Career Opportunities
Bookkeeper/Client Administrator
(Part-Time Remote Role)
We are looking to hire an experienced Bookkeeper/Client Administrator to join our
fast growing small accounting practice. In this role you will support our clients’ bookkeeping needs, compliance obligations, and facilitate the smooth operational management of our firm.
This is a part-time employee position spread over 5 days.
About the Business
We are a Chartered Accounting firm specialising in female led small to medium businesses. Our clients love us because of our quality of work and our service offering, which combines compliance and strategy supporting our clients to grow. Our firm is proudly paperless and location independent.
We are a team of 3, of which our 2 founding Directors operate in a hands-on capacity, proudly delivering the extremely high level of service which underpins our brand.
We have strong relationships with our amazing clients and our reputation means we have grown fast in our first year of business and have big plans for 2022 and beyond.
About this exciting role
Due to our fast growth, we are looking for a trusted, experienced and proudly pedantic bookkeeper to join our team and work with us to provide the best possible experience for our clients. This will support the directors on client delivery and allow them to focus on new business and strategy.
We have great systems in place, and we are looking for someone to follow our processes, bring their high attention to detail and take responsibility for the critical client bookkeeping and administrative tasks that form an integral part of our client service and high standard of client delivery.
This role is 20 hours per week spread over 5 days. We have a Monday morning meeting of which you’ll play an important role and then you’ll have the flexibility to work the remainder of your hours to your own schedule, as long as the work is completed between 9-5pm and you are present every day.
With a heavy focus on cloud accounting, data entry and correspondence this role is suited to someone who thrives in a fast paced environment where attention to detail is essential.
SPECIFICALLY YOU WILL BE
We’re looking for someone who has strong bookkeeping and administration experience, ideally in a professional services business working remotely, who thrives with responsibility and working in an autonomous way.
MORE ABOUT YOU
• Hold yourself accountable and never need to be followed up
• Proudly manage your time and priorities to complete your jobs well ahead of time
• Love to communicate, fastidiously update systems, follow all processes and proactively share the status of your jobs
with the team
• Pride yourself on your ridiculously high attention to detail and you don’t take for granted the level of confidentiality
required for the information you are dealing with
• Happily follow checklists and procedures and where one doesn’t exist, you’ll create one and/or make improvements
where you see the opportunity
• Systems wise - you are confident with technology; can easily learn new systems without concern and have solid existing
experience in Xero and the Office 365 Suite
• Thrive in a role where you can become a valued and important member of the team
• Hold yourself accountable and never need to be followed up
• Proudly manage your time and priorities to complete your jobs well ahead of time
• Love to communicate, fastidiously update systems, follow all processes and proactively share the status of your jobs with the team
• Pride yourself on your ridiculously high attention to detail and you don’t take for granted the level of confidentiality required for the information you are dealing with
• Happily follow checklists and procedures and where one doesn’t exist, you’ll create one and/or make improvements where you see the opportunity
• Systems wise - you are confident with technology; can easily learn new systems without concern and have solid existing experience in Xero and the Office 365 Suite
• Thrive in a role where you can become a valued and important member of the team
in addition to this you'll
• At least 3-5 years of experience working in a role where you were the bookkeeper and responsible for the accounting function of a small business or worked in an accounting firm as a bookkeeper
• You will have previous Xero experience, proficiency in Excel and preferably a Cert IV in Bookkeeping
• Strong communication skills and previous experience dealing with stakeholders
• At least 3-5 years of experience working in a role where you were the bookkeeper and responsible for the accounting function of a small business or worked in an accounting firm as a bookkeeper
• You will have previous Xero experience, proficiency in Excel and preferably a Cert IV in Bookkeeping
• Strong communication skills and previous experience dealing with stakeholders
SPECIFICALLY YOU'll have
In exchange for your commitment, loyalty and hard work, you’ll enjoy a stable work from home opportunity within a growing business that is focused on innovation, automation and improvement.
