Senior Management Accountant | AU Client | WFH

Overview

This role supports the day-to-day finance function for an online learner/instructor marketplace. Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Management Accountant will take primary ownership of transactional accounting and share responsibility for month-end close activities across Australian and UK entities.

Responsibilities

Bookkeeping & Month-End Close

• Maintain finance email inboxes; process supplier invoices, employee reimbursements, and customer receipts accurately and on time.
• Perform daily bank and credit card reconciliations across AU and UK entities.
• Manage AP/AR ageing; prepare payment runs for review, follow up overdue invoices, and resolve supplier and customer queries.
• Prepare and post month-end journals (accruals, prepayments, depreciation).
• Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts and support delivery of the close within the agreed timetable.

Fixed Assets, Intercompany & GL Integrity

• Maintain the fixed asset register.
• Calculate and post monthly depreciation and record asset additions and disposals.
• Reconcile intercompany balances between AU and UK entities, clear in-transit items, and maintain Xero GL integrity (correct coding, GST/VAT treatment, tracking categories).

Reporting & FP&A Support

• Assist with monthly management reporting packs in Xero/Fathom and Google Sheets.
• Draft P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow reports for review.
• Support budgeting and quarterly rolling forecasts by preparing data extracts, variance schedules, and supporting analysis.
• Help maintain the 13-week cash flow forecast.

Compliance & Audit

• Prepare BAS and VAT working papers for review.
• Ensure accurate GST/VAT coding throughout the month and support payroll, superannuation, and PAYG reconciliations.
• Assist with year-end audit preparation by pulling supporting documentation and responding to auditor queries under the direction of the Head of Finance.

Process Improvement & Ad Hoc

• Identify opportunities to streamline transactional and month-end processes.
• Help maintain documentation of accounting policies and procedures.
• Undertake ad hoc finance tasks as directed.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication; able to interact professionally with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and customers.
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership over data accuracy.
• Proactive, problem-solving mindset; willing to ask questions, raise issues early, and contribute to process improvement.
• Well organized; ability to manage competing deadlines and deliver accurate work at pace in a remote environment.
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with a small remote finance team.
• Discreet and trustworthy with confidential financial information.

Education and Technical Knowledge

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy or equivalent.
• Essential: Minimum 6+ years’ hands-on accounting experience covering AP, AR, bank reconciliations, and month-end journal processing.
• Essential: Proven Xero proficiency (including bank feeds, tracking categories, and multi-currency).
• Essential: Solid Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets skills (formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP).

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA qualified or actively progressing toward CPA.
• Experience supporting Australian (BAS/GST) and/or UK (VAT) compliance.
• Exposure to Looker Studio.
• Prior experience with Australian or UK clients/entities, or in a tech, SaaS, or online marketplace environment.

Compensation & Benefits

• HMO, Dental, and Life Insurance for you and one free dependent from day one (with the option to enroll additional dependents).
• Paid leaves: Birthday, Vacation, Medical, and Maternity (up to 6 Vacation Leaves are convertible to cash on your anniversary).
• Employee engagement activities: Year-End Party, Family Day, Team Building, and more.

Location & Work Schedule

• Work arrangement: WFH (work from home)
• Employment type: Full-time
• Core work hours aligned to Australian time
• Scheduled hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (ACDT) | 6:30 AM to 3:30 PM (PH Time)