Junior Assistant Accountant

Role Overview – Junior Assistant Accountant (Fully Remote)

Client: Leading Technology Consultancy

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Rate: $40 + super up to $55 + super (depending on experience)

Contract: Initial 3 months with strong possibility of extension

This role was initially scoped as an Admin Assistant, however it’s clear the team requires someone with Assistant Accountant-level understanding due to the accounting concepts involved (GST and payroll tax reporting support).

Role Purpose

Provide high-volume, admin-heavy accounting support to the tax and payroll function. The focus is on data extraction, reconciliation, documentation, and compliance support, rather than analysis or senior accounting responsibilities.

The role is designed to remove repetitive, time-consuming admin work from senior team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Extract large volumes of data from SAP (or other ERP systems) into Excel templates
• Validate and reconcile SAP data against Excel outputs
• Handle extremely high data volumes (hundreds of thousands of lines)
• Maintain:
• Work papers
• Supporting schedules
• Audit and compliance documentation
• Support GST and payroll tax reporting
• Perform intermediate Excel tasks:
• Pivot tables
• Data validation and checking
• Liaise with finance and payroll teams to request required information
• Send recurring monthly information requests to internal teams
• Ensure documentation is:
• Correctly dated
• Filed in the right folders
• Stored consistently (not bulk dumping)

Candidate Profile

Ideal background

• Junior Assistant Accountant (around 1-1.5 years’ experience), or
• Experienced Admin Assistant who has supported:
• An accounting team
• An accounting firm

Key requirement:

Someone who already understands accounting concepts (journals, invoices, reconciliations), even though the role itself is very admin-heavy.

Skills & Experience Required

• Conceptual understanding of:
• Journals
• Invoices
• Reconciliations
• Hands-on experience extracting and manipulating data from SAP or another ERP system
• Intermediate Excel skills (including pivot tables)
• Strong attention to detail and document control
• Comfortable working at pace in a highly repetitive, high-volume environment
• Willingness to learn and follow structured processes

Systems

• SAP (ideal) or other ERP systems – daily use
• Concur (nice to have, not essential)

Role Characteristics (Important to Set Expectations)

• Very admin-heavy and process-driven
• Extremely high volume of work
• Technically straightforward but repetitive
• Minimal analysis required (handled by Iris)
• Best suited to someone who:
• Is detail-oriented
• Can manage large data sets
• Is comfortable with routine, compliance-focused work

Summary

This is a fully remote, junior-level accounting support role suited to someone early in their accounting career or an experienced accounting admin. The value is in volume handling, accuracy, and consistency, rather than technical complexity.