Bookkeeper

seek.com.au; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of full cycle

ERP implementation experience

Easy Gold Coast commute

Competitive package

Job summary

seek.com.au is seeking a hands‑on Bookkeeper to own the routine finance cycle across a multi‑entity group on site near the Gold Coast. You will keep ledgers clean, run weekly payroll and ensure transactions post to the correct entity, project and cost code.

The role offers independence and an opportunity to shape ERP while supporting month‑end reporting. You should have extensive reconciliations, payroll experience, and strong Excel and ERP skills.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on bookkeeping experience across the full finance cycle.
• Experience with payroll including payroll tax and superannuation reconciliations.
• Ability to allocate costs by project and manage multiple entities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain ledgers across multiple entities and ensure accurate cost allocations.
• Run weekly payroll and manage timesheets and changes.
• Prepare payment runs and supplier reconciliations for approval.
• Perform month-end reconciliations, journals and intercompany reconciliation.
• Assist with ERP testing and user acceptance during implementation.

Skills

Reconciliations

Payroll processing

Multi-entity accounting

AP/AR controls

Excel

ERP systems

Tools

MYOB AccountRight

MYOB Acumatica

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 you will be the person who makes sure every transaction lands against the right entity, project and cost code. 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

• 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