Accounts Receivable Clerk at Te Whatu Ora, All Locations

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Permanent, part-time position (0.7FTE; 56 hours per fortnight) based from any Health New Zealand location.
• Join a national finance team that helps keep New Zealand's healthcare system running smoothly.
• A great opportunity for an experienced accounts receivable professional who enjoys problem-solving, customer service, and working in a fast-paced environment. 

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders. 

We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations - from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities. 

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible and innovative care. 

About the Role 

As an Accounts Receivable Officer, you'll play an important role in ensuring customer invoicing, receipting, and account management activities are processed accurately and efficiently. Working within the national Finance team, you'll help maintain strong financial processes and provide excellent service to both internal and external customers.

This is a varied and fast-paced role where you'll process invoices and credit requests, reconcile payments, allocate receipts to customer accounts, and maintain direct debit arrangements. You'll also act as a first point of contact for customer invoice enquiries, helping to resolve issues and provide a positive customer experience. Working with high transaction volumes, you'll use your attention to detail and organisational skills to ensure work is completed accurately and within agreed timeframes. Alongside this, you'll contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and support a collaborative team environment focused on delivering quality outcomes.

About you 

As an experienced accounts receivable professional, you'll bring strong attention to detail, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to thrive in a busy transactional environment.

• At least two years' experience in high-volume accounts receivable processing and receipting.
• Strong administration and data entry skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Proficiency across Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Outlook.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• A proactive, organised approach with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively as part of a team.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.    

How to Apply 

To apply, please click “apply now.”  All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by 11:59PM Wednesday 1 July 2026. For further information, please contact Nicole Rickard on Nicole.Rickard@TeWhatuOra.Govt.NZ.

The full position description is available on the Health New Zealand Careers site.

Whilst Health New Zealand is undergoing change, affected kaimahi will be given preference and priority for this position.

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process before the closing date of this advert.