Senior Accountant – SME Business Services, Tax

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🔥 55 minutes ago

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 ₱100k - ₱150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💲 Accountant / Accounting

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Pear Tree.

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Pear Tree is a Melbourne‑born offshore recruitment and hiring services company that connects Australian, US, and UK businesses directly with skilled offshore professionals (primarily from the Philippines) without agency markups. They provide end-to-end hiring support — sourcing, screening, skills assessments, video interviews, reference checks — and offer payroll, Employer‑of‑Record, and compliance assistance plus a six‑month replacement guarantee. Pear Tree recruits across IT, sales & marketing, finance, creative, admin and operations roles, emphasizing cost savings, direct pay to talent, and secure onboarding workflows.

📋 Description

• Prepare year-end financial statements and income tax returns for companies, trusts, partnerships, sole traders and individuals • Prepare trust returns, review distribution resolutions, and track UPEs and beneficiary entitlements • Handle Division 7A loan identification, minimum yearly repayments and loan schedules as needed • Prepare annual FBT returns and workpapers when required • Prepare BAS/IAS, GST reconciliations, PAYG instalment reviews, year-end STP and superannuation reconciliations • Prepare SMSF annual financial statements, member statements, annual returns, audit packs and liaise with the independent auditor using BGL Simple Fund 360 • Manage ASIC annual reviews, solvency resolutions, company changes and registers using BGL CAS 360 • Perform ATO pre-lodgement checks and reporting through online services for agents • Review and clean up Xero ledgers, including reconciliations, journals, accruals, fixed assets and depreciation • Help implement and run Xero Practice Manager, including jobs, statuses, timesheets and budgets • Prepare Practice Ignition compliance proposals and engagement renewals for Director approval • Draft information requests and client query emails; send routine written follow-ups once established • Prepare tax-planning estimates and workpapers for Director review • From month three, help implement AI-assisted bookkeeping and transaction coding • Maintain standardized, documented workpaper files • Own year-end compliance for a portfolio of Australian SME clients and work directly with the Director

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Accountancy • Strong working knowledge of Australian tax: income tax for companies, trusts, partnerships and individuals; Division 7A; trust taxation and UPEs (including awareness of s100A); FBT; CGT; GST • Hands-on Xero experience • Intermediate+ Excel • Excellent written and spoken English, able to draft client-facing emails with minimal editing • 5–7 years' accounting experience, with a minimum 5 years in Australian public practice • SME business services experience with clients up to approximately $6M turnover • Independently completed full year-end compliance for companies, trusts and individuals • Competent handling of Division 7A and FBT when required • Managed own job list and timesheets in XPM or a similar practice management system • Autonomous, detail-oriented, deadline-disciplined and process-minded • Integrity and strict confidentiality with client data • Willingness to adopt AI tools and act on review feedback • Xero Practice Manager experience highly regarded • BGL Simple Fund 360, BGL CAS 360, Practice Ignition, CPA (Philippines) or CA/CPA ANZ, AI/automation exposure, supervision/review/training experience, and real estate or service-business client experience are advantageous

🏖️ Benefits

• Founding team member: the first hire in an offshore team planned to grow to approx. 5 – you help build it, not just join it • Clear pathway to Tax Manager: formal promotion review at 12 months against defined criteria • Work directly with the Director – fast feedback, real mentoring and visibility of your work • Remote role – work from home anywhere in the Philippines • Varied, technical work: companies, trusts, SMSF and corporate secretarial, with Div 7A and FBT as they arise – build a well-rounded Australian tax skill set • Modern cloud stack (Xero, Xero Practice Manager (being implemented), BGL Simple Fund 360, BGL CAS 360, Practice Ignition) and hands-on involvement in rolling out AI bookkeeping – skills that put you ahead of the market • A growing practice: new clients every week from a proven marketing engine, so your role and responsibilities grow with it • Stable, established firm – operating since 2002 • Competitive, above-market package for the right candidate