Senior Bookkeeper

Bookeze; Pottsville; Remote; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home

Flexible hours

Casual to full-time

Job summary

Bookeze Bookkeeping, based in Pottsville, NSW, is expanding and seeks two senior bookkeepers. The role focuses on high-level bookkeeping with occasional advisory sessions for clients across Australia, requiring strong double-entry accounting knowledge and client-facing skills.

You will work across multiple client engagements with minimal supervision, in a family-owned business that values work-life balance and flexible hours, including a fixed Tuesday 9am team meeting.

Qualifications

• Three years of experience in either a public practice accounting firm or public practice bookkeeping firm.
• Ability to deliver advisory sessions to clients.
• Strong understanding of double-entry accounting principles.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• General bookkeeping including data entry, coding and bank reconciliations.
• Payroll & superannuation processing.
• BAS/IAS preparation and year-end workpapers.
• Month-end reporting and reconciliations.
• Occasional delivery of external CFO/advisory services and KPI analysis.
• Budget preparation and regular reporting of actual vs budget.
• Presenting month-end reports to the Board/owners of the business.

Skills

Highly organized

Excellent communication

Deadline driven

Multitasking

Double-entry accounting

Advisory delivery

Autonomous working

Attention to detail

Education

Qualified accountant

Qualified senior bookkeeper / equivalent experience

Tools

QuickBooks Online

Xero

MYOB

Microsoft Excel

Dext

Hubdoc

Lightspeed

Shopify

Stripe

Square

Tradify

Ascora

QuickBooks Time

Unleashed

Job description

Come and work for an award-winning bookkeeping firm.

Bookeze Bookkeeping is based in Pottsville, NSW, looking after clients right across Australia — bookkeeping, payroll, BAS and Business Advisory. We took out two categories at this year's Tweed Business Awards and are through to the regionals.

We are a team of seventeen, six of them qualified accountants. That is deliberate. We are building a team of high performers — we are not your everyday bookkeeping firm, and we do not hire everyday bookkeepers.

We are growing fast, and we are looking for two senior bookkeepers to join us.

About the role

Are you an accountant who understands how to deliver advisory services but wants to take a step back into a predominantly bookkeeping role? Then this is the role for you!

We would equally welcome a qualified senior bookkeeper with the experience to match — what you can do matters more to us than which qualification you did it through. The role is predominantly high-level bookkeeping with the occasional advisory session, so you need to be able to hold your own in front of a business owner. You will work across a range of our clients, often alongside other members of the team, with very little day-to-day supervision.

This is a casual position with a view to full time, with a minimum of 30 hours per week available, working from home. Flexible hours commence after an initial three month trial period, after which you can structure your week as you see fit — with work completed between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday, or 7am and 12:30pm Saturday.

Being a family owned business, we understand the importance of work-life balance. Many of us have children and build our work around them, and the flexible hours exist so that nobody misses the school play, the awards assembly or the sports day. The other half of that is our clients, who rely on us to keep their financials up to date. You choose your hours; the work still gets done on time.

One fixed point: our team meets every Tuesday at 9am. Attendance is mandatory and non-negotiable.

The key responsibilities of the role will include:

• All aspects of general bookkeeping including:
• Data entry, coding and bank reconciliations
• Payroll & superannuation processing
• BAS/IAS preparation
• Year-end workpaper preparation
• Month-end reporting and reconciliations
• Occasional delivery of External CFO/advisory services to our clients, including:
• Financial & personal goal setting for the client
• KPI construction and analysis
• Budget preparation and regular reporting of actual vs budget
• Presenting month-end reports to the Board/owners of the business
• Cashflow preparation
• Project performance analysis

The successful applicant will:

• Be either a qualified accountant, or a qualified senior bookkeeper with the equivalent experience and knowledge
• Have at least 3 years' experience in either a public practice accounting firm or in a public practice bookkeeping firm (essential)
• Be comfortable delivering advisory sessions to clients
• Have a thorough understanding of double entry accounting principles
• Display exceptional attention to detail
• Be deadline driven and have an ability to work autonomously
• Be highly organised and have an ability to multitask
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be proficient in using Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel
• Have experience in using QuickBooks Online, Xero and MYOB
• Must have experience in using third party apps and their integration with accounting programs. Examples of such third party apps include Dext, Hubdoc, Lightspeed, Shopify, Stripe, Square, Tradify, Ascora, QuickBooks Time, Unleashed.
• Have an ability and willingness to learn new software programs and processes.

*Applicants must have the right to work in Australia and be based in Australia.