Senior Tax Accountant

Turn complex compliance into confident outcomes. Bring your Australian public practice expertise to a Senior Accountant role, delivering accurate, review-ready work and helping improve the way the practice operates. Work Setup: Work from Home Role Overview Manage Australian SME accounting and tax compliance from source records to Director review. You’ll own year-end work, statutory reporting, job budgets and documented workpapers, while supporting client communications within clear approval boundaries and introducing AI-assisted bookkeeping once core work is established. Key Responsibilities Deliver year-end accounting and tax compliance: Prepare financial statements and income tax returns for companies, trusts, partnerships, sole traders and individuals; review trust distribution resolutions, unpaid present entitlements (UPEs) and beneficiary entitlements; prepare pre-30 June tax planning estimates and workpapers for Director review. Handle occasional Division 7A loan identification, minimum yearly repayments and loan schedules, plus annual FBT returns and workpapers. Keep ledgers and statutory reporting accurate: Review and clean up Xero ledgers, including bank reconciliations, journals, accruals, fixed asset registers and depreciation. Prepare BAS/IAS, GST reconciliations, PAYG instalment reviews, year-end STP and superannuation reconciliations; use ATO online services for agents to check ICA/ITA balances, lodgement status, prefill data, outstanding obligations and lodgeme