Financial Accountant | Expert in Australian Accounting

As a Financial Accountant, you shall be reporting to the Finance Manager, where you will play a key role within a small, collaborative finance team, to:

• Supervise a small team in delivering day-to-day accounting functions, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of financial information across the group, including profit centre reporting and management within Xero
• Maintain delegation of authority and ensure compliance.
• Enter intercompany transactions and reconciliations.
• Maintain accurate records of business assets, ensuring appropriate recognition, valuation and depreciation treatment within Xero.
• Coordinate weekly supplier payment runs.
• Oversee payroll activities, coordinate weekly, fortnightly and monthly payroll payments.
• Be responsible for other employee-related obligations, including supporting onboarding, payroll tax, superannuation and PAYG-W.
• Complete end of month accounting processes, including ledger maintenance (and profit centre accounting), balance sheet reconciliations and journal adjustments for accruals.
• Close the ledger by 5 working days, monthly.
• Assist with the short-term monitoring of cash position and contribute to forward-looking cash planning.
• Prepare and distribute the weekly dashboard to the management team and board
• Be responsible for drafting activity statements for lodging with ATO (BAS/IAS/PAYG).
• Work closely with the Finance Manager to identify and implement process improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing other tasks as requested by the client and/or management.
• Perform other tasks as required by the client and the management

Clear is looking for a Financial Accountant to join our specialist team of accountants and bookkeepers working for Australian clients from a range of industries.

Role and Opportunity

Your role is to oversee and coordinate the group’s financial and administrative functions, ensuring proactive management, accuracy, timeliness, and operational efficiency. This position plays a key role in supporting the business with reliable financial insights for informed decision-making, while ensuring that all regulatory and compliance obligations are consistently met.

This is a hands-on role, where you are expected to perform the listed tasks to efficiently supervise a full-time bookkeeper and site-based administrative staff who assist with processing customer and supplier invoices, payroll, and selected month-end tasks.

• At least 5 years of Australian accounting experience
• Holds a Bachelor’s degree in accounting or any finance-related field
• High level of proficiency in Excel with experience in using other MS Office applications
• Advanced experience in using Xero (including profit centre accounting)
• Working knowledge of the generally accepted accounting/bookkeeping principles and procedures

Required Attributes:

• Great English communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Organised and a self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proactive mindset, can work independently but collaborates well with a team
• Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy and manage deadlines effectively.
• Flexibility to perform relevant admin tasks as required by clients.