Accounts Manager (Bookkeeping, Accounting & Receivables) and Future CFO

Role Purpose
This role is a part-time, virtual role responsible for executing and coordinating the financial processes within the company including bookkeeping, running financial reports, issuing invoices, managing accounts receivable and supporting our Australia-based external company accountants. We’re looking for a highly capable person who can grow with the company and over time take on more executive type responsibilities.

Responsibilities
As Accounts Manager your responsibilities will consist of:
– Conducting bookkeeping in XERO, ensuring all transactions for the month are reconciled by the 5th of the following month. You will also set up rules to increase efficiency and identify other opportunities to improve our use of XERO.
– Obtaining receipts from emails and online accounts for inclusion in XERO via Dext.
– Managing our invoicing process, from the timely and efficient issue of our invoices to our customers to ensuring invoices are paid on time.
– Managing payroll for employees and overseeing contractor payments via Wise
– Managing superannuation payments for Australia based employees (the owners)
– Supporting BAS and IAS reporting (as directed by our Australia based accountants)
– Running monthly financial reports (P&L, cashflow) and analysing and presenting these to company leadership.
– Weekly revenue update in our team meetings
– Running quarterly expense analysis reports, analysing these, and presenting your recommendations to optimize ongoing costs.
– Running quarterly revenue analysis reports, identifying which products, countries, industry sectors generate the most revenue and show the most revenue growth.

What Success Looks Like
Succeeding in this role will mean that the company leadership has access to up-to-date company financials at all times, and are supported by in-depth, insightful analysis and recommendations to improve company finances and financial processes. The success of this role will be measured by the following metrics:
– Monthly reconciliations are complete by the 5th of the following month
– Invoices are issued on time
– Invoices are paid on time by customers
– Number of cost improvement opportunities identified
– Timely issue of high quality monthly and quarterly financial reports incl analysis

About You
Knowledge and skills are important, but we will primarily hire based on attitude and behaviour, which means:
– You are honest, reliable, and have a great attitude to work. You do what you say and say what you do.
– You are highly organized, pay attention to detail, get things right the first time most of the time, but are not afraid to make a mistake and take responsibility.
– You take initiative, can work with relatively little supervision and can manage a large diverse workload with competing priorities. You speak up when you don’t know something or don’t understand, but are proactive enough to then go and find out and learn.
– You can work well on your own, but enjoy being part of a (virtual) team. You have no problem receiving feedback from others and acting on it.
– You are keen to take on extra responsibilities where you can (after all you are a talented individual!) but at the same time you are happy to do simple, more administrative work where required.
– Ultimately you are the kind of individual who can make things happen and is excited by being part of a bigger vision.

Your Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
– Chartered Accountant
– Xero certified advisor
– At least 5 years of demonstrable experience with AU accounting including GST, BAS etc.
– Proficient with online tools, platforms, and XERO integrations including Stripe and Dext
– Ideally you hold an MBA (or working towards it) and have the headroom and desire to grow into a more substantial financial role within the company (subject to company success and growth)
– You are fluent in English and especially your written English is clear, concise, and accurate.

What’s on Offer
This is a long-term remote contract role allowing you to work from home on a part-time basis (50%). You will be required to work 4 hours per day, either mornings or afternoons, within 7am to 7pm (Philippines time). There will be a 3-month probation period.

Base pay will be between USD 500 to USD 600 per month depending on experience, with a 13th-month pay in December, up to 3 months cash bonus subject to company performance, 10 days leave, and an annual allowance of USD 500 towards Private Health Insurance. Benefits become available after the probation period.

Applying
If you are interested then please complete the online application summarising your background, your experience, and what makes you an excellent candidate. Tell us about yourself, your skills, and why you’re interested in working with us. We appreciate people who pay attention to details so please start your application with the words “Black Beans”.

Apply via this form: Click to view/to/IdqZnHN5

If you do not apply via the above link your application will not be considered.

The application process will be extensive and quite involved: the first step is to complete the online application form via the page above. Those applications will be reviewed, and the strongest candidates will be invited to complete an online assessment using a 3rd party platform to assess your skills. From here we will invite a small group of candidates for online interviews. We aim to complete the interview process and have the successful applicant on seat by early May 2024.