Accounts Payable Officer

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About the role 

As an Accounts Payable Officer, this role is responsible for the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of transactional capture and recording associated with all third-party invoices (excluding intercompany transactions) for both the Moët Hennessy Australia (MHA) and Estates and Wines (E&W) businesses within the Moët Hennessy Australia Shared Service accounting function.

For this role, we are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Officer to join our team to predominantly support the Estates & Wines portfolio – Domaine Chandon, Cape Mentelle & Cloudy Bay. We are looking for an individual who has great attention to detail, likes to work in a fast-paced environment & is passionate about building a career within Finance.

We are looking for an individual who can bring ideas to drive continuous improvement across the Accounts Payable function and broader expenditure cycle through improved systems utilisation. The successful candidate will be a key part of enhancing the internal control framework within the department and across the business.

Role responsibilities

This role is responsible for transactional components of the Finance department including processing of creditors invoices, reconciliation of credit ledger to general ledger, handling accounts payable enquires, statement reconciliation, preparation of EFT payments (including international) as well as assisting with the expense claim system – Concur.

The Accounts Payable Officer role is the Finance department expenditure cycle “functional expert” and is responsible for the key areas of the expenditure cycle process including supplier master file maintenance, purchase orders, maintaining expenditure limits and required invoice approvals, invoice approvals, account coding, payment processing, maintenance of the credit ledger ensuring payments, credit notes, processing of weekly expense claims and monthly reconciliation.

This role is also responsible for building relationships within the business for the Estate & Wines portfolio who are based in other states of Australia & in NZ in relation to responding to supplier & internal queries and coding as they arise. You will also review, streamline and document procedures on an ongoing basis.

Skills & experience required: 

• Previous experience in an Accounts Payable Officer role
• Good at learning news systems – SAP & Concur would be ideal but not essential.
• Applies expertise and technology 
• Advanced processing efficiency and accuracy skills with the ability to process required volume of invoices and manual payments
• Listens, consults others and communicates proactively
• Proactive & establishes good relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• High attention to detail
• Follows procedures and policies and complies with internal control obligations of the role
• Time management and organisational skills

About Moët Hennessy

Moët Hennessy, No. 1 worldwide in Luxury Wine & Spirits, owns prestigious brands such as Moët & Chandon, Dom Pérignon, Hennessy, Glenmorangie, Ruinart and Veuve Clicquot. As a part of LVMH, luxury sector leader, Moët Hennessy is recognized for the quality of its products, its constant research of excellence and innovation. Moët Hennessy realizes more than 90% of its sales turnover in the export and embodies the French Art de vivre.

This unrivalled catalogue of prestigious products symbolizes excellence and authenticity. These products are all positioned in the high end of their respective markets. The portfolio includes sparkling and still wines from the world’s most celebrated wine-growing regions. The Maisons of the Group are all supported by a powerful global distribution network that has been strengthened over the years, coupled with an unrivalled stream of innovations aimed at recruiting new consumers.

Moët Hennessy owns close to twenty brands. In France, Brands such as Hennessy in Cognac, and our Champagne Maisons - Dom Pérignon, Moët & Chandon, Mercier, Veuve Clicquot, Ruinart and Krug – have a very strong regional integration. Moët Hennessy produces Scotch whiskies single malt in Scotland (Glenmorangie, Ardbeg), bourbon and rye whisky in the US, vodka in Poland (Belvedere) and Tequila in Mexico (Volcan de mi Tierra). Sparkling and still wines of Moët Hennessy produced in Argentina, Brazil, California, Australia, New-Zealand, India, China and in Spain (Ao Yun, Terrazas de los Andes, Chandon, Newton, Cape Mentelle, Cloudy Bay et Numanthia) are united within the business sector Estates & Wines. The Group also owns mythical wines which are Château Cheval Blanc (Saint-Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé « A »), Clos des Lambrays (Morey-Saint-Denis Grand Cru) and Château d’Yquem (Sauternes, unique Premier Cru Classé Supérieur).