**Responsibilities:
- Assist external accountants in preparing monthly BAS including but not limited to:
- Prepare necessary accounting information (invoices, bank statements, etc) and provide it to the company's external accountants with comprehensive notes about the company's business activities of the month
- Translation of the company's expense records from Japanese to English
- Summarise monthly export sales and reimbursements figures
- Advise daily remittance provided by the Joint Venture in Excel spreadsheet.
- Reconcile AR & AP posted into XERO and remittance advice figures to verify accuracy.
- Collate/reconcile all figures posted into XERO with the figures of the company's own expenses record to verify accuracy.
- Correspondence with the company's external accountants including inquiries and corrections of miscalculations/misstatement in their BAS and worksheets.
- Liaise with external accountants in preparing quarterly financial statements including but not limited to:
- Collate/reconcile the figures in worksheets provided by the company's external accountants with the figures in various financial records of the company using excel spreadsheets to verify accuracy.
- Collate/reconcile all figures posted into XERO with the Joint Venture's Trial Balance reports, Fixed Assets Register and Shipping Schedule to verify accuracy.
- Maintain/update Fixed Asset Register for the company's own assets.
- Correspondence with the company's external accountants including inquiries and correction of miscalculations/misstatements in their financial statements and worksheets.
- Maintain/summarise the company's expense records for monthly reporting to the parent company.
- Assist in budgeting and reporting to the parent company
4. Preparation and lodgement of the quarterly ABS survey
5. Ad hoc general duties
**Requirements**:
- Minimum of 3 years admin experience or similar
- Accounting experience
- Experience with Xero skill or similar accounting software
- Pay attention to detail with handling numbers
- Outstanding communication skills
- Fluent in Japanese and English
- Full working rights in Australia
📌 Japanese Speaking Office Administrator
🏢 HOBAN Recruitment
📍 Brisbane