Financial accounting
Offshore financial accountants for Australian businesses.
Build continuity around month-end, reconciliations, reporting and finance operations with a person who learns your policies and systems.
Close discipline
Role scope
Capability that fits the controls you already use.
We recruit for the work, systems, communication style and experience you define. You interview the shortlisted candidates and decide who joins your team. The successful person works full-time for your business rather than moving between unrelated client task queues.
Typical responsibilities
- Prepare month-end schedules and approved journals
- Complete bank and balance-sheet reconciliations
- Support management and financial reporting
- Maintain cash-flow schedules and finance workpapers
- Coordinate AP, payroll-review inputs and audit support
A good role brief
Define success before recruitment starts.
Candidate quality depends on a clear brief. We will help separate the essential capabilities from preferences, map decision rights and identify the practical working conditions.
Useful signals to include
- Month-end timetable and materiality thresholds
- Entity, currency and reporting complexity
- Accounting platform and adjacent systems
- Required workpaper standards and audit calendar
- Experience, qualifications and stakeholder communication
Professional qualifications and software experience are candidate-specific. They are confirmed during recruitment; we do not imply that every candidate holds the same credentials.
Responsibility boundary
Preparation and analysis stay connected to accountable review.
The person works within client accounting policies and approval controls. Jade does not provide Australian tax or BAS lodgement. Statutory judgement, tax treatment, sign-off and lodgement must be handled by your business or an appropriately registered practitioner.
Operating rhythm
The close, and everything that surrounds it.
Every business runs its own calendar. This is the shape the role usually takes, and a useful starting point for the conversation about what yours needs.
| When | What the role carries |
|---|---|
| Weekly | Keep bank and control-account reconciliations current so month-end does not start from behind. |
| Month-end | Prepare schedules, post approved journals, reconcile balance-sheet accounts and assemble the reporting file. |
| Quarterly | Support cash-flow reporting, review recurring accruals and refresh the workpaper set. |
| Annually | Prepare audit workpapers, agree balances and resolve reviewer queries. |
| Continuously | Improve the workpaper standard so the same question is not asked twice. |
Systems and credentials
Recruit for your stack, verify the individual.
Experience across NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, Reckon and ADP Payroll exists within the wider team, and Australian payroll workflows including STP Phase 1 and 2 are familiar territory. What matters is the person you interview, not the list.
Professional credentials, including CPA, CA, CMA, bookkeeping and payroll certifications, Xero and MYOB certifications, are candidate-specific. We verify them during recruitment and show you the evidence before you decide. We do not claim that every employee holds every qualification, and where you need a specific certification we can agree training toward it.
Commonly relevant here
- Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, Reckon, NetSuite, Oracle or SAP
- Workpaper and document-management systems
- Fixed-asset, lease and accrual schedules
- Bank feeds, payment platforms and reconciliation tools
Related paths
Build around the work, not a generic position title.
Questions and answers
Practical details
Can they prepare our BAS?
They can prepare and reconcile the supporting information. Jade is not a registered Australian tax or BAS agent, so review, declaration and lodgement must be handled by your business or an appropriately registered practitioner.
Will they follow our workpaper standard?
Yes, and if you do not have one written down, that is usually worth fixing in the first month. A documented standard is what makes review fast and handover safe.
What happens at audit time?
The role prepares schedules and answers factual queries. Representations, judgements and sign-off remain with your accountable people and your auditors.
Next step
Define the role with Jade.
Tell us what the person needs to own, prepare and escalate. We will help turn it into a recruitment brief.