Financial Officer

Company:
A growing technology business based in Perth Western Australia

Reports to:
Chief Financial Officer

Job Purpose:
To provide day-to-day support to the CFO to assist in managing the financial operations of the company.

Initial Key Responsibilities:
– Oversee accounts receivable bookkeeping using Xero, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial accounts receivable reporting.
– Reaching out to accounts receivable debtors to ensure prompt and timely payment, so as to ensure healthy cash flow within the business.
– Assist with ensuring that Cashflow reporting software is kept accurate with current data such as sales and project targets.

Long Term Responsibilities
– Oversee and ensure the accuracy of invoicing of project & ad hoc work.
– Oversee timesheets and report on the efficiency of staff billable time.

Requirements:
– A strong understanding of Australian Accounting Standards and tax laws.
– Strong Knowledge of Xero bookkeeping software
– Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications.
– Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
– Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate financial information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
– Ability to effectively manage time to ensure that responsibilities are carried out consistently and reliably.
– High attention to detail and accuracy, with a commitment to maintaining ethical and professional standards.

What We Offer:
– Competitive salary and benefits package
– 13th Month Payment (Prorated for the first year)
– 10-day period in Late December Paid Leave (Christmas/New Years)
– Maundy Thursday & Good Friday Paid Leave
– Paid Leave on your birthday + 2 other days of paid leave for use when you wish
– Flexible working hours and a 36h work week
– Opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-growing technology company
– Collaborative and supportive work environment with opportunities for growth and development
– Exposure to a range of financial and business operations, providing valuable experience and growth opportunities.

Our Values:
– Creating wildly successful customers by doing whatever it takes to enable our champions to be transformational leaders and their staff to be superstars.
– Focusing on outcomes – Getting tangible real results for our customers is what we (and they) value most. How we get there is flexible!
– Building for durability – We want to create something worth creating, that will endure the test of time. Doing the same thing over and over again is depressing and wasteful – we’d rather use best practices and scalable technologies.
– Knowledge = Power – Empowering people and organisations through education and training because knowledge is not pie. More for everyone else doesn’t mean less for us.
– Evolving and adapting – Nobody knows everything, and we’re committed to improving our processes and skills and pushing those improvements through to benefit everyone (and especially our clients).
– Operating with integrity – by communicating internally and externally with respect and transparency and by being genuine in everything we do.
– Owning it – We hold ourselves accountable for outcomes, good and bad. We don’t pass the buck. We are accountable for ourselves, our colleagues, our clients and our company.
– Having lives – Work to live, don’t live to work. We love what we do but we also understand that happy people are more efficient and creative. We fully support flexible working hours, asynchronous communication and giving ourselves and our staff the freedom to do what we love.

We understand that this is a long job description, and we really appreciate you reading through to the end. Many people don’t, and we regularly have more than 200 applications for our positions. Two things that are really important to us are thoroughness and a sense of humour. To show that you are the right applicant, please provide a copy of your CV along with the answer to this question in your application:
“What would you do if there was a zombie apocalypse?”

If you are shortlisted, we will contact you to arrange a Zoom interview. Please ensure that you have a suitable audio and video solution to enable this. Good luck!