Senior Financial Accountant

Traild; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility: remote/hybrid

Global team

High-growth trajectory

Strong eNPS score

Job summary

Traild is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to own revenue recognition entries and core month-end journals, ensuring a compliant, audit-ready close. You will lead a small offshore team, drive data quality in Xero, and partner with Tax and Compliance to support external audits.

The role demands strong technical accounting judgement, hands-on Xero experience, and the ability to establish standards for others across a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a technical accounting role with revenue recognition, month-end close and multi-entity reconciliations.
• Hands-on Xero experience and advanced Excel/Sheets for close workpapers.
• Experience reviewing work of junior or offshore accountants and setting standards.

Responsibilities

• Post revenue entries in Xero each period and flag edge cases to Finance Manager.
• Prepare and post month-end journals, accruals, prepayments and non-routine entries.
• Run month-end close checklist, chase deadlines, escalate blockers early.
• Perform reconciliations and provide management commentary.
• Coach junior/offshore team members and ensure quality work.
• Oversee fixed assets and intercompany reconciliations to GL.
• Collaborate with Tax & Compliance Specialist and external audit support.
• Ensure data quality in Xero and enable clean reporting through BI.
• Design scalable SOPs and embed AI use cases to improve close.
• Lead offshore finance team with clear expectations and regular one-to-ones.

Skills

Revenue recognition

Month-end close

Multi-entity reconciliations

Xero experience

Excel/Sheets

Education

CA/CPA designation or in progress

Tools

Xero

Excel

Sheets

Job description

Traild: Who are we?

Traildis a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teamsoperate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance.

Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes.Traildexists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, andoperatewith confidence.

With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey.

This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation,controland security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run.

Traildis building the infrastructure behind modern finance,protectingand powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions.

Ifyou’reexcited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters,Traildis the place to do the most impactful work of your career.

Hear howTraildcustomers speak about us here.

The Role: Want to be a part of our exciting growth journey?

We are looking for a talented, passionate, and motivated individual to join our team as a Senior Financial Accountant, where you will play a critical role in keeping the accounting records behind our month-end close accurate, well maintained, and audit-ready.

You will own revenue recognition entries and core month-end journals, run the close, support tax and audit compliance, and lead a small offshore finance team.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical accounting judgement (particularly on revenue recognition), deep hands-on Xero experience, and a track record of setting standards for and reviewing the work of others.

Key Responsibilities

• Post revenue entries in Xero each period, applying the revenue recognition policy independently and flagging edge cases or judgement calls to the Finance Manager
• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, and non-routine entries, with clear supporting documentation
• Run the month-end close checklist in Asana, following up outstanding items ahead of their deadlines and escalating blockers early so close completes by WD+6
• Complete reconciliations and close tasks to a standard that requires minimal review, and contribute accurate analysis and variance commentary to management reporting
• Review journals and reconciliations prepared by less experienced team members, coaching through errors rather than quietly correcting them
• Oversee the fixed asset register and intercompany reconciliations across Traild entities, signing off the monthly reconciliation to the general ledger
• Act as the accounting-side reference point for our Tax and Compliance Specialist, and provide workpapers, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for the external audit
• Own data quality and integrity in Xero for the ledgers you are responsible for, and partner with our BI Analyst so clean, reconciled data flows into reporting
• Design scalable processes and document them as SOPs, embedding practical AI use cases where they cut manual effort out of the close
• Lead a small offshore finance team: set expectations for quality and turnaround, build technical capability through training and feedback, and run a regular cadence of one-to-ones across time zones

Who You Are

• CA/CPA qualified, or actively working towards it
• 5+ years in a technical accounting role, with strong exposure to revenue recognition, month-end close, and multi-entity reconciliations, ideally in a subscription or SaaS business
• Deep, hands-on Xero experience and advanced Excel or Sheets for reconciliations and close workpapers
• Experience reviewing the work of a more junior or offshore accountant, including setting process and quality standards, giving direct feedback, and knowing when to step in
• A working understanding of tax treatment and compliance, enough to act as the accounting-side reference point (preparing lodgements sits with our Tax and Compliance Specialist)
• Comfortable making and defending accounting treatment calls, and arriving at an escalation with a recommendation rather than only a question
• Methodical and self-managing, holding the same standard every close with little supervision, and able to explain accounting treatment clearly to non-technical colleagues
• Based in Australia, ideally Melbourne or Sydney, and comfortable working day to day with colleagues in another time zone
• Strong collaborator with an attitude embracing growth, hands-on execution, adaptability, and the scale-up spirit.

The Perks of Working atTraild

• Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options.

• Global team: we are growing across APAC, NA and EMEA and have team all across the world.

• We are growing at an exponentialrate,this is an opportunity to get involved with a truerocketshipwith all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it

• Our team genuinely loves working atTraild: our eNPS score is 78, where anything above 50 is considered world-class.

Please note that the final applicants for this job will be asked to consent in writing to a police check / criminal background check to the extentpermittedby law in yourjurisdictionof employment.Please note thatTraildis an E-Verify employer.