[Hiring] Accountant @Contour Education

Role Description

This is a remote position.

Accountant (Australian Accounting), India

Remote (India) | Full-Time

What would it take for a financial controller to hand you a company's payables and reconciliations and never need to check behind you?

On a typical day you might:

• Clear the team's reimbursement queue.
• Prepare a supplier payment run in Xero in the morning.
• Work a Stripe settlement mismatch down to its source after lunch.
• Send the Financial Controller a balance sheet workpaper with a flagged query and your recommended fix before the end of day.

You are the accountant who runs Contour's transactional finance day to day:

• Accounts payable.
• Team member expense reimbursements.
• Account reconciliations, with balance sheet management as the part that stretches you.

You report to the Financial Controller, who owns statutory reporting, tax, and sign-off on the monthly close. Everything underneath is yours:

• What gets paid.
• What gets reimbursed.
• Whether every account reconciles.

Two habits separate a strong hire here from a competent one:

• Judgement about when to ask and when to act.
• Treating an unreconciled difference as a problem to run to ground, not a number to plug.

You start solo in group finance. The work grows with your tenure:

• Management accounting first.
• Then analytical and reporting work.
• Over time designing the processes rather than running them.

The role matters now because the volume is real:

• Supplier invoices.
• Team member expense claims.
• Student payments settling through Stripe every day, all of which has to be accurate and on time.

By the end of month three, you will have:

• Accounts payable and reimbursements running on a predictable cycle with no backlog.
• Bank and Stripe reconciliations current.
• Balance sheet accounts reconciled monthly with workpapers ready for review.
• The recurring work documented well enough that someone else could run it from your notes.

What you build in those first months becomes how Contour runs this function as it scales.

Where the work lives:

• Xero: The ledger lives here, so clean coding, up-to-date bank feeds, and tidy reconciliations are the baseline.
• Stripe: Student payments settle here, so settlements and fees get reconciled back to Xero, line by line.
• HubSpot and monday.com: The rest of the business runs here, so billing queries and task status move through them.

Qualifications

• A commerce degree plus CA Inter, CMA Inter, or part-qualified ACCA (discontinued is fine), or an M.Com.
• 2 to 4 years of hands-on accounting work.
• Reconciliation experience across bank, supplier, or settlement accounts.
• Working proficiency in Xero: coding transactions, running bank feeds and reconciliations, and pulling reports without help.
• Balance sheet exposure: you have maintained balance sheet reconciliations or prepared workpapers for a month-end close.
• Sharp written English and comfort working across the India and Australia time difference.

Requirements

• Australian accounting exposure: GST, BAS, or work for Australian clients.
• Experience supporting a statutory audit.
• Reconciliation work with Stripe or another payment platform.
• Experience in a startup or multi-brand environment.

Benefits

• Fully remote, anywhere in India.
• Compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the role and your experience.
• From application to offer: a short screen, a technical assessment, a culture conversation with our People team, and a final interview with the Financial Controller, in about four weeks.

Apply with a CV and one short paragraph on a discrepancy you caught during a reconciliation: how you spotted it and what you did next.