Assistant Accountant

This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative finance team where your contribution directly impacts business performance. You’ll gain exposure to a broad range of accounting functions while continuing to develop your skills in a supportive environment. This is a full time role but we are open to 4 days a week for the right candidate.

We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Assistant Accountant to manage the end-to-end processing of customer billing and collections, including invoice generation and resolution of customer queries. This role plays a critical part in ensuring accurate financial operations across accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger activities. You’ll work closely with both internal stakeholders and external customers, helping maintain strong financial controls and supporting key month-end processes.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Accounts Receivable & Collections

• Billing Management: Generate customer invoices, ensuring billing information is accurate and up to date
• Procurement Support: Liaise with customer contacts to procure client purchase order numbers to ensure seamless billing.
• Debt Collection: Manage cash collection for all companies within the group, including occasional communication outside standard hours to accommodate global customers

Accounts Payable & Expenses

• Vendor Management: Enter AP vendor invoices into the finance system and generate payment runs for approval.
• Timely Payments: Ensure the timely completion of all payment runs and handle employee expense claims and queries.

Accounting & General Ledger

• Reconciliations: Perform bank reconciliations and manage the processing and reconciliation of company credit cards.
• Asset Management: Maintain the fixed asset register and process monthly depreciation.
• Month-End Support: Assist with journal entries, including prepayments, and intercompany loan confirmations and reconciliations.
• Internal Controls: Ensure compliance with internal controls and maintain high-quality financial data

What we are looking for:

Essential Experience & Skills

• Prior Experience: Previous experience in accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other general accounting functions.

• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate yourself clearly.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage effectively with customers and internal stakeholders, including the confidence to clearly communicate approval processes and what the finance team will and won’t accept.
• Technical Mindset: High attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, and an analytical approach to tasks.

Attributes & Mindset

• Ownership: You take full accountability for your work and are able to work independently to meet strict deadlines.
• Curiosity: You are inquisitive and always seek to understand the "why" behind the numbers.
• Growth Mindset: You demonstrate a continuous learning mindset, a willingness to learn, and a drive to always do better.
• Organised: You demonstrate effective time management and a logical, structured approach to your output.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Sage Intacct.
• Completed or currently studying towards a professional accounting qualification.

Why work for Squiz? 

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ve ever met. We are made up of a diverse range of passionate professionals who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we all love what we do.

We have a lived commitment to flexibility, we know the success of our people is dependent on them having a balanced life. You will be offered flexibility as to where and how you work. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

Who we are: 

Squiz helps complex, service-led organisations harness the power of digital, improving the services they offer online. 

Founded in 1998, Squiz grew during the rise of the internet. Since then, we have evolved from a simple web content management system into a full digital experience platform (DXP), helping customers make the shift from being content managers to experience creators.

The Squiz DXP brings together content, search, data and applications in one place. To get the most out of the platform, customers can collaborate with our digital experts to design solutions and adapt as demands change.  

We are headquartered in Australia, with teams and customers across the globe, and offices in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland.