Remote Bookkeeping Manager: Scale a QA‑Focused Team

Aureus Financial; Sydney; Remote; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote independent contractor

Job summary

Aureus Financial is hiring a Bookkeeping Manager to lead and grow our offshore division within our Virtual CFO practice. You will build and scale a remote team, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of client books.

You will own reconciliations, payroll, BAS/IAS, review files before submission, recruit and coach bookkeepers, and design SOPs and templates to improve quality and turnaround times across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Australian bookkeeping experience.
• Hands-on BAS, IAS, STP payroll and superannuation.
• Experience leading or supervising a remote bookkeeping team.
• Confident hands-on skill in Xero and/or QuickBooks Online; Xero Advisor certification is a plus.
• Comfortable working Sydney-aligned hours with at least 5 hours of daily overlap.

Responsibilities

• Bookkeeping Delivery and Compliance: Run reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable, payroll and BAS/IAS preparation across the client portfolio; review every file before it reaches a client or the compliance team; catch issues early.
• Team Leadership and Development: Recruit, onboard and manage the bookkeepers who join your division as it grows; run coaching sessions that build real technical skill.
• Process and Systems: Build SOPs, templates and quality-control checklists to make the division repeatable; push for Xero, QuickBooks Online and automation improvements that cut turnaround time without reducing accuracy.
• First 90 days: ensure all files reconciled and closed monthly; onboard and train initial bookkeepers; have SOPs and bottleneck plan in place.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Leadership

Remote team management

Xero

QuickBooks Online

BAS/IAS

Payroll

Superannuation

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks Online

Job description

Aureus Financial is hiring a Bookkeeping Manager to lead and grow our offshore division within our Virtual CFO practice. You will build and scale a remote team, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of client books.

You will own reconciliations, payroll, BAS/IAS, review files before submission, recruit and coach bookkeepers, and design SOPs and templates to improve quality and turnaround times across the portfolio.