financial accountant (expert in AUSTRALIAN Account) | work from homeB4B Solutions Inc.

Clear is looking for a Financial Accountant to work remotely (Work-from-Home) with our client, an Australia-based, IT support firm. For over 2 decades, our client is providing innovative IT solutions and support to various businesses, ensuring end-to-end solutions tailored to their client's business goals.
Role and Opportunity
Your new role is to lead the client's Business Services Team and to tackle any job that comes your way whether it be administration of business systems or being accountable for the Accounting functions.
Purpose
As a Financial Accountant, your daily tasks may include:
Time preparation (scheduling) of:
Annual budgets.
Year-end financial accounts and reconciliations for the tax accountant
Month-end close-off and completion of Profit and Loss
Responsibility for payroll, invoicing & supplier payments, reconciliation of accounts and bank, accounts data entry, records keeping, filing and document management, office management
Submission of various tax and other statutory returns including annual salary returns, BAS, PAYG, Superannuation, and monthly payroll tax
Monthly management report detailing:
Key performance indicators
Financial trends
Debtor status
Issues with respect to debt collection
Cash flow issues
Other financial issues
Production of key performance indicators including:
Last month billed and margin by service and product,
Last month's average ticket cost,
Effective rate and gross profit % per team,
Effective rate and gross profit % per individual engineer,
Win opportunities by person and revenue
Agreement hours against the target
Effective hourly rate and gross margin per project
3-month trend analysis of margin by customer and service type
Effective charge rate per customer
Monthly monitoring of performance against budget and prior year
Prepare reports on all significant variances to budget detailing reasons for variance and steps being taken to rectify/further improve on them
Assist the General Manager in the efficient and profitable operation of the Perth operation including:
Accurate and timely preparation and issuing of invoices
Debtor control
Cost control.
Continually consider and where appropriate recommend the introduction of revised procedures to enhance service and product income, control costs and improve efficiency.
Assist the General Manager in determining the direction of the business in Australia
Provide leadership by personal example, fostering a team culture and motivation aimed at maximising both the quality and quantity of work produced by all employees.
Effectively manage and coordinate with your employee's workload to ensure cost-effective, accurate, and timely production of all financial reports and work.
Undertake monthly stock counts and reconciliations.
General administration to support the Client Services and Technical Teams
Perform such further tasks as may be required of you.
Personnel Management
Improve their job knowledge and understand how their positions inter-relate with those of other employees.
Ensure that at least satisfactory levels of acceptable work are produced by employees with respect to each of their functions.
Consistently produce neat, accurate, and thorough work at all times paying extreme attention to detail.
Co-operate with each other enhancing team spirit and effectively co-ordinated responses to client requirements.
Be totally customer orientated always dealing with them in an efficient, friendly, and helpful manner.
Co-ordinate their workloads through prioritising tasks on a logical basis.
Show initiative by anticipating needs, starting action, and assuming responsibility.
Pay extreme attention to detail ensuring that all products and documents provided to customers are fully functional/accurate and complete in every detail.
Develop a spirit of pride in their work and in the company.
Achieve targets.
Obtain job satisfaction out of their work and co-operation with fellow employees.
Encourage and praise good performance and assist employees in remedying inadequate performance by providing direction, motivation, training, counseling, and assistance.
Communications
Routinely discuss plans, progress, and priorities
Regularly discuss issues with staff, that affect them including praising good performance and suggesting methods of improving inadequate performance.
Routinely identify or anticipate problems and deal with them in a constructive manner.
Contribute to a positive image of the company.
Ethics
Demonstrate high ethical standards in all behaviour.
Exercise duty to control risk, promote quality, and maintain profitability where reasonably possible.
Act openly and honestly in all matters.
Ensure that financial records conform to local and National Government regulations in Australia.
Required Attributes
Highly skilled relationship management skills and exceptional planning and organization skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with high attention to detail
Has a proactive mindset and a mature disposition
Technologically adept with a postpaid internet subscription of at least 50mbps speed
Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
Fit to work status upon completion of the pre-employment medical exam with a negative drug test result & a valid NBI Clearance
Essential Experience
A solid 3 years of Australian account experience
Proficient with MS Office applications, highly skilled in Excel and Outlook
At least 3 years of accounting-related experience
A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or any relevant course
Experience in using Xero and ConnectWise Manage is a plus
Having a clear, neutral accent is an advantage
Clear Admin People is a B4B Solutions company that provides career opportunities to great Filipino talents to work remotely with our Australia-based clients. At Clear, employees are enjoying the following benefits on top of the government's mandatory contributions:
Work-from-home (WFH) setup
PC set with freight expense coverage
Monthly electricity and internet subsidies
Attendance incentive
HMO Coverage with free dependents
Group term life insurance coverage
Paid vacation leave and sick leave for regular employees.
Annual medicine subsidy and hospital care package
Special leave benefits (Birthday & Covid vaccination, Solo Parent & Magna Carta per IRR)
Cash conversion of accrued leave credits (maximum 10 days) for tenured employees