Senior Bookkeeper

As a Senior Bookkeeper of Wizard Professional Services, you will lead the day-to-day financial management and accounting transactions for your clients, in a team-oriented environment. You will be responsible for ensuring that all Bookkeeping activities are consistent and delivered accurately and timely by all bookkeepers within your team, ensuring that productivity is at its highest within the Bookkeepers. Duties include training and developing of bookkeepers as well as the development of best practice bookkeeping systems and processes to allow all team to deliver excellent bookkeeping services to all clients. Part of the role as a Senior Bookkeeper is to ensure high performance in regard to our Bookkeepers and Bookkeeping services, identifying irregularities in our deliverables. As a Senior Bookkeeper, you will be responsible for the following activities: Team Development, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Reconciliations, Client Onboarding & Ongoing Support, Treasury Support, and assisting with month end processing and reporting along with preparing and lodging business activity statements (BAS). Ensuring that all services and activities are completed accurately and in a timely manner is critical to the success of this role as well as meeting all required deadlines. You will be an integral part of the Finance team, working to provide a platinum service to all our clients as well as building strong professional relationships within our finance team.

Responsibilities

-Ensure that client satisfaction is at the forefront of all your do.
-Comply with relevant accounting acts, regulations, and statutes.
-Comply with all required policies and procedures.
-Undertake continuous personal and professional development to enhance knowledge and skills.
-Participate in annual performance appraisal programs.
-Training and Development of Bookkeepers to ensure high performance and consistent delivery of all bookkeeping services.
-Continual review and improvements of Bookkeeping systems and processes
-Record all supplier invoices and expense transactions accurately, efficiently and in a timely manner.
-Process authorised accounts payable in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
-Manage and reconcile – all supplier statements.
-Manage and reconcile - Credit Cards.
-Handle all supplier queries in a professional manner.
-Process invoices in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
-Process account payments and receipts.
-Prepare and process statements and overdue letters.
-Follow debt collection procedures for outstanding invoices.
-Handle all client queries in a professional manner.
-Reconcile all bank and loan statements in a timely, accurate, and efficient manner.
-Assist with end-of-month processing as directed.
-Daily processing account statements and update balances in the Bank Balance file.
-Daily check payments released by Director.
-Update payments in accounting software.
-Run .aba files – upload in Bank for payment release.
-Process remittance advices.
-Clear Paid transactions from Bank Balance File.
-Monitor incoming client enquiries and respond effectively and in a timely manner.
-Notify line managers if client queries become higher than normal patterns.
-Identify common queries and make suggestions to line managers for process improvements to reduce queries.

Requirements

-Self-motivated, reliable, self-starter with a positive attitude
-Proficient in Microsoft outlook and excel.
-Ability to identify key issues, trends and interrelationships between issues.
-Able to follow systems and procedures.
-Ability to maintain confidentiality.
-Desire for improving client satisfaction is a must.
-Tertiary Qualification in Bookkeeping is essential.
-Xero Certification is essential.
-AU BAS License is desirable.
-A minimum of 4 years of proven bookkeeping experience is essential.
-Experience in operating as a Bookkeeper in a Bookkeeping firm is desirable.
-The ability to manage multiple client files is also essential.
-Demonstrated experience in the use of Xero Accounting Software.
-Demonstrated experience in Invoice Processing Automation software e.g. Dext
-Ability to manage incoming client communications effectively.
-Knowledge of Australian accounting procedures, including GST and BAS.
-Payroll experience is advantageous.
-Proven Accounts Payable, Receivable and Bank Reconciliation experience
-Demonstrated understanding of Australian accounting principles, general ledgers, financial reporting, COA, BAS, IAS and SGC
-Highly organised and productive
-Able to multitask and have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
-Professional presentation and great communication skills

Benefits

-Salary of PHP 50,000 to PHP 60000 based on experience
-9 Day work Fortnight