About Raise

At Raise, we are positively impacting the well-being of young people by providing best practice youth mentoring programs in high schools and in the community. Raise supports over 1,000 young people and their mentors every year and is creating thriving communities by empowering young people to become resilient, capable and connected.

About this Role

This is a ‘hands-on’ role and will undertake all financial accounting tasks including payroll, payables, receivables, month-end close, monthly, and year-end financial reporting and financial forecasting and analysis utilising Xero.

The role will suit a Financial Accountant who enjoys working in a small/medium business environment, has a broad range of experience across all aspects of financial accounting and is seeking to make a real difference to their community.

Success in this role looks like:

• Managing a variety of bookkeeping tasks including accounts receivable and accounts payable including invoicing, payments and receipts.
• Performing day-to-day general ledger bookings and reconciliations using Xero.
• Managing fortnightly payroll runs for ~90 staff through Xero based on Tanda timesheet information.
• Preparing efficient, effective and timely monthly management accounts / reporting and year-end financial reporting, including analysis of key cost and income drivers and ratios.
• Collaborating with senior management to drive the yearly budgeting process.
• Preparing monthly and yearly expense and cashflow forecasts using financial models.
• Continuously develop financial processes and procedures to increase the accuracy and efficiency of financial reporting.
• Driving the implementation of internal financial control improvements.
• Preparation of BAS, GST, FBT reporting, superannuation, income tax return and other documents required by ATO.
• Liasing with external tax consultants as required.

About You

You are a community minded individual with a genuine interest in the well-being of young people.

Regarding skills and experience, we are looking for:

• Tertiary Degree qualifications in Finance, Accounting or Commerce
• Qualified CA or CPA with strong financial accounting knowledge
• At least 5 years of relevant financial accounting experience, preferably in a SME or Not-for-Profit using Xero
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting and external audit is highly desirable
• Demonstrated leadership qualities and passion for making a difference in the community
• Ability to work unsupervised and deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
• Warm interpersonal skills and effective communication, presentation and organisation skills
• Completion of Raise selection process including Youth Safety Checks, must hold a current Working with Children (Employee) Check and National Crime Check
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office365 with particularly strong knowledge of Excel
• Excellent IT skills in Xero, Tanda, Salesforce, and comfortable using cloud systems such as Google Drive

Raise embraces workplace flexibility. Our workforce is designed on a fully flexible workplace model. As such, this position is being offered as a permanent part time role, 15 hours per week, with the days to be agreed by the successful candidate and hiring Team Leader. The location is from your home office and our Sydney office in Mosman or our Melbourne Office. Interested or do you know someone who might be interested?

Raise Foundation is committed to being a Youth Safe, Youth Friendly organisation and will, for all children and young people who come into contact with our programs:

• Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services
• Work to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it occurs
• Place the interests of any young person suffering harm, or at risk of harm, above the interests of any other individual or the organisation

A position description is attached.