- Join our highly awarded Australian full-service digital marketing agency.
- Play a key role in keeping Rocket's finance engine running smoothly.
- Permanent/fulltime role + day-shift + comprehensive health benefits + above standard leaves and more.
Rocket, an Australian digital marketing agency, is seeking an experienced Bookkeeper to join our team. We have long-term team members in both Australia and the Philippines.
About The Opportunity
We are looking for a proactive, detail-oriented Bookkeeper based in the Philippines to join our internal finance team. You will be the right hand to our Sydney-based Financial Accountant, acting as the engine room that keeps our day-to-day bookkeeping and finance operations running smoothly.
In addition to these core bookkeeping responsibilities, you will be responsible for a number of non-financial operational tasks and processes important to the smooth running of the agency.
What You'll Be Doing
- Day-to-Day Bookkeeping: Owning daily bank and credit card reconciliations in Xero, processing supplier bills, raising customer invoices, and keeping our AP and AR queues current.
- Month-End Support: Preparing accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations, assembling management reporting packs, and preparing BAS workpapers for review.
- Debtor Follow-Ups: Running templated debtor communications and statement runs, and preparing escalation lists for others in the team.
- Process Execution: Running defined weekly and monthly processes outside the accounting system, including extracting data from internal and external systems.
- Administrative Excellence: Keeping financial records clean and current, maintaining documentation, and ensuring no small detail falls through the cracks in our daily operations.
- Ad Hoc VA Support: From time to time, supporting the agency with discrete, well-defined tasks routed through an agreed request process.
About You
- Process Disciplined: You love a clean process, a tidy checklist, and a reconciled ledger. You take pride in clean books and error-free work.
- Detail Obsessed: You catch the miscoded transactions, the duplicate bills and the broken formulas before they cause problems downstream.
- Comfortable Speaking Up: You're willing to flag when something looks wrong rather than process it because you were told to.
- A Follow-Through Expert: You aren't afraid to politely but firmly chase suppliers, clients or colleagues to ensure things get resolved.
- Service-Minded: You enjoy being helpful across a variety of tasks and don't mind switching gears when needed.
- Tech-Savvy: You're confident in Xero and Google Sheets, and pick up new platforms quickly.
Experience Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of bookkeeping experience, with at least 2 years servicing Australian clients using Xero.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Financial Management, or a related field.
- Xero: Xero Certified (verifiable on Xero's directory) is an advantage.
- Australian GST & BAS: Hands-on experience preparing BAS and a solid working knowledge of Australian GST.
- Tools: Strong Google Sheets skills (lookups, pivots, formulas) & Xero required.
- Excellent English Communication: You will be communicating daily with our Sydney-based team and need to be confident, clear and concise (verbal and written).
- Understanding of the Australian Market: Previous experience working with Australian clients or colleagues (or similar countries) is required.
Great Benefits
On top of your salary and government-mandated benefits, here are other exciting benefits you can look forward to:
- Work remotely
- Work from home set-up provided for you if needed
- 20 paid leave credits / year
- HMO coverage great benefits package with iCare plus 1 dependent
- Rewards access to great employee recognition programs, anniversary, birthday vouchers and more.
- Work day-shift
- Fixed Saturday and Sunday days off with no overtime required
- Diverse learning & growth opportunities
About Rocket
Rocket is widely regarded as one of Australia's leading independent digital marketing agencies.
We're an award-winning agency of around 65 digital marketing and creative specialists who work with a mix of medium and large businesses to drive leads and sales through digital channels. We're a Google Premier Partner, Meta Business Partner, Bing Partner and a HubSpot Platinum Partner.
In recent years, we've been multiple winners at the AMI Marketing Excellence Awards, B&T Awards, APAC Search Awards, SEMRush Search Awards and the AFR Best Place to Work Awards.
Our Culture
No games, politics, or cliques - just a great bunch of people who work hard to make our clients happy. Here are a few of the benefits of working at Rocket:
- Our #1 value is No Jerks. Expect a welcoming and always supportive environment.
- Skilled Managers at every level to tailor your career progression
- Flexible working. We value work-life balance.
- We provide the equipment for your WFH setup
- Regular team and company events
How to apply
If you like what you've read, then we'd love to have you apply for the role via LinkedIn. Thanks, and good luck!
