Junior Accountant

BruntWork.com

Hybrid

Remote

Part Time

This is a remote position.

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Brisbane Time (AEST)
Total Weekly Hours: 20 hours
Client Timezone: AEST – Brisbane

Join a growing business that values clean books, timely reporting, and strong financial controls. You’ll be part of a distributed team ensuring finance data is accurate, audit-ready, and useful for decision-making.

Manage day-to-day bookkeeping and assist with month-end close. Handle AP/AR, reconciliations, and basic journals, while preparing schedules and summaries for management.

Responsibilities

Accounts Payable: Enter bills, match receipts, schedule payments, and maintain vendor files.
Accounts Receivable: Create invoices, apply payments, run aging reports, and follow up on overdue accounts.
Reconcile bank and credit card transactions daily or weekly; clear unreconciled items within 7 days.
Post basic journals for accruals, prepayments, and reclasses under guidance.
Prepare expense reports and verify documentation against policy.
Assist with payroll data preparation and timesheet validation; coordinate cutoffs.
Maintain customer and supplier master data with accurate tax details.
Prepare weekly dashboards including cash position, AP/AR aging, open items, and variances.
File source documents in shared drives with consistent naming and audit trails.
Compile supporting documents for auditors and tax preparers (e.g., AP/AR listings, GL extracts).
Update and follow SOPs; identify control gaps and propose improvements.
Communicate status and blockers clearly via Slack/Zoom, meeting agreed SLAs.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
1–3 years of bookkeeping or accounting experience.
Recent hands-on use of Xero or QuickBooks Online.
End-to-end AP and AR processing experience.

Requirements

Proven ability to complete bank and credit card reconciliations with no items older than 7 days.
Experience posting basic journals for accruals, prepayments, and reclasses.
Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills (VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, SUMIFS, pivot tables).
Clear written and spoken English; able to write clean notes and simple SOPs.
High attention to detail with consistent on-time delivery.

Preferred

Experience with Australian GST/BAS.

Benefits

Permanent Work-From-Home Setup.
Immediate Hiring.