Accounts Assistant

Do you want to be a vital piece of the organizational puzzle? Are you interested in performing essential tasks with an impact that ripples out to a whole company? Do you have a keen eye for even the most miniscule details? Oh yeahwe want you on our team.
InterWorks Australia is looking for a driven self-starter to join our accounting team. This individual must have a penchant for thorough methods and detailed documentation. We need someone undeterred by process particularities and who finds themselves spurred on by a fast-paced work environment. Our ideal fit is one who seamlessly complements our company culture, strives for excellence in all things and is keen to support the initiative of the accounting team at large.
This role will suit someone who has been there, done that, got the t-shirt. This means years of experience bringing with it an inbuilt want to take responsibility for your work, naturally working to the highest standard, a calm, responsive and efficient communicator, confidence to switch straight into gear and the commercial nous to know when things need scrutinizing.
We're a cutting-edge data and technology company using the latest cloud software. This is our passion and hopefully yours too. We're also a global company, you'll be reporting to the Accounts Manager in the UK and working alongside the team in the UK. You'll also be working with your colleagues in Australia, Singapore, and the US.
**What You'll Do**
**_Accounting_**
- Bookkeeping in Xero for the Australian and Singapore entities
- Maintaining the accruals and prepayment schedules which track accrued and deferred costs.
- Maintain fixed asset register and ensure items are assigned to the correct person, monthly processing of depreciation and reconciling the FAR to the balance sheet.
- Processing monthly recharge invoices between the entities and ensuring inter-company accounts remain in balance.
- Monitoring cashflow and highlighting any insights to management.
- Setting new employees up with corporate cards
- Creating financial transactions in our CRM and exporting those to Xero,
- Reviewing time, software transactions and expenses in month end review cycle
- Quarterly GST returns for Singapore entity,
- Monthly and quarterly activity statements for the Australia entity, this is currently outsourced and over time the aim is to bring it back in-house.
- Invoicing, creating invoices and assisting customers with invoice queries, uploading invoices to customer portals.
- Software orders, creating and checking before approving.
- Assisting Account Executives to complete vendor set up forms.
- Receipts/travel expenses, recording and chasing missing and entering these transactions into our CRM. Receipts are entered by the UK team, so this element is more of a covering role working alongside the UK team.
- Reconciling expenses recorded in our CRM to the monthly corporate card statement.
- Debtor management e.g., chasing customers for payment where invoices fall overdue. Debtors are primarily managed via UK staff so this element will have more of a covering role working alongside the UK team.
- Chasing down paperwork e.g., POs if the information is missing from customer orders.

**_Payroll_**
- Process bi-monthly payroll in a timely and accurate manner
- Review, audits, and logs payroll data using the payroll system (Xero)
- Administer time-off (paid or unpaid) for all employees
- Handle internal and external payroll and benefit related questions.
- Process starters and leavers in Xero

**What You'll Need**
Must Have:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
- Strong proficiency with Xero
- Highly effective organizational skills, including multi-tasking and detail-oriented task execution.
- Positive attitude and good analytical skills
- High aptitude for reading and interpreting financial information.
- Understanding the importance of routine reports and consistency in work quality

What We'd Like You to Have:

- 10+ years accounting experience, ideally having done payroll during this time.
- A local accounting certification
- Ideally located on Australian Western Standard (GMT+8) or Christmas Island time zone (GMT+7)
- Working hours are typically 9am-5pm to support AUS staff but due to time zones and reporting to a UK manager some flexibility will be needed
- Experience with Zoom / or equivalent (most of our team is remote, most meetings will be video calls)

**Benefits**:

- Full systems and process training
- Modern tech hardware set up for your home office (laptop, widescreen monitor, headset and phone)
- Tech allowance for additional home working office comforts
- Annual wellness benefits package
- Annual birthday gift
- Travel to periodical work get togethers
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Remote working and friendly global InterWorker Slack community

We estimate this role as $65,000-80,000 AUD, based on experience and skillset.

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