Group Accountant

Far East Company Pty Ltd; Byron Bay; Remote; AUD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dining credits

Hybrid/remote work potential

Flexibility starts on day one

Weekly team catch-ups

Job summary

Seaside Restaurants is seeking a hands-on Group Accountant to manage the financial operations across our growing hospitality venues. You will oversee bookkeeping, payroll reconciliation, and the preparation of BAS and tax returns, ensuring GL integrity and compliance with hospitality awards.

You will lead internal controls, prepare monthly P&Ls and cash flow metrics per venue, and provide strategic financial guidance to Directors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• Tax agent or BAS agent with the Tax Practitioners Board, or hold the verified qualifications and mentored practical experience.
• Current membership or active progression toward a CPA or CA designation is highly regarded.
• Experience preparing financial statements and income tax returns.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the bookkeeping function, including accounts payable.
• Review and audit multi-site payroll files prepared and executed by the HR Manager. Act as the financial safeguard to ensure total General Ledger alignment, correct Superannuation Guarantee allocations, and compliance with the relevant hospitality award rates.
• Manage the end-to-end preparation, reconciliation, and legal lodgement of quarterly BAS, IAS, and annual company/trust tax returns.
• Monitor changes to ATO rulings, ensuring GST, PAYG, Superannuation Guarantee, and Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) compliance.
• Manage payroll tax compliance across the group.
• Track and distribute weekly “Actual vs Budgeted” Food, Beverage and Labour Cost reports to Venue Managers by close of business every Tuesday.
• Prepare year-end workpapers.
• Deliver precise monthly P&L Statements, Balance Sheets, and cash flow metrics per venue, with reconciliations.
• Provide advisory support to the Directors and Senior Management, including budgets and actual-versus-budget reporting, cash-flow forecasting, KPI setting and analysis, project performance, and opportunities for tax optimisation.
• Design, document and maintain internal controls across accounts payable, payroll and banking, including segregation of duties, approval limits and supplier verification.
• Proven experience implementing financial controls and fraud prevention in a multi-site business.

Skills

A-grade Xero user

AI productivity usage

Interpersonal skills

Ability to explain complex compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

CPA/CA designation highly regarded

Tax agent or BAS agent with TPB

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We're looking for a hands-on, autonomous, in-House Accountant, to manage the financial operations, compliance, and ledger integrity for our growing restaurant group.

With a growing portfolio of hospitality venues, more than 250 employees and further expansion on the horizon, this is an opportunity to take ownership of the group's finance function. You will be entirely responsible for day-to-day ledger management, fortnightly multi-venue payroll reconciliation, and the direct preparation and legal lodgement of quarterly Business Activity Statements (BAS) and preparation for annual Income Tax Returns to be completed by an external Tax Agent

Group Accountant

Seaside Restaurants

Eligibility

• You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this role. Sponsorship is not offered.

The rewards

• An annual salary range of $100,000 to $120,000, plus 12% superannuation, dependent on skills, experience and qualifications.

• The opportunity to work largely from home, ideally based on either the Sunshine Coast or Northern Rivers, NSW.

• Hospitality perks (Dining Credits) that come with working for a restaurant group.

• Flexibility starts on day one. We all have families and busy lives. Build your week around the school run, the surf, the physio appointment or whatever it is.

• One team catch-up a week. We do it in person and keep it short. If it clashes with your child’s assembly, we move it. You are not the first person here to have a life.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee the bookkeeping function, including accounts payable.

• Review and audit multi-site payroll files prepared and executed by the HR Manager. Act as the financial safeguard to ensure total General Ledger alignment, correct Superannuation Guarantee allocations, and compliance with the relevant hospitality aweard rates.

• Manage the end-to-end preparation, reconciliation, and legal lodgement of quarterly BAS, IAS, and annual company/trust tax returns.

• Monitor changes to ATO rulings, ensuring the business and its commercial clients strictly comply with GST, PAYG, Superannuation Guarantee, and Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) laws.

• Manage payroll tax compliance across the group.

• Track and distribute weekly “Actual vs Budgeted” Food, Beverage and Labour Cost reports to Venue Managers by close of business every Tuesday.

• Prepare year-end workpapers.

• Deliver precise monthly P&L Statements, Balance Sheets, and cash flow metrics per venue, ensuring all reconciliations are complete.

• Provide advisory support to the Directors and Senior Management, including budgets and actual-versus-budget reporting, cash-flow forecasting, KPI setting and analysis, project performance, and opportunities for tax optimisation.

• Design , document and maintain internal controls across accounts payable, payroll and banking, including segregation of duties, approval limits and supplier verification.

• Proven experience implementing financial controls and fraud prevention in a multi-site business.

About you

• You are comfortable sitting across the table from a business owner and telling them something they might not want to hear.

• You are an A-grade Xero user.

• You enjoy using AI to expand productivity and creativity.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex compliance, tax liabilities, and financial data to Directors clearly.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

• Highly regardedbif Tax agent or BAS agent with the Tax Practitioners Board, or hold the verified qualifications and mentored practical experience

• Current membership or active progression toward a CPA or CA designation is highly regarded.

• Experience preparing financial statements and income tax returns.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills

Who are we?

Seaside Restaurants consists of a series of vibrant, sophisticated and high-achieving hospitality venues that began opening in 2018, including Bang Bang Byron Bay, Bang Bang Noosa, Capiche Restaurant and Hutong Harrys.

With over 250 employees across our current sites and the acquisition of further venues on the near horizon, this expanding group is looking for more.

The right applicant will play a key and exciting role in this growth. Whilst expansion is the goal, maintaining the warmth and energy of a family business is essential. We require an individual who can join a small head-office team, help streamline administrative procedures and maintain financial controls.