Assistant Accountant

Babbage Consultants Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Babbage Consultants Limited is seeking an Assistant Accountant to join the Auckland Finance team. You will own payroll and support day-to-day and month-end accounting for NZ and Australian entities, reporting to the Financial Controller.

This hands-on role requires accuracy, initiative, and strong communication, with exposure to multiple finance activities across borders.

Qualifications

• Experience in an Assistant Accountant or accounting support role with payroll exposure.
• Sound knowledge of NZ payroll and GST requirements; Australian payroll helpful.
• Relevant accounting or finance qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate payroll across NZ and Australia, ensuring inputs and reconciliations are accurate and timely.
• Manage day-to-day accounting: receivables, payables, expenses, banking, and credit control.
• Support month-end: journals, accruals, prepayments, intercompany entries, balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

Payroll

AP/AR

Month-end

Excel

Education

Accounting qualification

Tools

Accounting software

Job description

Assistant Accountant

Babbage Consultants is a 100% New Zealand-owned multidisciplinary professional services consultancy. We bring together architecture, engineering, planning and environmental expertise across New Zealand and Australia.

We're looking for an Assistant Accountant to join our Auckland Finance team. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you'll take ownership of payroll and a broad range of day-to-day and month-end accounting activities across our New Zealand and Australian businesses.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys variety, takes pride in accurate work and wants to build broader accounting experience. You'll work closely with the Financial Controller, Accounts Assistant and Project Accountants, with exposure to finance activity across both countries.

What You Will Be Doing

• Coordinate payroll across our New Zealand and Australian businesses, ensuring inputs, reconciliations and processing are accurate and completed on time.
• Manage day-to-day accounting processes across receivables, payables, employee expenses, banking and credit control.
• Support month-end accounting, including journals, accruals, prepayments, intercompany entries, balance sheet reconciliations and an initial review of financial results.
• Complete GST, tax and other finance reconciliations, maintaining clear and accurate supporting schedules.
• Investigate discrepancies, maintain sound financial controls and identify practical opportunities to improve finance processes.

What You Will Bring

• Experience in an Assistant Accountant or accounting support role, with exposure to payroll, accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations and month-end accounting.
• Sound knowledge of New Zealand payroll and GST requirements. Australian payroll or accounting experience would be an advantage.
• A relevant accounting or finance qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with accounting and payroll systems.
• Accuracy, sound judgement and the organisation to manage recurring deadlines, investigate discrepancies and communicate clearly, together with integrity when handling confidential information.

Why Babbage

At Babbage, you'll join a supportive team that values initiative, collaboration and professional growth. You'll have the trust to own your work and the support to keep developing. Finance works closely with teams across our multidisciplinary business, giving you visibility beyond the immediate accounting function.

• A broad role spanning payroll, day-to-day accounting and month-end.
• Access to learning, mentorship and development opportunities.
• A collaborative multidisciplinary environment with broad exposure across the business.

Applicants must be based in New Zealand and have full New Zealand working rights. Overseas applications will not be considered.