Accounts Officer - Get Hired Fast - Part-Time

WMS Tax and Advisory is one of the Gold Coast’s largest and most prestigious accounting firms operating out of The Rocket in Robina. With 6 partners and over 65 staff, we leverage our collective experience to deliver accounting solutions that inspire confidence.

About the role:

You core duties will be providing high level bookkeeping services internally to our Partnership group and when time, externally to key clients.

Your role will involve the full suite of accounts and bookkeeping processes including:

• Processing payroll including superannuation payments, Workcover, payroll tax and PAYG withholding;
• Bank reconciliations and data processing into accounting software;
• Credit card reconciliations
• General ledger reconciliations
• Intercompany transfers
• Liaising with external parties eg. banks, suppliers, landlord, insurance broker;
• Accounts payable;
• Preparation of payroll tax calculations and lodgement of payroll tax report with OSR;
• IAS and BAS preparation;
• End of month and other internal reporting;
• General administrative support.

About you:

You are an experienced accounts officer who is highly proficient in using various accounting software packages especially MYOB and Xero as well as excel. Your work will be highly accurate because you have superior attention to detail. You will be able to manage your workload and competing deadlines with professional ease and communicate with our staff and clients in a professional manner. 

You might want to work part-time or full-time - we are open to a work arrangement that suits the successful candidate. At the minimum, we consider this a 3 day per week role however we can increase the hours by adding client bookkeeping to the role as required. 

Your salary will be benchmarked competitively, and you will be included in our staff referral and incentive program.

About us:

At WMS we want our people to love their work, so we focus on offering our team flexibility, career development, and a culture that prioritises wellness.

Flexible Working - We empower our employees to choose how their work week is arranged. As we increasingly embrace flexibility, we:

• Have a Flexichoice policy which enables compressed work weeks so staff can meet obligations and appointments without needing to take leave;
• Have a Flexibility policy enables hybrid remote/office working arrangements with work from home days, usually two per week, chosen by staff;
• We have a paid day off for birthdays; and
• We facilitate remote work for staff who want to visit family overseas for extended periods.

Health and Wellbeing – We have an active and engaging wellness committee which embeds our focus on wellbeing into everything we do. We have:

• An Employee Assistance Program;
• Monthly sessions on wellbeing topics eg. sound healing, nature therapy, terrarium making, pottery, mindfulness;
• A giving program eg. Xmas donations for Rize Up;
• Dedicated wellness spaces. 

Our Wellness Strategy has a continuing positive impact on staff. In our 2023 staff surveys:

• 98% of respondents thought their team respected their thoughts and feelings;
• 91% of respondents felt they belonged at work;
• 92% of respondents felt their received enough positive feedback at work;
• 90% of staff said they had enough flexibility to meet their work and caring responsibilities; and
• 90% of our staff said they found our Wellness Strategy helpful to them from a wellbeing perspective.

We also have a Dress for your Day approach to work attire, and our social committee organises opportunities quarterly for us to connect with each other outside the office.

 About our recruitment process:

If you like the sound of us, hit APPLY NOW and send us your cover letter and resume outlining whether you are interested in part-time or full-time work.

If you have what we are looking for, we’ll contact you to arrange a time to chat by phone. If we sound like we align, we’ll invite you in for an interview with the people you’ll be working with. 

At WMS we value all types of diversity and include everyone as part of our firms “One Team” value. If at any stage of the recruitment process you would like us to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate you, please let us know.

If you would like further insight into our firm, check out our website and Linkedin.