Purchasing Officer

Full Time, permanent opportunity
Located at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA

Serco is a place where you can grow. Your impact makes a meaningful difference, and we're committed to supporting your professional and personal goals. You’ll also have access to flexible benefits designed to support your wellbeing and growth, including:

• Professional development and career growth opportunities
• Access to employee networks and an inclusive workplace culture
• Employee discounts and benefits through our partners
• Wellbeing initiatives and resources to support you at work and at home
• Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance
• The opportunity to build your purchasing and procurement expertise

Make an impact at Serco. As a Purchasing Officer, you’ll support the efficient delivery of purchasing and Purchase to Pay activities across Fiona Stanley Hospital. Working closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, Procurement and our Offshore Shared Service Centre, you’ll help ensure purchasing processes are accurate, timely and aligned with our standards. You’ll also contribute to process improvements that help make purchasing simpler and more effective for our teams.

As a Purchasing Officer in the Procurement team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Creating Purchase Orders with accurate GL and WBS coding
• Supporting stakeholders with quotes, supplier engagement and purchasing processes
• Managing goods receipting, invoice workflows and supplier queries
• Supporting month-end accruals, reconciliations and Purchase to Pay activities
• Resolving blocked invoices, GR/IR issues and other purchasing queries
• Contributing to continuous improvement across the Purchase to Pay process

You’ll also support emergency vendor onboarding, subcontractor annual rate indexation and other Procurement activities as required, including providing leave coverage for the team.

Serco is a place for you. You could be a great fit if you have:

• Previous purchasing experience, with a track record of delivering value through purchasing or procurement
• Accounts Payable experience or a sound understanding of financial processes
• Experience working with Purchase to Pay systems, with SAP experience highly regarded
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
• The ability to work independently, solve problems and maintain a professional approach
• Strong attention to detail and confidence working with internal stakeholders and suppliers

A relevant tertiary qualification will be highly regarded but isn't essential. You’ll also need to meet the role’s required pre-employment checks and hospital vaccination requirements, including a satisfactory National Police Check.

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters? At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges. We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia and New Zealand and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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