Tax Accountant

Atlas Partners | Accountancy & Finance Specialists; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ground-floor role

Hybrid friendly culture

Great South Melbourne office

Job summary

Atlas Partners | Accountancy & Finance Specialists in Melbourne seeks an Accountant to join the growing accounting and tax arm. You will work alongside the current accountant and directors, sharing client workload while supporting internal finance operations and growth across the group.

Growing with a dynamic team, you will contribute to tax, bookkeeping, reporting and compliance, with opportunities to expand your role as the practice scales in Melbourne’s vibrant market.

Qualifications

• Must have accounting experience in public practice or professional services.
• Confident in talking to clients and explaining things clearly.
• Comfortable running individual tax return meetings or willing to be trained.
• Demonstrates strong attention to detail, good organisation and proactive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Preparing individual and small business tax returns and running client tax return meetings.
• Supporting client bookkeeping, reconciliations, BAS, GST and general compliance work.
• Preparing financial reports, management reporting, budgets and forecasts.
• Contributing to internal finance operations including reporting, accounts payable/receivable, and record keeping.
• Proactive tax planning to help clients look ahead, not just report after the fact.
• Improving templates, systems and processes as the practice grows.

Skills

Client communication

Attention to detail

Organization

Proactive learner

Education

CA or CPA qualified, or working towards it

Tools

Xero

MYOB

QuickBooks

Job description

About the client

Our client is an award-winning Melbourne financial lifestyle firm helping ambitious young professionals and growing businesses build real wealth without putting life on hold. What sets them apart is bringing financial advice, mortgage broking and accounting together under one roof, delivered in a way that is genuine, energetic and refreshingly human. Their accounting and tax arm is the newest and fastest-growing part of the business, and they are looking for someone to help build it.

About the role

They are looking for an accountant to work alongside their existing accountant and directors, sharing the client accounting workload while also supporting the internal finance operations of the wider group. It is a genuine ground-floor opportunity to grow with a business that is scaling quickly, in a business where the advice, lending and accounting teams work closely together.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing individual and small business tax returns, and running client tax return meetings


• Supporting client bookkeeping, reconciliations, BAS, GST and general compliance work


• Preparing financial reports, management reporting, budgets and forecasts


• Contributing to the internal finance operations of the group, including reporting, accounts payable and receivable, and record keeping


• Proactive tax planning that helps clients look ahead, not just report after the fact


• Helping improve templates, systems and processes as the practice grows

What you'll bring

• Accounting experience in public practice or professional services


• Confidence talking to clients and explaining things simply


• Comfort running individual tax return meetings, or the drive to be trained up to that point


• Strong attention to detail, good organisation and a proactive, eager-to-learn attitude


• Experience with Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks


• CA or CPA qualified, or working towards it

What's on offer

• A rare ground-floor role in an accounting practice that is growing fast, with room to help shape it


• Exposure across the wider group, including financial advice and mortgage broking, which you would not get in a standard public practice role


• A clear path to grow, with scope to take on more responsibility over time and share in the practice as it scales


• A young, social and supportive culture that is flexible and hybrid friendly, based in a great South Melbourne office