About Us

Purpose Accounting is a management accounting company serving the not-for-profit sector across Australia. For over 12 years, we have partnered with community and cause-driven organisations, bringing together financial management with strategy and culture to help our clients increase their social impact. We support around 70 client-organisations, ranging from homelessness prevention and children's education to migrant and refugee services, Aboriginal organisations, and organisations supporting children, youth and people with disability. All our clients use Xero, together with best-in-class add-ons across the Xero ecosystem.

Our team of 25 is based mostly in Sydney, working from home for the majority of the week and coming into our Chippendale office 1 day per week, with some team members working remotely interstate. The Assistant Accountant works within a service team, with input and oversight from a more senior team member. We have a close, collegiate culture with regular collaboration across the team. Purpose Accounting is an equal prospect employer, committed to diversity of thought, culture and background, and to creating an inclusive setting for all employees.

About the Role





We are currently looking for an experienced Assistant Accountant to join our team. Key duties will include:
Delivering client payroll and bookkeeping functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable and bank reconciliations
Completing day-to-day compliance, including superannuation and STP lodgements
Preparing draft month-end processes for clients, for review by senior team members
Drafting compliance returns, including BAS, IAS, STP finalisation, portable long service leave returns and payroll reconciliations, for review
Performing easy calculations such as backpays, and drafting research on accounting matters, for review
Providing audit process support and attending to basic audit requirements
Performing budget model rollovers and loading budget data into reporting systems
Drafting management reports for clients, and modifying settings in Calxa and Power BI to make basic changes to client reporting
Responding to basic client queries and supporting in-house finance officers at client organisations
Managing the on-time delivery of ongoing client deliverables, and flagging concerns to senior team members

📌 Assistant Accountant Chippendale
🏢 On Demand Hr
📍 Chippendale