Assistant Accountant
About Us
Purpose Accounting is a management accounting company serving the not-for-profit sector across Australia. For over 12 years, we have partnered with community and cause-driven organisations, bringing together financial management with strategy and culture to help our clients increase their social impact. We support around 70 client-organisations, ranging from homelessness prevention and children's education to migrant and refugee services, Aboriginal organisations, and organisations supporting children, youth and people with disability. All our clients use Xero, together with best-in-class add-ons across the Xero ecosystem.
Our team of 25 is based mostly in Sydney, working from home for the majority of the week and coming into our Chippendale office 1 day per week, with some team members working remotely interstate. The Assistant Accountant works within a service team, with input and oversight from a more senior team member. We have a close, collegiate culture with regular collaboration across the team. Purpose Accounting is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity of thought, culture and background, and to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
About the Role
We are currently looking for an experienced Assistant Accountant to join our team. Key duties will include:
- Delivering client payroll and bookkeeping functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable and bank reconciliations
- Completing day-to-day compliance, including superannuation and STP lodgements
- Preparing draft month-end processes for clients, for review by senior team members
- Drafting compliance returns, including BAS, IAS, STP finalisation, portable long service leave returns and payroll reconciliations, for review
- Performing simple calculations such as backpays, and drafting research on accounting matters, for review
- Providing audit process support and attending to basic audit requirements
- Performing budget model rollovers and loading budget data into reporting systems
- Drafting management reports for clients, and modifying settings in Calxa and Power BI to make basic changes to client reporting
- Responding to basic client queries and supporting in-house finance officers at client organisations
- Managing the on-time delivery of ongoing client deliverables, and flagging concerns to senior team members
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