Senior Bookkeeper

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🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

💵 ₱75k - ₱85k / month

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🏫 Bookkeeping and Clerks

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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

• Perform bank and credit card reconciliations, daily transaction coding, accounts payable, and accounts receivable • Process payroll end-to-end, including Single Touch Payroll reporting and superannuation compliance • Investigate unreconciled items, transaction discrepancies, and lingering exceptions • Reconcile clearing accounts and resolve hanging balances • Reconcile payroll, superannuation, GST, and PAYG withholding accounts against statutory records • Reconcile commercial loans, hire purchases, and chattel mortgages against lender statements and amortization schedules • Prepare month-end accruals, prepayments, and supporting schedules • Assemble complete, audit-ready, well-documented workpaper files for onshore accountant review • Take ownership of messy, historical, or neglected Xero files and bring them up to date • Trace opening-balance discrepancies, catch-up reconciliations, missing fixed assets, and unrecorded financing arrangements • Restructure and standardize charts of accounts and reclassify miscoded transactions • Design, build, and optimize automated bank rules and live feeds • Evaluate historical accounting treatments and correct legacy errors • Prepare BAS and IAS calculations with fully reconciled workpapers for senior review • Reconcile ATO Integrated Client Accounts and resolve variances • Assemble EOFY workpapers covering cash, debtors, creditors, fixed assets, payroll, GST, and debt facilities • Progressively adopt the firm’s integrated bookkeeping-to-tax workflow and take on higher-level accounting preparation

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 2–4 years of direct, hands-on experience supporting Australian small businesses or working within an Australian bookkeeping/accounting practice • Advanced operational proficiency in Xero, particularly with navigating unmanaged files, setting up rules, and performing historical reconciliations • Solid working command of Australian bookkeeping tax mechanics: GST treatment, BAS/IAS preparation, PAYG withholding, STP, and superannuation guarantee obligations • Strong critical thinking skills with an ability to dig beneath surface-level figures, trace imbalances to their source, and propose practical corrections • High level of self-direction and time management, capable of prioritizing deliverables across multiple client files without requiring constant supervision • Excellent written English skills and high attention to detail when compiling notes, queries, and documentation for onshore accountants • Preferred: practical experience with Xero Workpapers, Xero Practice Manager (XPM), FYI Docs, Hubdoc, or Dext • Preferred: direct exposure to ATO portal navigation and ATO statement reconciliations • Preferred: familiarity with Companies, Trusts, Partnerships, division 7A loans, trust distributions, and asset finance schedules • Preferred: formal tertiary qualification in Accountancy, Philippine CPA licensure, or active Xero Advisor/Payroll certifications • Ability to verify source documents and challenge improper legacy setups • Ability to resolve routine roadblocks independently and escalate issues appropriately • Proactive attitude toward adopting AI tools and modern practice management software

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