Junior Accountant

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November 7

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UpGuard

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Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

UpGuard is a comprehensive third-party risk and attack surface management platform. The company provides solutions for vendor risk management, including features like automated risk assessments, security ratings, and data leak detection. UpGuard's platform integrates AI to enhance security questionnaires and provides real-time alerts, ensuring continuous monitoring and complete visibility of security postures. Its services are utilized by industries such as financial services, technology, and healthcare to secure customer data and streamline trust management process with advanced cybersecurity tools.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Lead Core Month-End Activities: Prepare and post standard journal entries (including accruals and prepayments) and support the timely month-end closing process. • Manage Complex Reconciliations: Perform detailed reconciliations, focusing on inter-entity balances and key general ledger accounts beyond basic cash and bank activity. • Ensure Expense Compliance: Meticulously review and verify employee and vendor expense submissions across platforms (e.g., Brex, Airwallex), ensuring compliance with company policies and correct cost coding. • Master Expense System Integrity: Reconcile card transactions and reimbursements between all expense and accounting platforms (Brex, Airwallex, Xero) to ensure accurate posting to the general ledger. • Monitor Allowances and Spend: Assist in tracking and monitoring specific employee allowances (e.g., WFH, lifestyle subsidies) as part of the regular expense review process. • Drive Problem-Solving: Identify and determine corrective actions for routine discrepancies, escalating unusual variances or system issues with clear documentation. • Support Process Improvement: Actively suggest and implement enhancements to expense workflows and reconciliation processes to boost efficiency and automation. • Utilise Finance Technology: Apply and leverage AI-powered tools and automation features within financial platforms to improve reconciliation efficiency and data validation. • Analyse Financial Data: Begin interpreting data trends and irregularities to provide summary reports of expense activity, highlighting key anomalies for senior review. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Coordinate with teams like HR and Operations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of necessary financial information. • Maintain Audit Readiness: Prepare accurate, well-documented workpapers and supporting schedules that fully satisfy management and future audit requirements. • Uphold Control Standards: Ensure that all assigned tasks and schedules are completed accurately and on time, strictly adhering to internal controls and documentation standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Financial Acumen: A solid understanding of bookkeeping and basic accounting principles, including how journal entries directly impact financial statements. • System Proficiency: Proven experience utilising and navigating key accounting and expense management systems (e.g., Xero, Brex, Airwallex). • Data Analysis: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for efficient data validation and analytical tasks. • Work Experience: 2–3 years of accounting or bookkeeping experience preferred (or equivalent internship exposure). • Problem-Solving: The ability to proactively investigate discrepancies and recommend effective, data-backed solutions. • Accountability: A strong sense of ownership over assigned work, consistently ensuring accuracy and meeting critical deadlines. • Adaptability: The capacity to quickly adjust to new systems, processes, and automation tools as the business evolves. • Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills for providing clear updates and concise explanations of financial variances. • Collaboration: A history of working effectively and positively with team members and cross-functional departments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Our employees use this for financial, physical, and mental well-being • WFH set-up allowance: To ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard • $1,500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development, all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance • Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: Time to recharge your batteries • 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role • Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carer’s leave • Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance • Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their roles