Group Accountant
Tracksuit
Accounting & Finance
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on Nov 14, 2024
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At Tracksuit we provide beautiful, radically affordable, always-on brand tracking which is easy to use compared to traditional methods. We recognise that sounds like a ton of buzzwords for marketers, so what it really means is that we ran over 50,000 surveys last month to find out what real humans think and feel about the world’s best brands and their competitors. Check us out here: www.gotracksuit.com 🙌
As one of Australasia's fastest-growing startups, we've hand-picked a world-class team of kind, ambitious, generous, and smart humans and now, we’re looking for a superstar Group Accountant to join our Finance team. This is a rare opportunity to be the 2IC within a function at an ultra-high growth business. You'll step into a newly created role where you'll have a ton of learning opportunities and where your contributions will be instrumental in Tracksuit's global success and growth.
As our Group Accountant, you will be responsible for:
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes and implement best practices and leverage tech stack to optimise efficiency in financial operations.
- Month-End Close & Financial Reporting: Owning the end-to-end month-end process for multiple entities (NZ, AU, US, UK), and ensuring timely preparation of management reports, providing insights to support decision-making.
- Accounts Payable: Managing the accounts process , entering and managing bills in Xero; submitting these for approval, preparing and prioritising payment runs to ensure adherence to payment terms and maintaining proper documentation.
- Payroll: managing payroll processes across multiple entities using iPayroll, CloudPayroll, and Insperity, ensuring timely and accurate payroll calculations, including bonuses and deductions, preparing variance reports for payroll-related discrepancies.
- Reconciliation & Bookkeeping: Reconcile bank accounts and debit cards for all entities, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded in Xero, maintain proper documentation for all transactions and follow up on missing receipts, and handle inter-company transactions and ensure correct reconciliation across entities.
That’s the role, so who are you?
- You’ll have at least 3 years experience in accounting or related role - you ‘get’ it - ideally from one of the Big 4 (orTop 10 firm experience) with a focus on tech clients. Bonus if you've got startup experience!
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end month-end close processes.
- You will be CA qualified OR nearly qualified and with a passion for technology, SaaS and start-ups.
- A kind, smart and genuine human with a growth mindset.
- You thrive in fast-paced environments and, as an early team member, are excited at the prospect of having a tangible impact on Tracksuit’s culture and trajectory.
- You understand why a great brand is critical to a business’ success (and why it’s important to track, i.e. why Tracksuit exists!)
Why join us at Tracksuit?
We’re one of Australasia's fastest growing startups, and at <4 years old, we're incredibly grateful and excited to already be working with over 600 epic brands across NZ, AU, USA, Canada and UK, like frank body, MyFitnessPal, Sharesies, Bondi Sands and more.
We’re a tight-knit, supportive, and ambitious team, driven to empower companies to use brand to drive success. Our culture thrives on complete transparency, trust, learning, and constant development and improvement.
Underpinning the experience are our great benefits, including:
⦿ Compensation: Competitive market rate remuneration, which is reviewed twice annually. Our radically transparent compensation policy ensures that salaries are fair across the entire team.
⦿ Bonus Scheme: An annual company-wide performance bonus to celebrate hitting our targets together.
⦿ Employee Share Option Program (ESOP): So that everyone on the team has a share in Tracksuit’s success.
⦿ Progressive health and wellness benefits: Including an annual wellness bonus, access to a premium EAP platform, and 6 weeks of paid annual leave.
⦿ Generous parental benefits: 12 weeks’ paid parental leave for either caregiver, additional sick leave for IVF, gradual return to work.
⦿ A $1000 personal L&D budget for each Trackstar, plus additional growth opportunities including mentorships, speaking engagements, and travel.
⦿ Flexible working: We have beautiful offices in Auckland, Sydney, London, and New York. We are office first but offer full flexibility day to day and adopt a balanced approach to WFH/in-office work.
But don’t take our word for it! You’ll be joining the:
- NZ Hi Tech Awards, Emerging Company of the Year 2024
- Mumbrella Marketing Company of the Year 2022
- HRD Employer of Choice <200 Staff 2024
- AFR Best Place to Work Media and Marketing (4th place) 2024
Most importantly, when you join, you’ll receive an epic Tracksuit which reflects our vibe. We are built for speed and comfort, we're fun and informal, and we're practical and ready for anything.
👉 Please note: While it is preferred that this role is based in Auckland, Aotearoa NZ (& requires you to work from our vibrant office space), we are also open to this position being based from our Sydney, Australia offices for the right person. With flexibility to work from home, we trust you to choose the balance that empowers you & your team to achieve their goals.