Accounting Manager

Join a firm where precision meets purpose. Be an integral contributor to a high-performing team. Shape the future of q4 financial, our clients, and your career.

At q4 financial, we believe smart choices today create freedom for tomorrow. We're a progressive, cloud-enabled accounting and advisory firm in Brisbane's CBD, partnering with ambitious individuals and businesses to build generational wealth and real impact.

We're seeking an experienced Accounting Manager—sharp, proactive, and quietly brilliant—to strengthen our team and drive great client outcomes. You're engaged, commercial, and invested in your clients' success. Beyond delivery, you create clarity, challenge the status quo, and design better ways forward. You thrive on detail, instill calm and confidence, and take pride in lifting the performance of both clients and colleagues.

• Lead a defined client portfolio end-to-end: compliance, advisory, and strategic conversations that move the dial.
• Deliver high-level advisory: proactive tax planning, business planning, restructures, Division 7A, FBT, and outsourced CFO for selected clients.
• Manage and develop people: guide onshore and offshore teams; set clear standards; mentor senior and intermediate accountants.
• Drive operational excellence: refine processes, enhance system utilisation, and embed best practice across the firm.
• Contribute to innovation: play a key role in shaping how we adopt software, AI, and emerging technologies to deliver efficiency and streamline our service offerings.
• Own results: accountability for portfolio profitability, WIP, recoveries, and client satisfaction.

• 8+ years' post-qualification (CA/CPA) in business services and advisory.
• Proven leadership whereby you set direction, coach effectively, and lift team performance across onshore and offshore teams.
• Technical depth across complex tax and structuring, with sound commercial judgement.
• Ability to influence clients with clarity and confidence being a skilled communicator, comfortable engaging with owners, boards, and stakeholders at all levels.
• Analytical rigor and solutions focus, with integrity and discretion.
• A genuine desire to partner with clients over the long term.

• Trusted autonomy: own a meaningful portfolio and influence firm practice and leadership decisions.
• Serious advisory exposure: complex, diverse clients who value proactive, high-calibre advice.
• Growth runway: clear progression pathways, leadership access, and opportunities to build new service lines.
• Continuous development: funded CPD, technical coaching, and access to contemporary cloud tools, AI advancements, and workflows.

• People first: close-knit, respectful team that values performance and humanity in equal measure.
• Flexibility with accountability: outcomes-focused balance to support life outside work.
• Modern workplace: Brisbane CBD location, collaborative environment, and efficient, cloud-based systems.
• Purpose-led work: contribute to "smart choices today, financial freedom tomorrow" for clients, colleagues, and your own future.

Location: Brisbane CBD
How to apply: Please email your CV and a concise cover letter outlining relevant experience and impact to [emailprotected].

Confidential enquiries are welcome.

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