Senior Financial Accountant

The Role: Want to be a part of our exciting growth journey? 

We are looking for a talented, passionate, and motivated individual to join our team as a Senior Financial Accountant, where you will play a critical role in keeping the accounting records behind our month-end close accurate, well maintained, and audit-ready.

You will own revenue recognition entries and core month-end journals, run the close, support tax and audit compliance, and lead a small offshore finance team.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical accounting judgement (particularly on revenue recognition), deep hands-on Xero experience, and a track record of setting standards for and reviewing the work of others.

Key Responsibilities 

• Post revenue entries in Xero each period, applying the revenue recognition policy independently and flagging edge cases or judgement calls to the Finance Manager
• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, and non-routine entries, with clear supporting documentation
• Run the month-end close checklist in Asana, following up outstanding items ahead of their deadlines and escalating blockers early so close completes by WD+6
• Complete reconciliations and close tasks to a standard that requires minimal review, and contribute accurate analysis and variance commentary to management reporting
• Review journals and reconciliations prepared by less experienced team members, coaching through errors rather than quietly correcting them
• Oversee the fixed asset register and intercompany reconciliations across Traild entities, signing off the monthly reconciliation to the general ledger
• Act as the accounting-side reference point for our Tax and Compliance Specialist, and provide workpapers, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for the external audit
• Own data quality and integrity in Xero for the ledgers you are responsible for, and partner with our BI Analyst so clean, reconciled data flows into reporting
• Design scalable processes and document them as SOPs, embedding practical AI use cases where they cut manual effort out of the close
• Lead a small offshore finance team: set expectations for quality and turnaround, build technical capability through training and feedback, and run a regular cadence of one-to-ones across time zones

Who You Are

• CA/CPA qualified, or actively working towards it
• 5+ years in a technical accounting role, with strong exposure to revenue recognition, month-end close, and multi-entity reconciliations, ideally in a subscription or SaaS business
• Deep, hands-on Xero experience and advanced Excel or Sheets for reconciliations and close workpapers
• Experience reviewing the work of a more junior or offshore accountant, including setting process and quality standards, giving direct feedback, and knowing when to step in
• A working understanding of tax treatment and compliance, enough to act as the accounting-side reference point (preparing lodgements sits with our Tax and Compliance Specialist)
• Comfortable making and defending accounting treatment calls, and arriving at an escalation with a recommendation rather than only a question
• Methodical and self-managing, holding the same standard every close with little supervision, and able to explain accounting treatment clearly to non-technical colleagues
• Based in Australia, ideally Melbourne or Sydney, and comfortable working day to day with colleagues in another time zone
• Strong collaborator with an attitude embracing growth, hands-on execution, adaptability, and the scale-up spirit.