Accounting Production Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Senior Client Manager to ensure efficient workflow management, effective prioritization, and timely delivery of accounting and bookkeeping tasks at a consistently high standard.

• Provide daily leadership and technical guidance to junior, intermediate, and senior accountants, as well as bookkeepers with varying levels of experience and from different locations.

• Take ownership of review standards by ensuring that financial statements, tax returns, BAS, payroll, and related outputs reach a near-complete state (approximately 90–100%) before being reviewed by the Senior Client Manager.

• Invest significantly in capability enhancement by training, mentoring, and developing team members to boost technical accuracy, efficiency, and professional confidence.

• Enhance team capabilities in financial reporting, taxation, bookkeeping, and payroll through structured guidance and ongoing development.

• Collaborate closely with the Assistant Client Manager to improve technical consistency, reinforce best practices, and elevate the overall quality of output across the team.

• Oversee a diverse production team consisting of Senior, Intermediate, and Graduate Accountants, along with Bookkeepers working in both onshore and offshore environments.

• Proactively identify recurring errors, skill gaps, and inefficiencies, translating them into targeted coaching interventions and process enhancements.

• Manage workflow allocation and prioritization, ensuring effective distribution of work and timely delivery within required deadlines.

• Balance hands-on technical support with a strong emphasis on fostering autonomy, ownership, and accountability within the team.

• Work closely with accounting and bookkeeping staff to address complex technical issues and maintain output quality.

• Occasionally participate in strategic initiatives alongside the Senior Client Manager, including client discussions, software decisions, tax planning input, and structural considerations.

• Act as a crucial operational anchor within the production function, ensuring that output is reliable, scalable, and consistently of high quality.

• Promote consistency in the application of processes, technical frameworks, and operational standards across the entire team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of accounting experience, including exposure to review work, team mentoring, and production or client service environments.

• Strong technical accounting and taxation skills, with the ability to deliver work to a near-final review standard.

• Experience in preparing Individual Income Tax Returns (including investment income), Income Tax Variations, Tax Planning, and FBT returns.

• Proficiency in preparing Financial Statements and Income Tax Returns for Sole Traders, Partnerships, Trusts, Companies, and SMSFs.

• In-depth knowledge of Australian tax legislation, including Division 7A, deductions, payroll tax, WorkCover, Stamp Duty, FBT, depreciation rules, SGC obligations, franking credits, trust elections, and TPAR requirements.

• Experience in preparing and/or reviewing Activity Statements, including GST, PAYGW, PAYGI, WET, FTC, FBT instalments, and GST on imports.

• Extensive payroll expertise including terminations, redundancies, salary packaging (including novated leases), allowances, bonuses, commissions, overtime, and leave entitlements.

• Understanding of Portable Long Service Leave obligations.

• Strong capability in Xero as the primary accounting platform.

• Proficient with Xero Practice Manager, XBert, Dext, and Microsoft Office Suite.

• Familiarity with practice operations and workflow tools such as Practice Protect, Slack, Syft, Ignition, 3CX, ChatGPT, Monday.com, and the ATO Portal.

• Exposure to broader accounting and business systems including QuickBooks, MYOB, BGL, Now Infinity, CanYou, Employment Hero, Odoo, CloudPayroll, Fathom, Deputy, and Float.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Opportunities for professional development and advancement.

• Flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.

• Supportive and collaborative team environment.

• Access to the latest technology and resources.