As a Senior Accountant, you will be delivering end-to-end Australian accounting, tax compliance, and advisory support for individuals and SMEs. You will prepare financial statements, manage tax lodgments, support forecasting and KPI reporting, oversee workflows, and provide commercially sound insights while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.
Employment Type: Full-time
Shift: Day shift (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM AEST), aligned with Australian business hours (core overlap required) | Shifting
Work Setup: Permanent work from home
Responsibilities
Financial Accounting and Tax Compliance
- Prepare year-end and interim financial statements for individuals and small to medium entities with complete working papers and clear review notes
- Prepare income tax returns for individuals, sole traders, companies, and trusts, including related schedules, and ensure consistency with financial statements and supporting documents
- Prepare and review BAS/IAS/GST work and ensure reconciliation integrity between accounting files, GST coding, and lodged positions
- Prepare FBT and CGT calculations, including applicable concessions
- Maintain a disciplined compliance calendar and track outstanding information, dependencies, and lodgement deadlines
- Identify and deliver tax planning opportunities and translate legislation into practical, commercially sound outcomes while managing risk and compliance obligations
Payroll, Super, and Employment-Related Compliance Support
- Oversee payroll compliance tasks across a client base, including STP processes, payroll reconciliations, and payroll tax support
- Reconcile wages, PAYG withholding, and superannuation obligations and resolve discrepancies with a clear audit trail
- Support client queries on payroll obligations and reporting and escalate matters that require advice or sign-off
Accounting and Advisory Support
- Analyse business performance through management reporting, trend analysis, and commercial interpretation
- Support preparation of budgets and forecasts
- Support preparation of cashflow forecasts
- Support preparation of KPI packs and benchmarking summaries
- Support preparation of performance reports for owners and directors
- Contribute to business structuring documentation and analysis
- Contribute to succession planning support through financial and scenario inputs
- Identify trends and weaknesses and present recommendations to strengthen business performance
- Provide grant-related financial collation and inputs
- Escalate risks and opportunities with clear recommendations
Client Management and Communication
- Manage day-to-day workflow communication with clients through email and scheduled calls
- Request missing information early, track follow-ups, and maintain clear documentation of client interactions and decisions
- Explain technical matters in plain English and draft client-ready summaries for Director review
- Work closely with Directors on complex matters, advisory work, and high-risk or high-value clients
- Provide Director-ready analysis, summaries, and recommendations
Corporate and Administrative Compliance Support
- Support company compliance tasks, including ASIC-related documentation and record maintenance
- Support ATO payment plan administration and compliance status tracking and escalate urgent risks to Directors
Quality, Systems, and Continuous Improvement
- Maintain high-quality working papers, templates, and file notes in line with internal standards
- Identify recurring issues and propose practical solutions
- Support process improvements, including software integrations, standardised templates, workflow streamlining, and turnaround-time improvement
- Contribute to internal process documentation, checklists, and quality assurance improvements
Team Contribution
- Act as senior internal support and coach team members on reconciliations, BAS hygiene, working paper standards, and common compliance issues
- Escalate early when a job is at risk
- Prepare and deliver internal technical training sessions on tax, compliance, systems, or processes
- Support and mentor offshore and other team members through structured knowledge sharing
- Review work prepared by team members and ensure technical accuracy, compliance, and consistency before client release or lodgement
Qualifications
- CA or CPA qualification is preferred
- 5+ years of experience in Australian public practice or equivalent outsourced delivery supporting Australian clients
- Strong capability across Australian tax compliance workflows, including financial statements, tax returns, and BAS/IAS
- Demonstrated knowledge of ATO processes and compliance requirements, includingBAS/IAS/GSTlodgement cycles and common risk areas
- Advanced proficiency inXeroand at least one ofMYOBorQuickBooks
- Advanced Excel skills for working papers, reconciliations, basic modelling, and structured formatting
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills with client-ready clarity
- Sound judgement with the ability to determine when to resolve issues independently and when to escalate
About the Client
Our client isa forward-thinking Australian accounting and advisory firm that partners closely with individuals and growing SMEs to deliver more than just compliance.With over 35 years of combined leadership experience across public practice and industry, they provide tax, accounting, bookkeeping, and business improvement solutions grounded in commercial reality.
They transform complex tax and regulatory requirements into clear, practical strategies that drive better business decisions. Known for their hands-on guidance and strong client relationships, they help businesses move beyond survival toward structured growth, operational efficiency, and long-term financial confidence.
