Accountant

Meros Group; Auckland; On-site; NZD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Meros Group is an Auckland-based services group providing real estate, property management, home staging and related services. The finance role will own core processes, support consolidation, and drive reliable financial reporting as the business grows.

With 4–5 years of accounting experience, you will work closely with leadership, leverage Xero and Excel, and help shape monthly reporting, controls and process improvements across multiple entities.

Qualifications

• At least 4 to 5 years of relevant accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of New Zealand financial reporting, GST, payroll obligations and tax compliance.
• Confident Xero user (essential) with strong Excel skills.
• Experience with multi-entity structures and consolidations, highly valued.
• Clear communication with non-financial managers, and accuracy under deadline.

Responsibilities

• Run month-end close across the group's entities: reconciliations, journals, accruals and intercompany balances.
• Prepare monthly management reporting: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, KPIs and variance commentary.
• Oversee accounts payable, payment runs, bank reconciliations and financial controls.
• Assist with GST, FBT and income tax compliance, and year-end workpapers with external advisers.
• Maintain intercompany accounting and support group consolidation.
• Improve finance processes, controls and reporting templates as the business grows, and support accounts and admin staff day to day.

Skills

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Tools

Xero

Excel

Multi-entity consolidations

Job description

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Working closely with the fractional CFO, you will own the group's core financial processes and turn a growing, increasingly complex business into clean, reliable numbers.

Key responsibilities

Run month-end close across the group's entities: reconciliations, journals, accruals and intercompany balances

Prepare monthly management reporting: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, KPIs and variance commentary

Oversee accounts payable, payment runs, bank reconciliations and financial controls

Assist with GST, FBT and income tax compliance, and year-end workpapers with external advisers

Maintain intercompany accounting and support group consolidation

Improve finance processes, controls and reporting templates as the business grows, and support accounts and admin staff day to day

About you

At least 4 to 5 years of relevant accounting experience, in practice, commercial roles or both

Strong knowledge of New Zealand financial reporting, GST, payroll obligations and tax compliance

Confident Xero user (essential) with strong Excel skills

Experience with multi-entity structures and consolidations, highly valued

Clear communication with non-financial managers, and accuracy under deadline

About us

Meros Group is an Auckland property services group on a fast growth path. We span real estate sales (trading as Professionals Meros Group, three branches and expanding), property management (around 700 rentals under Professionals Property Management), home staging and property services, and a growing technology arm.

40 hours across five days, with flexibility on which days and how they run

Real variety: one week closing the books, the next helping shape reporting for a new acquisition

Direct access to the owner and CFO; your work is visible and your recommendations get acted on

A growing group with room for the role to grow with it