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Pear Tree.

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

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

• Manage day-to-day bookkeeping including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and bank reconciliations. • Process supplier invoices, employee expense claims, and credit card reconciliations. • Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts, ensuring accurate and timely data entry. • Prepare and lodge BAS/GST returns and manage payroll tax obligations. • Manage payroll processes and ensure compliance with relevant awards, employment agreements, and statutory obligations including PAYG, superannuation, payroll tax, and WorkCover. • Prepare and deliver comprehensive monthly business reports including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statements. • Produce an executive-level business performance report each month with clear narrative, insights, and recommendations — not just numbers. • Deliver variance analysis against budget and forecast with actionable commentary for leadership. • Produce project-level financial reporting across the full infrastructure project portfolio. • Present financial performance insights to the Director and senior leadership team. • Own and lead the quarterly forecasting cycle across the business — revenue, costs, resources, and cash. • Prepare and present quarterly forecast packs to leadership, incorporating actuals-to-date, pipeline visibility, and updated assumptions. • Maintain a rolling 12-month and 24-month forecast model, refreshed each quarter with updated project, pipeline, and operational data. • Identify risks and opportunities within each quarterly cycle and present clear scenarios to support decision-making. • Build and maintain detailed revenue forecasting models by project, contract, and business segment. • Translate project pipeline and contract milestones into forward revenue schedules. • Align revenue recognition to accounting standards, including percentage-of-completion and milestone-based billing. • Work with project managers to validate forecast assumptions and update revenue projections as contracts progress. • Monitor and report on revenue actuals vs. forecast, flagging material variances promptly. • Develop and own a comprehensive cost forecasting model across labour, materials, subcontractors, overheads, and corporate costs. • Track project cost performance against budgets and updated forecasts at a granular level. • Identify cost overruns, margin erosion, and budget risks early — with clear analysis and recommendations. • Prepare work-in-progress (WIP) schedules and ensure cost accruals are accurately reflected in management accounts. • Deliver cost variance analysis with root cause commentary each month and quarter. • Build and maintain a resource forecast model covering staffing, subcontractor capacity, and project resourcing needs. • Translate project pipeline and delivery schedules into forward resource requirements and cost implications. • Work with project and operations teams to align resource plans with financial forecasts. • Flag resourcing constraints, cost pressures, or capacity gaps to leadership with recommended actions. • Support headcount planning and workforce cost modelling as the business scales. • Support the Director and leadership team in the annual strategic planning cycle — translating strategic priorities into financial plans. • Build financial models for growth scenarios, new project opportunities, tendering, and capital allocation decisions. • Contribute to board reporting and investor-ready financial packs, including KPI dashboards and forward-looking financial summaries. • Provide commercial analysis to support business development decisions — pricing, margins, bid/no-bid, and investment cases. • Assist with ad hoc strategic analysis and financial modelling as the business grows and evolves. • Establish and maintain project cost centres and job costing structures. • Track project costs against budgets, including labour, materials, subcontractors, and overheads. • Analyse project margins and flag cost overruns or commercial risks to project managers and the Director. • Support claims management, progress billing, and variation tracking on active contracts. • Prepare and maintain weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts to support operational decision-making. • Monitor debtor and creditor positions, ensuring timely collections and payments. • Manage working capital to support project delivery and business operations. • Support banking and financing relationships with accurate, timely reporting. • Own the integration between Procore (project management platform) and Xero (accounting platform) — ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable data flow between systems. • Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the Procore–Xero integration, working with vendors and technical resources as required. • Establish data governance processes to ensure project financial data in Procore aligns with the general ledger in Xero. • Identify and resolve discrepancies between Procore project cost data and Xero financial records. • Train and support project managers and operations team members on Procore financial data entry and coding disciplines. • Drive continuous improvement of the integration setup as company's project portfolio and business complexity grows. • Support the design and implementation of company's finance systems and processes from the ground up. • Establish financial controls, policies, and procedures appropriate for a growing infrastructure business. • Own and continuously improve the finance function — systems, reporting cadences, and workflows. • Liaise with external accountants and auditors as required. • Drive automation and efficiency in financial processes as the business scales.

🎯 Requirements

• CPA or CA qualified (or equivalent international qualification). • 7–12 years of management accounting experience, ideally within construction, infrastructure, energy, or project-based businesses. • A minimum of 3 years' experience with the Xero accounting package. • Demonstrated experience in quarterly and annual forecasting — revenue, cost, and resource dimensions. • Strong project accounting background: job costing, WIP management, margin analysis, and progress billing. • Proven experience producing board-level or executive business reports with narrative insights, not just financial statements. • Experience supporting strategic planning processes and building financial models for business decision-making. • Proficiency in Xero and advanced Excel / Google Sheets. • Hands-on experience managing or working with Procore–Xero integration (or similar construction/project management to accounting integrations). • Excellent written and spoken English — able to communicate clearly with Australian leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary of PHP 120,000–190,000 per month (depending on experience). • Full-time, permanent offshore role with a fast-growing Australian infrastructure business. • Genuine career progression — clear path to Finance Manager / Head of Finance as the company scales. • Strategic, senior-level work — you will be a true commercial partner, not just a transactional accountant. • Direct access to Australian leadership — your insights drive real business decisions. • Opportunity to build the finance function of a high-growth infrastructure business from the ground up. • Meaningful work supporting Australia's energy transition — substations, powerlines, BESS, solar, and wind.