Senior Bookkeeper: Xero & Aussie Compliance (Contractor)

D2B; United States; Remote; USD 13,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

D2B seeks a detail-driven Senior Bookkeeper to support Australian small businesses. You will manage day-to-day bookkeeping, month-end reconciliations, client-file cleanups, and prepare comprehensive workpapers for onshore review.

You will collaborate with onshore Australian staff, bringing deep knowledge of Xero and Australian tax mechanics to maintain clean, compliant ledgers across multiple client files.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with day-to-day bookkeeping and month-end reconciliations.
• Experience with STP payroll reporting and superannuation compliance.
• Ability to clean and audit client files for onshore review.
• Experience with Xero and Australian tax mechanics (GST, BAS/IAS, PAYG).

Responsibilities

• Perform bank and credit card reconciliations, daily transaction coding, AP/AR.
• Process payroll end-to-end, including STP reporting and superannuation compliance.
• Investigate unreconciled items and discrepancies to keep ledgers clean.
• Prepare month-end accruals, prepayments, and supporting schedules.
• Assemble audit-ready workpapers for onshore review.
• Take ownership of messy Xero files and bring up to date.
• Trace opening-balance discrepancies and missing assets.
• Restructure and standardize chart of accounts; reclassify miscoded items.
• Design and optimize automated bank rules and live feeds.
• Prepare BAS/IAS calculations with reconciled workpapers.

Skills

Bank reconciliations

Payroll processing

Xero proficiency

Australian bookkeeping knowledge

Attention to detail

Communication in English

Problem solving

Autonomous work style

Education

Australian accounting qualification or CPA/Xero certification

Experience in Australian small business bookkeeping

Tools

Xero Workpapers

Xero Practice Manager (XPM)

FYI Docs

Hubdoc

Dext

Job description

D2B seeks a detail-driven Senior Bookkeeper to support Australian small businesses. You will manage day-to-day bookkeeping, month-end reconciliations, client-file cleanups, and prepare comprehensive workpapers for onshore review.

You will collaborate with onshore Australian staff, bringing deep knowledge of Xero and Australian tax mechanics to maintain clean, compliant ledgers across multiple client files.