[Hiring] Accountant @Yempo Solutions

Role Description

This Accountant role offers direct mentorship from experienced leaders, progressive client leadership opportunities, and exposure to automation and AI-driven, innovative systems, with a clear pathway to Senior Accountant and Finance Manager-level responsibility.

• Own month-end close for assigned clients (progressively, depending on experience)
• Prepare financial reports and commentary
• Ensure reconciliations are complete and accurate
• Flag risks or anomalies proactively
• Prepare cash flow forecasts
• Identify variances and underlying causes
• Escalate risks early with proposed solutions
• Draft and send routine client communications
• Participate in client meetings
• Lead selected client check-ins (based on experience)
• Ensure no client is surprised by delays or issues
• Identify inefficiencies
• Improve workflows
• Contribute to automation initiatives
• Simplify reporting where possible

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years accounting experience
• Strong Accountant ready to take on more responsibility and grow into a Senior role
• Technically capable but eager for ownership
• Thrives with guidance and feedback
• Calm, thoughtful, steady under pressure
• Motivated to build something, not just execute tasks

Requirements

• Xero (essential)
• Fathom (preferred)
• Karbon (preferred)
• Process documentation experience
• Some experience with budgets and forecasts or a willingness to learn
• Superior Excel skills

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary – paid weekly!
• HMO enrollment on commencement
• Additional HMO dependents added each year of service
• 20 vacation days per year; 7 sick days
• Annual performance bonuses and incentives
• Annual salary reviews and increases
• Free cooked rice, snacks and hot drinks
• Company polo shirts provided
• Fantastic, bright and cheerful open-plan work environment
• Prestigious clients and highly professional and friendly co-workers

Key Success Outcomes (First 90 Days)

• Deliver work on time without reminders
• Proactively communicate if timelines are at risk
• Flag issues before client exposure
• Demonstrate independent problem-solving
• Show willingness to ask questions and learn
• Improve at least one process

Non-negotiables

• Proactive communication
• Accountability
• Ownership of outcomes
• Simplicity and continuous improvement mindset
• Comfortable acknowledging unknowns and investigating solutions