Expert Accountant for Financial Operations

Our company is seeking an experienced Accounting and Financial Operations Specialist to join our team.

Job Role: Accounting and Financial Operations Specialist

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in accounting, financial operations, and payroll processing. They will be responsible for managing accounts communications and documentation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, reconciliations, and reporting.

This position involves operating in complex multi-platform digital environments and executing complex tasks with multiple decision trees. The successful candidate will be able to change gears, stop, start, and switch tasks to respond to changing priorities while working quickly and methodically.

• Manage and maintain automations
• Understand how ledgers are managed and maintained for each client
• Identify anomalies or omissions, and request documentation effectively
• Assign Transactions to General Ledger Accounts
• Assign GL codes consistently and correctly
• Apply GST correctly, consistently and critically
• Identify suppliers that may not have been treated correctly
• Manage and Clear AP and AR Ledgers
• Review AP and AR for 'incorrect' wrong or outstanding items
• Identify POS and FOREX transactions and resolve them
• Communicate and understand ongoing supplier / customer issues.
• Process payrolls in Employment Hero Payroll including:
  • Timesheet based payrolls
  • Award Interpretation
  • Termination and Redundancy payments
  • Complex automations
  • Bonus, Commissions and Allowances
  • Superannuation
  • Salary Sacrifice
  • Expense Reimbursements
  • On and Offboard employees
• Manage Employment Hero Payroll and Xero ledger integrations
• Manage and support client operations and processes
• Provide payroll support to clients and employees
• Reconcile Ledger Transactions
• Reconcile Bank Statement Records
• Reconcile Payroll to Ledger
• Reconcile and Manage Payroll Control Accounts
• Reconcile GST
• Reconcile and Manage finance schedules
• Reconcile and Manage ATO control accounts
• Process and Manage Amortisation, Accruals and Depreciation
• Produce and maintain full, complete and correct balance sheets
• Investigate, troubleshoot and correct unreconciled accounts
• Check And Process purchase orders
• Operate and manage inventory platforms
• Complete forms and template based documents
• Create and Manage invoices
• Input data to different sources
• Meet and discuss Transactions with Clients
• Request and update documentation from Clients
• Understand and Manage each client environment
• Know And Understand what each client 'does' and how they 'work'
• Lookfor and identify opportunities, or errors / omissions, and discuss them promptly with your Client Manager
• Support your Client Manager with pro active information and timely outcomes
• Understand the requirement of each task and manage estimated times
• Reachout for support and input regularly and repeatedly, especially if going overtime
• Work in a Deadline-oriented / fast paced environment with multiple, competing and changing priorities
• Be proficient with Employment Hero Payroll and Xero
• Understand what and why you are doing a particular task, and how that task effects the experience of the client and impacts clients' environment
• Understand instructions, systems, environments and outcomes quickly
• Operate in complex multi platform digital environments, and execute complex tasks with multiple decision trees
• Change gears, stop, start and switch tasks to respond to changing priorities while working quickly and methodically
• Feedback and ask questions when you don't understand completely, or feel there are omissions or opportunities to improve
• Communicate clearly and effectively in both written and verbal formats
• Work Within a team, support your teammates and fight for our vision
• Understand and apply Australian GST, Accounting and Payroll principles critically and consistently
• See and understand patterns, trends and identify inconsistencies
• Recognise errors, missing information and things that 'don't look right' given the information you have, and raise those issues with your team