Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager - Outsourced Finance

Ascentium; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

InCorp Advisory, part of the Ascentium family, is hiring a Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager to lead outsourced finance. You will own client relationships, manage month-end processes, and guide an offshore team, with a clear path toward Manager as you grow the function.

The role emphasizes improved processes, stronger Xero setups, automation, and AI usage, while delivering compliant bookkeeping, payroll, and financial reporting for a diverse client base.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Australian public practice, business services or outsourced finance.
• Comfortable dealing with clients directly.
• BAS/IAS and Australian payroll are second nature.
• Strong month-end discipline and ability to investigate variances.

Responsibilities

• Own client relationships as the day-to-day contact across owner-operators to CFO-led businesses.
• Oversee month-end and reporting including reconciliations, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, leases and intercompany.
• Ensure compliance across bookkeeping, AP/AR, BAS/IAS, payroll and payroll tax.
• Lead an offshore team: set expectations, review output and build capability.
• Improve the way work gets done with cleaner Xero setups, templates, automation, and AI tooling.
• Collaborate with Head of Finance Function on client planning, onboarding and advisory work.

Skills

Client interaction

Month-end discipline

Process improvement mindset

Australian payroll knowledge

Education

CA or CPA qualified or progressing

Tools

Xero

Excel

Dext

ApprovalMax

Fathom

Employment Hero

Job description

Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager - Outsourced Finance

We're hiring a Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager into the outsourced finance team at InCorp Advisory (An Ascentium company) in Sydney. If you've done solid month-end and compliance work but haven't yet owned the client relationship or led the people doing the processing, this is the role where that happens — with an offshore team behind you and a clear path to Manager.

What you'll own

• Your clients — day-to-day contact across owner-operators with no finance function through to CFO-led businesses.
• Month-end and reporting — reconciliations, prepayments and accruals, fixed assets, leases, intercompany, provisions, then the reporting pack and commentary.
• Compliance — bookkeeping, AP/AR, BAS/IAS, payroll and payroll tax. You'll prepare some of it and grow into reviewing the rest.
• An offshore team — setting expectations, reviewing output and building capability. We'll back you if this is your first time leading.
• How the work gets done — better templates, cleaner Xero setups, more automation and sensible use of AI tooling.
• Direct work with the Head of Finance Function on client planning, onboarding and the occasional advisory piece.

About you

• 3+ years in Australian public practice, business services or an outsourced finance function.
• Comfortable dealing with clients directly.
• BAS/IAS and Australian payroll are second nature.
• Strong month-end discipline. You chase down a variance rather than explaining it away.
• Strong Xero and Excel. Employment Hero, Dext, ApprovalMax or Fathom are a bonus.
• CA or CPA qualified, or progressing.
• Curious about doing the work better, not just doing it.

Why InCorp (An Ascentium company)

For over 30 years we've built a leading boutique advisory practice serving emerging and growth-stage businesses. We've been ranked in the Australian Financial Review's top 100 firms for several consecutive years and now span eight countries across Asia Pacific.

• A genuine portfolio of your own, with support rather than micromanagement.
• Variety — hospitality, professional services, start-ups through to listed entities and not-for-profits.
• A small, tight-knit onshore team with real offshore support, so your time goes on judgement rather than data entry.
• Structured, strengths-based development and a clear path to Manager.
• Flexible and supportive working, including wellness days.
• A diverse workplace with over 15 languages spoken across our offices.
• The chance to shape how a growing division works, including its systems and its use of AI.