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How we recruited an Accounts Officer

About the client

Our client has over 30 years experience in the civil earth-moving industry. They are committed to providing value-added earth-moving services by creating successful partnerships with their customers throughout the entire construction process.

Location - Perth, WA
Industry - construction / earth-moving
Size - 30 employees

We applied our three-phase service delivery model for this recruitment drive.

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Video job advertisement

Social media algorithms favour videos over still content, so we create video advertisements for all vacancies to help source our candidates.

We take full advantage of this unique and highly effective form of candidate sourcing in order to reach the right candidate at the right time.

We post our videos on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. They are posted on these platforms 10-20 times, based on relevance. Our videos typically receive over 1,000 views within the first 24 hours.

Job advertisement

We constantly refresh, rewrite and reformat our job advertisements to optimise the quality of applications received. Our approach is aggressive - we post around 20 advertisements for every permanent job. Advertisements are posted on:

Job boards - Seek, Adzuna, Glassdoor, Indeed and Jora
Social media - LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
11 Recruitment's website

On average, our advertisements receive over 100 applications and perform well above the market benchmark for Seek, shown in this graph.

Accounts Officer

Well-established and reputable company located north of the river
Permanent, full-time position with an immediate start

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is a privately owned company in the civil construction industry. They aim to provide the best products and services possible.

Their warehouse - which includes an attached office - based in the Northern suburbs.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Payroll duties for this role will include:

Timesheet calculation
Processing weekly payroll for 30 staff
Processing payroll deductions, payments and GL reconciliations
Preparing files for new employees
Reporting to the CFO

Accounts duties for this role will include:

AP and AR - processing invoices, weekly payments and statement reconciliations
Bank and weekly sales reconciliations
Creating purchase orders
Entering creditor/debtor data and allocating to GL accounts
Completing end-of-month reporting
Updating KPI information
Managing petty cash

Administration duties for this role will include:

Answering calls and greeting visitors
Managing incoming and outgoing mail
Liaising with contractors and suppliers to place new job order
Booking accommodation
Filing and archiving documents and records
Data entry
Monitoring and maintaining stationary and office equipment
Purchasing PPE and first aid
Ensuring the office is clean and amenities are stocked

ABOUT YOU

The successful candidate will need:

Experience in a similar role
The unrestricted right to work in Australia
MYOB proficiency
Experience in payroll
Microsoft Excel proficiency
Excellent verbal and written communication
Accurate data entry and attention to detail

Assessment Matrix design

Our in-house designed, custom made software generates an Assessment Matrix, which is our blueprint for the recruitment process. Our process consists of screening, interviews, document verification, skills testing, personality profiling and reference checks.

Ticks indicate the point at which each criteria is addressed. More importance criteria are checked multiple times throughout the recruitment process.

Selection criteria	Screen	Interview	Docs.	Profiling	Refs.
Education
Bachelor's degree - advantage	✓		✓
Experience
High-volume accounts	✓	✓			✓
Payroll for 30 employees	✓	✓			✓
Induction file preparation	✓	✓			✓
End-to-end AP / AR	✓	✓			✓
Sales reconciliations	✓	✓			✓
PO creation	✓	✓			✓
Month-end reporting	✓	✓			✓
Petty cash	✓	✓			✓
High-volume admin	✓	✓			✓
Arranging travel and accommodation	✓	✓			✓
Other
Microsoft Office - advanced	✓
Adobe software - intermediate	✓
Spelling and grammar - excellent	✓
Verify LinkedIn vs CV	✓	✓			✓
Accept expected salary ($75k)	✓	✓			✓
Previous warning of termination?	✓	✓			✓
Will you pass a drug test?	✓	✓			✓
Behaviour
Dominance - 35%		✓		✓
Influence - 32%		✓		✓
Steadiness - 59%		✓		✓
Compliance - 69%		✓		✓
Forms signed
Health / police check			✓
Signed document - tell the truth			✓
Docs verified
Driver’s licence	✓		✓
Citizen AU / NZ or PR	✓		✓

DISC profiling

Similar to people, jobs have their own behavioural profile that is based on duties, environment and communication. We create a profile for every job vacancy, enabling us to match an applicant's behaviour against that of a specific role.

We use DISC, which examines the following attributes:

Dominance - accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence
Influence - persuading others, openness, dependability
Steadiness - cooperation, sincerity, dependability
Compliance - quality, accuracy, expertise

DISC profile - Accounts Officer

Accounts Officer

Shortlisted candidates

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Behavioural adaptation by candidates to match the job profile:

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Results

Our aim is to produce a strong shortlist by sourcing widely. We measure every stage in our recruitment process to ensure we meet this key objective.

Our service comes with an extended 18-month replacement guarantee. This guarantee means our interests are mutually aligned - to recruit high achievers who will excel and stay.

Video views

1,013

Applications received

Interviewed by 11 Recruitment

Shortlisted

Interviewed by client

Hired

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