Strategic Management Accountant: Client Forecasts & Systems

Digit Business; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Digit is a leading Australian accounting services firm providing bookkeeping, payroll and financial management for SMBs. The role focuses on turning numbers into decisions, designing management reporting, and building the systems behind forecasts.

You’ll work across budgeting, forecasting, app stack design, and complex client engagements, collaborating with Perth and Philippines teams and owning projects from onboarding to completion.

Qualifications

• Proven management accounting experience.
• Ability to build forecasts and interpret numbers for owners.
• Strong communication with business owners and boards.
• Experience integrating apps with Xero and Fathom.
• Curiosity about AI and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver performance-based management reports and KPI dashboards in Fathom and Xero.
• Build budgets, rolling forecasts and cash flow forecasts in Fathom and Xero.
• Assess client accounting systems and map/integrate the right app stack with Xero and Fathom.
• Map client finance workflows from source documents to reporting and redesign processes.

Skills

Management accounting

Forecasting

Communication

AI curiosity

Leadership

Systems thinking

Education

Degree in accounting, commerce or business (audit focus)

Tools

Fathom

Syft

Xero

Job description

Digit is a leading Australian accounting services firm providing bookkeeping, payroll and financial management for SMBs. The role focuses on turning numbers into decisions, designing management reporting, and building the systems behind forecasts.

You’ll work across budgeting, forecasting, app stack design, and complex client engagements, collaborating with Perth and Philippines teams and owning projects from onboarding to completion.