Bookkeeper

Private Advertiser; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser is seeking a hands-on Bookkeeper to own the routine finance cycle across multiple entities. You will manage ledgers, payroll, and month-end schedules, ensuring timely and accurate postings for each project and cost code.

You will review the work of an Accounts Payable Officer, run weekly timesheet-based payroll, and help shape the ERP system during deployment in October. This role requires ownership and problem-solving across entities.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on bookkeeping experience across multiple entities and cost centres.
• Proven payroll processing experience including payroll tax, WorkCover and superannuation reconciliations.
• Experience allocating costs by project and cost code across entities.
• Strong grasp of accounts payable, accounts receivable and payment-run controls.
• Experience with MYOB AccountRight or MYOB Acumatica and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Daily bank reconciliations and investigation of unreconciled items.
• Oversee accounts payable and receivable processing; resolve exceptions.
• Allocate transactions to correct entity, project, cost code and GL account.
• Process weekly payroll, including timesheets and employee changes.
• Prepare payment runs and remittances for review and approval.
• Review AP Officer's processing and supplier reconciliations.
• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations and routine journals.
• Maintain depreciation, prepayments, fixed assets and finance schedules.
• Payroll tax, WorkCover and superannuation reconciliations.
• Project trust reconciliations and supporting compliance reporting.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Payroll processing

Multi-entity accounting

ERP systems

Tools

MYOB AccountRight

MYOB Acumatica

Excel

Job description

We have never chased headlines. We have built our reputation where it matters most, among people who value trust, grit and results, on infrastructure projects delivered nationally. Our directors bring more than four decades of hands-on experience between them, and our sites still run the way they do: loyalty over ego, action over words.

The last twelve months have been a tear. The pipeline is strong, the number of entities and projects has grown with it, and the finance team that carried all of it is small, capable and stretched. A new ERP is on the way, and we want the right people in place before it lands, not after. Day to day it means something simpler. The numbers have to be right, on time and in the right place, because the people running projects rely on them. That is the work this Bookkeeper role exists to own.

The Role

Reporting to our Financial Controller, this Bookkeeper role owns the routine finance cycle across a multi-entity group. You will keep the ledgers clean, the payroll right and the month-end schedules ready, and you will be the person who makes sure every transaction lands against the right entity, project and cost code.

It is a hands-on seat with real independence. You will review the work of our Accounts Payable Officer, run weekly payroll for a workforce that lives on timesheets, and elevate the genuinely complex matters rather than everything. Join us in October and you will also be part of user acceptance testing on our new ERP, a rare chance to shape the system you will be working in.

Duties will include, but not be limited to:

Daily bank reconciliations and investigation of unreconciled items

Oversight of accounts payable and receivable processing, resolving exceptions as they arise

Allocating transactions to the correct entity, project, cost code and general ledger account

Processing weekly payroll, including timesheets, leave, employee changes and new starters

Preparing payment runs and remittances for review and approval

Reviewing the Accounts Payable Officer's processing and supplier reconciliations

Monthly balance sheet reconciliations, routine journals and intercompany reconciliations

Maintaining prepayment, depreciation, fixed asset and finance schedules

Payroll tax, WorkCover and superannuation reconciliations

Project trust reconciliations and supporting compliance reporting

Credit card reconciliations and chasing missing receipts

Preparing audit schedules and supporting month-end reporting, budgets and forecasts

About You

You are the kind of Bookkeeper who cannot leave a reconciliation with a difference sitting in it. You have run the full cycle before, payroll included. You are at your best when the work is yours to own and nobody has to chase it. You are comfortable moving between several entities without losing track of which dollar belongs where, and confident enough to pick up the phone to a site supervisor about a missing timesheet or receipt. You take pride in handing over schedules that do not need checking twice, and you would rather fix a process than work around it.

Skills & Experience

To be effective in this Bookkeeper role, you will likely bring:

Substantial hands-on bookkeeping experience, including reconciliations, journals and month-end preparation

Proven payroll processing experience, including payroll tax, WorkCover and superannuation reconciliations

Experience working across multiple entities and allocating costs by project and cost code

A strong grasp of accounts payable, accounts receivable and payment-run controls

Experience with MYOB AccountRight, MYOB Acumatica or a comparable ERP, and strong Excel skills

Experience in construction or another project-based environment, and in reviewing an AP officer's work, well regarded

What's on Offer

A hands-on seat with genuine ownership, in a business that is growing and investing in its finance function

The chance to test and shape a new ERP from the inside, experience few people at this level get

An easy commute from Brisbane's south side and the northern Gold Coast, running against the traffic

A competitive package aligned to the experience you bring, for a Bookkeeper who wants to own the cycle rather than just process it