeking to attract and retain more great people to join our team.

The Role:

Reporting to the Transactional Accounting Manager, the Senior Banking Officer is an integral part of the National Storage Finance Transactional team. Based in our corporate head office, this role overs a great opportunity to work in a fast-moving, dynamic, ASX environment, playing a key part in our successes as our business continues to expand.

This role holds responsibility for the accurate and timely completion of all bank reconciliations for National Storage’s transactional banking accounts. This includes completing ledger and statement loads into our reconciliation software, performing auto reconciliation processes, and manually matching and investigating any unreconciled items and discrepancies.

The role includes reconciling credit card, direct debit, and AMEX daily settlements from over 270+ locations in both Australia and New Zealand, and allocating bpay receipt, direct credits and other ad hoc transaction. This role also acts as the main point of contact for all banking and receipting related queries for the business.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Perform daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations on multiple bank accounts across our Australian and New Zealand locations.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies such as missing transactions, imputation errors, or other system related issues.
• Ability to investigate and apply unallocated transactions in a timely manner, working closely with other stakeholders within the finance team.
• Daily upload of ledger transactions into TechOne for all transactional bank accounts managed by National Storage.
• Match off daily transactions and investigate matching discrepancies promptly.
• Lead the process of clearing reconciling bank items in a timely manner, working closely with other members.

Benefits of Working with Us:

• Permanent role with an industry leader and ASX 200 listed company.
• Work from home one day per week arrangement once you are fully equipped in the role.
• continued focus on learning and development.
• Generous company paid parental leave.
• Discounts on a range of storage services including units and merchandise.
• Unique wine offers and discounts through our subsidiary company Wine Ark.
• 24-hour wellbeing support for you and your family through our Sonder partnership.
• Reimbursements for approved wellbeing services under our WellNS Wallet Program.
• Exclusive discounts on a range of leading retailers, hotels, restaurants and more.
• Ability to earn referral incentives.

About You:

• Specialist experience in performing bank reconciliations in a large corporate business with multiple sources of customer receipts, including the maintenance of auto reconciliation functions.
• Strong understanding of the accounting principles behind the bank reconciliation processes, and wider financial reporting impacts.
• Highly proficient in Excel and other systems. Experience of handling large volumes of transaction data and running other data driven tasks such as reconciliation uploads and macros.
• Experience in enacting improvements / elements of automation to manual financial processes.
• Strong problem-solving mindset including being comfortable in challenging discrepancies.
• Reliable, self-motivated and driven to succeed.
• Ability to work well without supervision with the ability to exercise initiative.
• Proactive and solution focused.
• Innovative – always looking for new/improved ways to do business.

Please note, applicants may be subject to pre-employment checks which can include reference checks, medical checks and, with consent, police background checks. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.