Hospitality Accountant | PAX Hospitality
PAX works behind the scenes with hospitality businesses. We assist in training their teams, coaching their managers, fixing their operations & opening their venues. A lot of that work comes back to the numbers.
We're hiring an in-house accountant to own them. You'll run the day-to-day bookkeeping and accounting across a portfolio of our clients' businesses — multiple venues, multiple entities, every corner of the hospitality finance function.
This isn't a back-office seat. You'll be in front of owners every week, explaining what the numbers mean and fixing the processes behind them.
PAX Hospitality
Full-time
Fitzroy North location
Hybrid WFH / On-Site
PAX works behind the scenes with hospitality businesses. We assist in training their teams, coaching their managers, fixing their operations & opening their venues. A lot of that work comes back to the numbers.
We're hiring an in-house accountant to own them. You'll run the day-to-day bookkeeping and accounting across a portfolio of our clients' businesses — multiple venues, multiple entities, every corner of the hospitality finance function.
This isn't a back-office seat. You'll be in front of owners every week, explaining what the numbers mean and fixing the processes behind them.
What you'll own
The day-to-day numbers
Payroll, plus supplier and bank reconciliations
Weekly wage and revenue forecasting
Cash flow forecasts — set up from scratch, then kept current
Helping build annual budgets
Month end and compliance
Month-end reporting: balance sheet reconciliations, journals and accruals
IAS and BAS returns, prepared for client review
All of it in Xero
Reporting owners actually read
Financial reports with clear commentary — what happened, why, and what to do about it
Connecting the numbers to what's happening on the floor, so owners make better calls
Process, on the ground




Working with clients daily and weekly so financial processes are understood, implemented and followed
Fixing them where they're not
Bringing stronger processes and controls in across the portfolio
Where this goes
Broad, by design. You'll see multiple businesses, multiple entities and every part of hospitality finance. You'll work alongside Kate Bradford, our CFO, and directly with venue owners and their managers. You'll have a real say in how processes run and which tools we use, and you'll take on more responsibility as PAX grows.
What you'll need
Hospitality experience. You know how a venue makes and loses money, and you can connect the numbers to what's happening on the ground.
Substantial experience managing a portfolio of businesses, in a restaurant group or an accounting practice. Multi-entity is your normal.
Strong in Xero. Not "familiar with".
Hands-on with payroll, reconciliations, BAS/IAS and month end. You've done it, not watched it.
Comfortable in front of clients every week. You can walk a chef-owner through a P&L; without losing them.
You'd rather fix a broken process than work around it.
Bonus: Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) or CPA — great if you've got it, not a deal-breaker. Portfolio and hospitality experience matter more to us.
What you get
Breadth most accounting roles never give you — multiple venues, multiple entities, the whole hospitality finance function
Room to shape the processes and systems, and grow with PAX
The hospitality network. You'll work with some of Melbourne's best operators — people worth knowing.
Generous discounts at PAX-owned venues
Adaptable WFH arrangements (2-3 days in-front of clients, in their venues)
Success looks like
Every client's books reconciled and month end closed on time, every month
Forecasts that hold up against what actually happens
BAS and IAS ready for review well before they're due — no scramble
Owners reading their reports, and making decisions off them
Financial processes venues follow without being chased
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📌 Hospitality Accountant | Pax Hospitality (Melbourne)
🏢 PAX Hospitality
📍 Melbourne