Senior AU Accountant – Finance

🕒 August 19

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 A$1.8k - A$2.5k / month

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

👻 Ghost score 29%

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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

• Take primary responsibility for day-to-day accounts payable, including invoice entry, coding, verification, processing, supplier reconciliations, and payment preparation. • Manage supplier payment runs in Australian dollars and foreign currencies, payment schedules, and upcoming cash requirements. • Issue customer invoices and credit notes, allocate receipts, manage debtor collections, and escalate overdue accounts and disputes. • Process end-to-end Australian payroll, including timesheets, overtime, allowances, deductions, leave, starters, terminations, payroll journals, Single Touch Payroll, and superannuation. • Maintain the general ledger and complete bank, credit card, payroll, clearing, fixed asset, intercompany, and balance sheet reconciliations. • Prepare month-end journals, support month-end close, draft profit and loss reporting, and provide variance analysis. • Support BAS/GST, FBT, year-end, audit, and external accountant requirements. • Maintain project financial information; track revenue, costs, commitments, forecasts, and gross margins. • Prepare project reporting and dashboards for Project Managers and leadership, analyze performance, investigate variances, and identify cost or margin risks. • Support project close-outs, final margin analysis, and identification of unbilled revenue or margin leakage. • Apply financial controls, approval limits, segregation of duties, audit trails, and documentation requirements. • Improve finance workflows and reduce manual processes using accounting systems, Excel, automation, and appropriate technology. • Maintain workpapers and process documentation. • Act as a finance contact for Australian customers, suppliers, Project Managers, and internal stakeholders. • Work with the Senior Accountant, Directors, Project Managers, Sales, Procurement, Warehouse & Logistics, HR, and Administration teams. • Participate in finance and project meetings and follow actions through to completion.

🎯 Requirements

• Accounting or finance degree. • At least 5 years of relevant accounting experience. • Proven experience in a mid-to-senior-level accounting role. • Demonstrated experience taking ownership of Australian accounts payable and accounts receivable processes. • Strong experience with AP data entry, invoice processing, coding, supplier reconciliations, and payment preparation. • Experience with Australian payroll, including STP and superannuation requirements. • Strong general ledger, reconciliation, and month-end accounting experience. • Experience with foreign-currency payments and bank reconciliations. • Practical experience with project accounting, job costing, project forecasting, or margin analysis. • Experience in shopfitting, construction, installations, logistics, manufacturing, or another project-based environment is highly desirable. • Strong understanding of financial controls and accounting processes. • Advanced Excel skills and strong accounting/ERP system capability. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Excellent attention to detail and numerical accuracy. • Ability to work independently and take ownership of finance responsibilities. • Strong written and verbal English communication skills. • Comfortable communicating directly with Australian customers, suppliers, Project Managers, and internal stakeholders. • Able to work effectively within Australian business hours.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home • Flexible time management as an independent contractor, while aligning with Australian business hours as required • Independent Contractor Agreement engagement