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Senior bookkeeper

Melbourne
Kearney Group
Accountant
Posted: 25 June
Offer description

Good with numbers? Even better with people?
Join our team.
Kearney Group is made up of over 50 financial professionals and dreamers, doers, pioneers and visionaries.
Our award-winning team is a family of big-picture thinkers and creators. We're innovative, multi-disciplinary experts who draw on both left-brain data and right-brain instinct to yield winning insights; visionaries who keep one eye on the nitty gritty, and the other on the macro, long-term picture; experts who get to know our clients deeply - nurturing their hopes and dreams, truly understanding both their home and business-lives.
We're great with numbers, even better with people.
Learn more about our brilliant team, the perks of joining our firm and how we're transforming lives at team is growing and we're on the hunt for a Senior Bookkeeper.
This is a hands on Senior Bookkeeper role working with clients day to day with supervision of a small team.
Responsibilities
Clients

* Focus within the small to medium enterprise (SME) space
* Lead client relationships as a senior advisor whilst supervising a small bookkeeping team
* Responsible for the transactional processing, reconciliations, timely reporting and information of multiple external SME clients
People
* Contribute to an enjoyable working environment
* Lead a small SME bookkeeping team to work cohesively, prioritise work, hit deadlines and produce timely, accurate and valuable data for our clients
* Actively participate as a team member to contribute to the success of the team
* Demonstrate our values and behaviours
Technical Excellence
* Payroll Processing and Legislative Knowledge
* Bank reconciliations
* Credit card reconciliations
* Accounts Payable processing including bill entry, review of GL coding
* Payment preparation/processing
* Accounts Receivable processing including creation of invoices, debtor management
* Management of the integrity and accuracy of client financial reports - P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow
* Ability to research and interpret accounting principles, apply to client situations and problem solve autonomously
Financial
* Adhere to KPIs around productivity, invoicing, and billable time
Practice Development
* Gain referrals through existing client relationships
Innovation
* Make continuous improvements to accounting systems and processes
* Look for new software/tech to assist with providing clients with great advice
Core Capabilities AND Core Traits & Behaviours
* Experience using accounting systems (e.g. Xero) & Microsoft (e.g. Excel)
* Supervision experience
* Ability to resolve complex accounting issues
* Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
* Ability to work without supervision
* Good interpersonal skills
* Commitment to own personal development
* Enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible, and looking for a challenge
* Passion for the role, team, and accounting
Experience
3 years experience in a Senior Bookkeeping role.
Payroll experience is key, as is handling client payments and management reporting.
From logic to magic.
About Kearney Group.
In a professional landscape ruled by best practice, we are the frontier of truly integrated financial advice for pioneers and their businesses. Our unique skills and truly holistic capability combines the experience and technical know-how required to tackle task-based work, with the creativity needed to drive meaningful transformation. We occupy the 'intersection' between businesses and their households, becoming catalysts for connection and the collision of ideas. We are a lifelong home for the entrepreneurial spirit. Visit kearneygroup.com.au for more. Kearney Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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