Job Role: Operations Accountant
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 9 AM - 5:30 PM (AU Time Zone)
Salary range: TBD
Who We Are: At Hunt St, we help Aussie companies directly hire top remote talent in the Philippines, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and beyond. You will be hired directly by the client; we are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote, enabling you to work from the comfort of your home. Australia's time zone is manageable for candidates in the Philippines and Nepal, making this opportunity even more appealing.
Who The Client Is: The client is a financial operations specialist focused on optimising cash flow and compliance for small businesses in Australia. They offer integrated solutions that streamline financial transacting and eliminate the need for internal accounts administration, allowing businesses to redirect resources toward income generation.
Role Overview: The Operational Accountant will play a pivotal role within the finance team, focusing on day-to-day financial operations. This position involves managing accounts communications and documentation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, reconciliations, and reporting. The ideal candidate will have experience with Australian accounting practices, particularly in payroll and operational roles, and possess solid analytical skills to support their account manager and clients.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage Client Emails
- Read, Understand (in full) and Respond to each email
- Categorise and act on emails in accordance with SBFO and Client principles
- Escalate anything you are not 100% confident you have understood
- Escalate further actions to stakeholders and managers
- Respond to emails clearly and communicate effectively
- Understand and Process Documentation inline with client specific policies
- Create manage and maintain automations
- Understand how ledgers are managed and maintained for each client
- Identify anomalies or omissions, and request documentation effectively
- Assign Transactions to General Ledger Accounts
- Assign GL codes consistently and correctly
- Understand what transactions are for and what they mean, never guessing
- Apply GST correctly, consistently and critically
- Identify suppliers that may not have been treated correctly
- Manage and Clear AP and AR Ledgers
- Review AP and AR for incorrect wrong or outstanding items
- Identify POS and FOREX transactions and resolve them
- Communicate and understand ongoing supplier / customer issues
Process and Manage Australian Payroll in Employment Hero Payroll
- Process payrolls in Employment Hero Payroll including:
Timesheet based payrolls
Award Interpretation
Termination and Redundancy payments
Complex automations
Bonus, Commissions and Allowances
Superannuation
Salary Sacrifice
Expense Reimbursements
OnandOffboard employees
- Manage Employment Hero Payroll and Xero ledger integrations
- Manageandsupport client operations and processes
- Provide payroll support to clients and employees
Reconcile Transactions, Bank Statements and Balance Sheets
- Reconcile Ledger Transactions
- Reconcile Bank Statement Records
- Reconcile Payroll to Ledger
- Reconcile and Manage Payroll Control Accounts
- Reconcile GST
- Reconcile and Manage finance schedules
- Reconcile and Manage ATO control accounts
- Process and Manage Amortisation, Accruals and Depreciation
- Produce and maintain full, complete and correct balance sheets
- Investigate, troubleshoot and correct unreconciled accounts
Perform Client Specific Operational Tasks
- Check And Process purchase orders
- Operate and manage inventory platforms
- Complete forms and template based documents
- Create and Manage invoices
- Input data to different sources
- Meet and discuss Transactions with Clients
- Request and update documentation from Clients
- Understand and Manage each client environment
- Know And Understand what each client does and how they work
- Lookfor and identify opportunities, or errors / omissions, and discuss them
promptly with your Client Manager
- Support your Client Manager with pro active information and timely outcomes
- Understand the requirement of each task and manage estimated times
- Reachout for support and input regularly and repeatedly, especially if going
overtime
Requirements
You will be required to:
- Work in a Deadline-oriented /fast paced environment with multiple, competing
and changing priorities
- Be Proficient with Employment Hero Payroll and Xero
- Understand what and why you are doing a particular task, and how that task
effects the experience of the client and impacts clients environment
- Understand instructions, systems, environments and outcomes quickly
- Operate in complex multi platform digital environments, and execute complex
tasks with multiple decision trees
- Change gears, stop, start and switch tasks to respond to changing priorities
while working quickly and methodically
- Feedback and ask questions when you don't understand completely, or feel
there are omissions or opportunities to improve
- Communicate clearly and effectively in both written and verbal formats
- Work Within a team, support your teammates and fight for our vision
- Understand and apply Australian GST, Accounting and Payroll principles critically
and consistently
- See and understand patterns, trends and identify inconsistencies
- Recognise errors, missing information and things that don't look right given the
information you have, and raise those issues with your team
