Senior Bookkeeper

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

📋 Description

• Conduct reconciliations for bank accounts and credit cards, along with daily transaction coding, accounts payable, and accounts receivable tasks.

• Manage payroll processes from start to finish, including Single Touch Payroll reporting and compliance with superannuation obligations.

• Explore and resolve unreconciled items, discrepancies in transactions, and outstanding exceptions.

• Reconcile clearing accounts and address any outstanding balances.

• Ensure payroll, superannuation, GST, and PAYG withholding accounts are reconciled against statutory records.

• Reconcile commercial loans, hire purchases, and chattel mortgages with lender statements and amortization schedules.

• Prepare month-end accruals, prepayments, and necessary supporting schedules.

• Compile thorough, audit-ready workpaper files for review by onshore accountants.

• Take initiative in organizing and updating disorganized, historical, or neglected Xero files.

• Identify and trace discrepancies in opening balances, perform catch-up reconciliations, locate missing fixed assets, and document unrecorded financing arrangements.

• Revise and standardize charts of accounts while reclassifying misclassified transactions.

• Create, develop, and enhance automated bank rules and live feeds.

• Assess past accounting practices and rectify any legacy errors.

• Calculate BAS and IAS with comprehensively reconciled workpapers for senior review.

• Reconcile ATO Integrated Client Accounts and address any variances.

• Compile EOFY workpapers that encompass cash, debtors, creditors, fixed assets, payroll, GST, and debt facilities.

• Gradually embrace the firm’s integrated bookkeeping-to-tax workflow and take on more advanced accounting preparations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Approximately 2–4 years of hands-on experience supporting Australian small businesses or working within an Australian bookkeeping/accounting firm.

• Advanced operational proficiency with Xero, especially in navigating unmanaged files, establishing rules, and executing historical reconciliations.

• Strong understanding of Australian bookkeeping tax mechanics, including GST treatment, BAS/IAS preparation, PAYG withholding, STP, and superannuation guarantee obligations.

• Excellent critical thinking abilities to analyze figures, trace discrepancies to their sources, and suggest practical solutions.

• High degree of self-direction and time management skills, capable of prioritizing tasks across multiple client files without continuous supervision.

• Exceptional written English skills and meticulous attention to detail when preparing notes, queries, and documentation for onshore accountants.

• Preferred: hands-on experience with Xero Workpapers, Xero Practice Manager (XPM), FYI Docs, Hubdoc, or Dext.

• Preferred: direct experience with 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 incorrect legacy setups.

• Capability to independently resolve routine obstacles and escalate issues as needed.

• Proactive mindset towards adopting AI tools and contemporary practice management software.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

• Flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.

• Access to advanced accounting software and tools.

• Supportive team environment focused on collaboration and knowledge sharing.