Accounting & Finance ✦ Dedicated & full-time

Accountant

A dedicated accountant for management accounts, reconciliations and reporting — under your CPA's direction, in your ledger, from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
Fully managedWe hire, you lead

What an Accountant does

Not every finance task needs a partner-level signature. A dedicated accountant handles the recurring management-accounting load — reconciliations, journals, month-end and reporting prep — so your senior finance people and external accountant stay on strategy and sign-off.

Every StaffingSolutions.io accountant is recruited, hired and managed by us — reference-checked for your tools, working your business hours, and backed by our zero-risk promise: no placement fee, money-back first week, and a free replacement if the fit isn't right.

What they handle

  • Management accounts — month-end close and reporting prep.
  • Reconciliations — bank, ledger and intercompany.
  • Journals & accruals — accurate, documented entries.
  • AP/AR oversight — keeping subledgers clean.
  • Reporting packs — management and board-ready.
  • Year-end — file prep for your accountant.
The actual work

A week in the role

Sits inside an Australian practice or a business finance team doing the preparation work partners and financial controllers never get to: closing the month, building workpaper files, reconciling the balance sheet and drafting returns to review-ready state. A registered tax agent reviews, signs and lodges everything that leaves the office.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Month-end close journals

Posts accruals, prepayments, depreciation from the fixed asset register and any foreign exchange revaluation, then rolls the balance sheet reconciliation file forward so every control account agrees to a supporting schedule before the controller signs the close off.

Year-end workpaper files

Builds the file in Xero Workpapers or MYOB AE: trial balance mapped, lead schedules against each balance, source documents attached and an open query list for the client, so the tax agent opens a complete file rather than a shoebox.

GST and BAS reconciliation

Reconciles the GST control accounts to the activity statement worksheet, reviews tax rate coding on capital purchases, insurance and government charges, and documents the variance notes. The registered BAS or tax agent reviews the figures and lodges.

Fixed asset register upkeep

Adds acquisitions with the invoice and finance documents attached, processes disposals with profit or loss on sale calculated, applies the client's effective life and pooling policy, and agrees the register back to the asset and accumulated depreciation accounts.

Draft company and trust returns

Prepares the income tax return in Xero Tax or MYOB AE Tax from the finalised accounts, reconciles the return back to the financial statements and flags anything needing a judgement call. The registered tax agent reviews, signs and lodges.

Division 7A loan schedules

Maintains the loan agreement schedule, calculates the minimum yearly repayment using the ATO benchmark interest rate, tracks repayments and unpaid present entitlements across related entities, and puts the working in front of the accountant who decides the treatment.

Trust distribution paperwork

Calculates distributable income and the streaming of franked dividends and capital gains against the trust deed clauses, then drafts the resolution and minutes ahead of 30 June for the accountant to review and the trustee to sign.

Job and workflow control

Runs the job list in Xero Practice Manager or Karbon: allocates time, moves jobs through review states, files correspondence in FYI Docs against the right client group, and reports which jobs are sitting waiting on a partner.

FBT return preparation

Collects logbooks, novated lease and car cost data, calculates car fringe benefits under both the statutory and operating cost methods, tracks employee contributions and entertainment records, and hands the draft return and workings to the tax agent.

ASIC company housekeeping

Processes annual review statements, officeholder and share structure changes and registered office updates in CAS 360, prepares the solvency resolution and keeps the company register current, ready for the registered ASIC agent to lodge the forms.

Management reporting for clients

Builds the monthly pack out of Xero: profit and loss against budget split by tracking category, balance sheet movement, aged payables and receivables, and short written notes explaining what moved since last month and why.

Intercompany and clearing accounts

Reconciles intercompany loan accounts both ways so they eliminate on consolidation, clears Stripe, Square and Shopify settlement accounts down to nil, and chases the unidentified deposits sitting in suspense before the accounts go to review.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does an accountant cost?
From $14/hr + GST for a full-time, dedicated team member — roughly $29K a year against $95K–$115K all-in for the local equivalent once you add super, leave, payroll tax, software and a desk. No placement fee, no setup fee, no recruitment retainer: you pay from the day they start, for hours worked, and interviewing candidates costs nothing. Specialist roles sit a little higher. Run your numbers →
Do we need our clients’ permission?
If you are a registered agent doing this for your clients, yes. Code item 6 of the Tax Agent Services Act stops you disclosing a client’s information to a third party without their permission, and the TPB’s outsourcing guidance names offshore contractors as third parties. Permission has to be obtained before the disclosure, not after — a general third-party consent in your engagement letter is acceptable to the TPB, and it should name what is disclosed, to whom and where. If you are a business doing your own books, the question does not arise: it is your own information.
How fast can they start?
Typically 14 days from your discovery call to day one. In the first week we source and screen against your brief; you get three matched profiles and interview whoever you like. Once you choose, we handle the offer, the contract, equipment and connectivity checks, and induct them on our side before they reach you. Specialist roles — developers, NDIS claims, anything needing niche software — can take a week longer, because we won't pad a shortlist just to hit a date.
What if the fit isn't right?
You're covered twice over. If it's clearly wrong by day five, your first week is refunded in full. After that, a free replacement any time — new shortlist, new interviews, no second fee, because there was never a first one. Before it gets that far, talk to us: our HR manager will work through it with you and the team member, since most problems turn out to be an unclear process rather than the wrong person, and a fortnight of coaching usually fixes it. Replacing someone is the last resort, not the first move.
Is there a minimum term?
Three months, then month to month. It's the same runway you'd give a new local hire to learn your systems, your clients and your standards — and the team members who get a fair run are the ones who stay for years. There are no exit penalties at any point, and if the issue is the person rather than the role, the first-week refund and free replacement cover that separately.
How do you handle confidentiality?
The same way you'd treat any remote team member. Every placement signs an NDA and a confidentiality clause before day one, and they work inside your systems — your email, your CRM, your file storage — so you control what they can see and can revoke access instantly. No client data is stored on our side.
What stays with you, and what goes to them?
They take the recurring, process-driven part of the accountant role — the work that happens the same way every week and eats your day. Judgement calls, client relationships, anything requiring your licence, sign-off or authority stay with you. The clients who get the most out of an accountant hand over a defined process and keep the decisions, rather than handing over the whole function and hoping. On the discovery call we'll map which tasks fall on which side of that line before you commit to anything.
How do I hand the work over without losing weeks to training?
Record yourself doing the task once and talk through it as you go — a fifteen-minute screen recording beats a written manual every time, and your accountant will turn it into a documented process you both work from. Expect the first fortnight to be shadowing and checking, then steadily less. If you have nothing documented, that's normal and it's not a blocker: we'll help you decide what to record first, and your account manager checks in through the whole ramp-up.