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Hunt St

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Hunt St is an Australia-based recruiting firm founded by brothers Shaun and Eliot with the aim of helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hire top offshore talent directly, avoiding the high costs associated with traditional outsourcing agencies. The company offers a unique one-time finder's fee model, enabling clients to save significantly on recruitment costs. They provide comprehensive services including job postings, candidate screenings, interviews, and legal support for compliant remote hiring. Hunt St specializes in sourcing talent from countries like the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, and India, offering a transparent and ethical hiring process that allows businesses to provide fairer compensation to employees while ensuring stringent security and compliance measures are met.

📋 Description

• Prepare and review monthly management accounts • Analyse Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and cash flow information • Prepare variance analysis and identify trends, anomalies, data gaps and issues requiring investigation • Review accounting files and recommend cleanup, process improvements and reporting corrections • Build driver-based annual budgets, rolling forecasts, reforecasts and cash-flow forecasts • Analyse cash-flow pressure and identify working-capital improvement opportunities • Develop financial scenarios and explain budget and forecast assumptions and business drivers • Undertake commercial modelling and analyse job, project, product, customer and service-line profitability • Analyse margins, labour costs, productivity, pricing, capacity and working capital • Develop models supporting commercial decisions and translate analysis into practical recommendations • Develop and maintain management reports and dashboards using platforms such as Fathom, Syft Analytics or Translucent.io • Determine relevant KPIs and prepare written CFO commentary • Identify issues, opportunities and recommended actions from financial results • Investigate commercial issues, develop recommendations, obtain review, communicate findings and document processes • Delegate preparation and investigation work, review delegated work and develop junior team capability • Help bookkeeping staff and clients understand the commercial purpose of finance work • Participate in client meetings, progressively present analysis, recommend actions, facilitate discussions and independently lead management and CFO meetings • Use AI for research, analysis, documentation and workflow improvement • Identify automation opportunities and develop reusable prompts, templates and workflows • Contribute to AI-assisted CFO methodologies, training materials and productised CFO processes • Recognise Australian tax consequences, incorporate tax considerations into commercial recommendations and escalate matters requiring specialist advice • Work collaboratively with bookkeeping teams, external accountants, tax advisers and the CFO team

🎯 Requirements

• Philippines-based candidate • 5+ years of relevant accounting, management accounting or commercial finance experience • Practical experience with Australian accounting, taxation and SME environments • Strong management accounting capability, including management accounts, budgeting, forecasting and cash-flow analysis • Strong understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet, cash flow, profitability, margins and working capital • Ability to investigate financial information, identify accounting and data-quality issues, and improve management reporting • Strong Excel and financial modelling skills • Strong accounting software experience, preferably Xero • Practical understanding of GST, BAS, PAYG withholding, payroll and superannuation • Sound commercial judgement and ability to recognise tax implications and escalate matters appropriately • Ability to work collaboratively with external accountants and advisers • Excellent written and spoken English, with ability to explain financial concepts to non-accountants • Strong problem-solving, initiative, ownership and organisational skills • Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, collaborate remotely and delegate effectively • Ability to align with Australian business hours, approximately 9 AM–5 PM Monday to Friday • Disclosure of any existing ongoing roles or client work • LinkedIn profile must reflect the engagement as “Independent Contractor” • Nice-to-have: 3+ years supporting Australian SMEs • Nice-to-have: CPA, CA or equivalent qualification • Nice-to-have: Fathom, Syft Analytics, Translucent.io or QuickBooks Online • Nice-to-have: Advanced Xero experience • Nice-to-have: 13-week cash-flow forecasting, profitability, pricing, margin or capacity modelling • Nice-to-have: Dashboard, KPI and CFO/Board reporting experience • Nice-to-have: Client management-meeting experience • Nice-to-have: Training or mentoring junior finance staff • Nice-to-have: Practical AI experience using ChatGPT, Claude or similar tools • Nice-to-have: Microsoft automation experience • Nice-to-have: Process documentation, standardisation or productisation experience

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home • Flexibility in how you manage your time as a contractor • Career progression opportunities toward Senior Commercial Management Accountant, Senior CFO/Fractional CFO, team leadership, specialist and innovation pathways • Structured learning pathways based on demonstrated capability • Opportunity to mentor, train and lead developing finance professionals • Opportunity to contribute to CFO methodologies, learning systems and AI/finance innovation • Opportunity to grow capability, influence, remuneration and leadership responsibility