Senior Bookkeeper - Rewarding Work - Part-Time

At Bookkeepers NZ, our mission is to support businesses to make wise decisions when most needed, with trustworthy, knowledgeable, and accurate financial information saving time and providing peace of mind.   

We provide expert, accurate business operations support and bookkeeping at that vital meeting point between business owners and their accountants. We 100% care about our clients and due to client growth need another amazing human to join our driven team to ensure our clients continue to receive support at the level they deserve.   

 We are looking for someone who is passionate about getting it right, and process driven to ensure nothing is missed. We will continue to support you with ongoing CPD to add to the extensive knowledge you already have.   

This role also gives a dynamic individual the opportunity to work in our Bookkeeping team, managing a portfolio of clients, offering high level bookkeeping support and services from data entry through to final month end processing and management reporting.    

This is an extremely varied role, in a remarkably busy environment. This role will suit someone who thrives well under pressure, is process driven with exceptional attention to detail, has high level time management skills and more than anything else cares about our clients and our team.   

Our team and the culture we have all built is extremely important and we are prepared to wait for the person who is the right fit before filing this role.    

Key responsibilities include: 

• Staying on top of legislation changes and imparting this knowledge to the rest of the team 
• New client file clean-up 
• Ledger and process design and implementation 
• Full month end tasks 
• Management reporting 

 You will:  

• become part of a highly motivated, friendly, slightly quirky team offering practical solutions to a range of small to medium sized clients.    
• have experience completing a variety of client’s compliance work, regular bookkeeping tasks and just going beyond for our clients.     
• have confident communication skills, an enquiring mind, be an independent thinker and who can build rapport with clients while contributing to our team culture.    
• display professionalism and drive, and be serious about success – our clients, the team, and your own. CPD is particularly important to us.   

Must Haves: 

• Based in Hawkes Bay (for this role we need someone who can be based in the office, please do not apply if this is not you) 
• Relevant tertiary or accounting qualification/papers  
• Proven ability to manage multiple clients and multitask 
• Xero experience
• Experience working with Excel and O365, including Teams and OneDrive 
• Excellent IT and software skills – able to learn new systems quickly, and share this knowledge with clients 
• An elevated level of customer service skills 
• Be extremely organised, caring, and passionate about what we/you do 
• Be innovative and have the desire to continually learn and develop, CPD hours are mandatory 
• A natural ability for numbers, an eye for detail  
• Be an exceptional team player and fantastic co-worker, able to self-manage your workload, with the ability to get the job done while enjoying others company 

The following would be a huge advantage: 

• Experience working with accounting package addons 
• Enjoy delicious treats and good coffee 
• Experience working in XPM (Xero Practice Manager) or FYI

Core Values: 

Integrity, Honesty, Professionalism, reliability 

Fun & Personable Environment – Promotes growth and development 

Passionate – Drive for doing what we do 

Family / Work-Life Balance – Looking after ourselves and each other first 

This role is for 20 – 30 hours per week (to be negotiated) 

Hourly rate based on level of knowledge and experience

Applicants must have the right to work in NZ and be in NZ

If you are a natural problem solver who share’s our core values and would like to become part of our team, please apply.