Assistant Accountant

Job description

National organisation with affiliations globally are seeking an experienced Assistant Accountant to join their ever growing Accounting team based in Sydney City.
You will be joining a well recognised company who are a leading business in their field, a well established however growing team.

The opportunity is an exciting and new position - you will be joining a hard working, fun loving team who strive for success.

This role requires experience of mentoring / overseeing a small team as you will be responsible for managing a team of 3 day to day along with your own work load.

This role would suit a candidate who has had 3+ years experience working in a similar role inc of staff mentoring / management - CPA/CA is not a requirement for this position.

Stakeholder engagement is paramount in this position so experience & evidence in this space would be essential!



The Assistant Accountant position is a critical position within the business, aside from managing staff you will be responsible for:

• preparation of month end accounting;
  • supervise reconciliation of the assets for the group
  • balance sheet reconciliation
  • approval of journals posted to the GL
  • preparation of accruals
• oversee the accounts payable function to ensure all payments are made
• oversee accounts payable to ensure staff expenses are made on time and correctly
• back up for reconciliation and preparation for indirect tax reporting:
  • GST returns
  • Group Tax and IAS returns
  • NRWT returns

Outside of the day to day duties you will also be involved in the data cleansing for migration to a new ERP system.

Experience working on a ERP system is essential.
Excellent Excel skills are needed for this role - intermediate level (lookups, pivots, large volume data manipulation).

This role is being offered permanent full time with a salary paying up to $73,000 + super.


Please only apply if your experience is relevant to above requirements. Only successful applications will be contacted at this stage.

This role requires the candidate to be a Permanent Resident or Citizen.

Apply via the APPLY button or email your profile to liza@charterhouse.com.au