Senior Financial Accountant

This is a senior role and will be required to lead a team of well-trained professionals. Your new company
A client focussed Business Services organisation based in the Northern Beaches where a team owns and manages the client services
Your new role
This is a senior role and you will be required to lead a team of well-trained professionals.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Management

• Lead & coach an accountant and a junior
• Work with the business services manager to manage workload scheduling across your team in conjunction with the business services manager utilising the Xero Practice platform and associated tools.
• Manage a small client portfolio and tasked with onboarding new clients and expanding your portfolio of clients.
• Provide an environment where the team can excel through continual improvement in process, innovation, customer service, and education.
• Ensure workloads are balanced and utilise outsourced support (Odyssey) to maintain a work-life balance with staff in the office and quality of client service.
• Encourage team development of documentation around procedures and policies.
• Ensure record-keeping and practice online filing is maintained to the highest standard.
• Ensure that work papers are well documented for all clients.
• Assist the principal with system development and design, problem resolutions and solutions.
  
  Consulting Services
• Support the business services manager by providing virtual CFO services to clients.
• Take part in delivering written advice under Australian tax law and the OECD model convention for international clients. Ongoing training and development will be provided in this area.

Taxation

• Prepare and manage the completion of accounts and income tax returns for companies, trusts, partnerships and individuals in Xero/Xero Tax.
• Prepare and manage BAS returns in Xero Tax.
• Liaise with the ATO on client matters and audits.

Accounting {Individuals/Trusts/Companies/Partnerships}

• Maintain assigned client accounts in Xero through the support of bookkeeping, payroll, superannuation "Super Stream" compliance, year-end accounting reviews and adjustments and preparing client tax planning reports.
• Set up new client Xero accounts and perform migrations from other accounting packages as required.

Registrations

• Perform trust and company establishments.
• Manage OSR trust stamping.
• Manage ABN and TFN applications.
• Lodge long service leave corporation returns.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful, you will be CA OR CPA, be technically strong, ambitious, reliable and a strong communicator.
You will currently be a Finance Manager or Team Leader within the corporate industry or from Public Practice/ Business Services and seeking diversity challenges and a true career path.
You are a person who loves to make the role theirown.

What you'll get in return
This is a permanent fulltime role reporting to the Business Services Manager who reports to the Director
What you need to do now
To learn more, please call Domenic Ciofani on 80626155 or email Domenic at domenic.ciofani@hays.com.au

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