You’ll be provided with a MacBook Pro and fast internet.
You’ll be given clear guidelines and expectations and with that, the responsibility to take charge and do your role in an autonomous way.
Our paperless business means you’ll be fully supported with training, processes (and lots of 1:1 time) to get you fully up to speed.
From there, you’ll enjoy flexibility and independence and a working environment where everyone takes pride in their work and always produces quality outcomes for our clients.
You’ll become part of a small but mighty team who respect and support each other and the value each person brings to the team.
So if this sounds like you send an email to hello@enterprisegrowth.com.au with “I’m your Bookkeeper” in the subject heading answering these questions below in the body of the email and attaching your CV.
1. Please describe your previous bookkeeping and administration experience specifically explaining the role, the business and how you contributed.
2. Tell us about your experience in bookkeeping and how you would describe your level of accounting and tax knowledge.
3. What part of this job advertisement stood out to you and why?
4. How do you think you can make an impact in our business?
5. Share with us two of your greatest achievements (one personal: one career)
6. Tell us about a time when you have made an improvement to a process.
7. Why does a remote role working from home appeal to you?
8. How do you keep yourself motivated & feeling connected working from home?
9. This role requires you to work up to 4 hours a day, 5 days a week in a dedicated uninterrupted way.
Tell us about your life and commitments and how this will work for you.
10. What are you currently earning and what is your availability to start?
11. Anything else you’d like us to know?
Thank you for taking the time to apply. Every application will be responded to as soon as possible.
So if this sounds like you send an email to hello@enterprisegrowth.com.au with “I’m your Bookkeeper” in the subject heading answering these questions below in the body of the email and attaching your CV.
1. Please describe your previous bookkeeping and administration experience specifically explaining the role, the business and how you contributed.
2. Tell us about your experience in bookkeeping and how you would describe your level of accounting and tax knowledge.
3. What part of this job advertisement stood out to you and why?
4. How do you think you can make an impact in our business?
5. Share with us two of your greatest achievements (one personal: one career)
6. Tell us about a time when you have made an improvement to a process.
7. Why does a remote role working from home appeal to you?
8. How do you keep yourself motivated & feeling connected working from home?
9. This role requires you to work up to 4 hours a day, 5 days a week in a dedicated uninterrupted way.
Tell us about your life and commitments and how this will work for you.
10. What are you currently earning and what is your availability to start?
11. Anything else you’d like us to know?
Thank you for taking the time to apply. Every application will be responded to as soon as possible.
next steps
• Reconciling clients’ Xero files and processing invoices through Hubdoc.
• Preparing payroll for clients
• Preparing workpapers for end of month reporting and business activity statements
• Reconciling clients’ superannuation transactions in BGL
• Setting up Xero files for clients including setup of fixed asset registers
• Checking the ATO portal and actioning correspondence for our clients
• Sending out various documents and returns to our clients electronically
• Preparing our client engagement letters and following our client engagement and file set up process for new clients
• Preparing fee workpapers and raising draft fee invoices
• Preparing weekly reports from our practice management system (XPM), and other reports to support our client delivery
• Setting up entity structures using ASIC compliance software and liaising with our clients for compliance notifications
• Tracking your time using our practice management software
• Reconciling clients’ Xero files and processing invoices through Hubdoc.
• Preparing payroll for clients
• Preparing workpapers for end of month reporting and business activity statements
• Reconciling clients’ superannuation transactions in BGL
• Setting up Xero files for clients including setup of fixed asset registers
• Checking the ATO portal and actioning correspondence for our clients
• Sending out various documents and returns to our clients electronically
• Preparing our client engagement letters and following our client engagement and file set up process for new clients
• Preparing fee workpapers and raising draft fee invoices
• Preparing weekly reports from our practice management system (XPM), and other reports to support our client delivery
• Setting up entity structures using ASIC compliance software and liaising with our clients for compliance notifications
• Tracking your time using our practice management software
