We are currently seeking an experienced Assistant Accountant to join Perth’s award winning and largest independent full-service creative agency. Our independence sets us apart and allows us to put people at the heart of everything we do.
We are seeking a structurally minded, hyper-focused Assistant Accountant to join our team in Perth. This is a multi-layered position that serves as a critical operational bridge within our Support & Operations team. In this role, you will transition beyond mundane data entry to become a true process owner. You will maintain absolute governance over our Accounts Receivable (AR) lifecycles, drive month-end timelines, and take direct charge of local corporate compliance (including ASIC), procurement workflows, and insurance renewals to shield executive leadership from administrative friction.
Your Responsibilities can include:
Accounts Receivable & Debtor Governance
- Supervise the end-to-end Agency Accounts Receivable pipeline, verifying that billing setups align perfectly with commercial client agreements.
- Act as the primary escalation point for debtor collection proactively managing client communication to preserve cashflow velocity.
- Own the end-to-end bank reconciliation workflow across all primary agency accounts, including resolving anomalies and leveraging automated bank-feed matching rules to accelerate ledger accuracy.
Financial Analysis & Income Forecasting
- Partner directly with the Accountant and Client Service team to update, maintain, and refine income take-up and income forecasting across clients and jobs.
- Monitor actual-vs-forecast revenue performance monthly, identifying discrepancies and prepping data insights for senior leadership reviews.
- Take full ownership of the agency’s client rate infrastructure, driving absolute data accuracy through proactive system updates and leading the financial setup to ensure seamless onboarding for all new clients.
Month-End & Year-End Compliance Leadership
- Own and drive allocated month-end reporting sequences, ensuring workpapers, transactions and reporting meets strict targets.
- Assume accountability for compiling, tracking, and submitting our Agency's ASIC reporting requirements and registry updates.
- Take charge of coordinating annual corporate insurance renewals and managing localised legal contract review workflows before executive sign-off.
- Prepare and organise essential end-of-financial-year (EOFY) compliance data and annual Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) workpapers.
Systems Championing & Automation Pilots
- Serve as the primary financial software systems expert (Accountability - counta.com) and super-user, taking absolute accountability for data workflows, reports, maintaining pristine Monday.com board structures, and optimising software integrations to guarantee 100% data integrity.
About YOU
The Precision Standard: You possess an unyielding attention to detail and a natural passion for clean data. Misaligned numbers or sloppy ledger entries frustrate you.
The Collaborative Mindset: You love to Join Forces. You excel at working asynchronously alongside teammates, valuing communication clarity and mutual operational support.
The Transformation Thinker: You don't just repeat broken or slow processes; you actively Wonder More and look for automated software solutions to build long-term efficiency.
Experience & Qualifications:
- You hold a formal university degree in Accounting or Finance
- Actively undertaking or strictly committed to completing your ICAA/CPA qualification via independent, self-funded study pathways.
- Intermediate-to-advanced mastery of accounting management ecosystems is highly regarded.
- We request that you have a minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role.
About US
- We have a creative, fun, strong and rewarding team culture.
- Values that align with our team - Be Good Humans, Find the Fun, Wonder More, Join Forces and Hunt Greatness.
- Heritage listed office building & city centre location, for convenience, comfort and to enable our high-performing team.
- We pride ourselves on building close and mutually respectful relationships with our amazing clients, locally, nationally and internationally.
- Member of the Advertising Council of Australia.
- Perks? We have over 50 of them! Here’s a few highlights:
- Flexible working for greater life balance.
- Mental Health support through our confidential and 24-hour Employee Assistance Program counselling, as well as Rare Reset Days.
- Paid Parental Leave, a baby shower and celebratory announcements when you’re growing your family.
- A celebration of all cultures within our very thorough and active Festive Calendar, as well as supporting cultural public holiday swaps.
- A freebie day off for your birthday!
- Cakes, party pies and an always stocked drinks fridge.
If you’re passionate and live and breathe advertising we’d love to hear from you. Please apply today by submitting your Resume and a one-page Cover Letter.
To ensure our team partners with individuals who match our core value of Hunting Greatness, we do not accept generic or automated applications. To be considered for this position, your cover letter must explicitly include a dedicated section addressing the following three questions:
- Please detail a specific instance in your previous accounting experience where your personal focus on data integrity caught a significant ledger variance or compliance error before it escalated. What step did you implement to fix it permanently?
- Rare relies heavily on cloud automation and strict process tracking. Briefly describe your experience navigating centralised project software (such as Monday.com) and how you ensure your daily status updates remain completely accurate.
- What specific CPA milestones or skill sets are you looking to master over the next 36 months?
The Fine Print
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
To apply, you must have the right to live and work in Australia.
No recruitment consultants please.
We appreciate your understanding that due to the high number of applications that we may receive, we may be unable to reply to individual applications, phone calls or emails.
Pay: $80,000.00 per year
Education:
- Bachelor Degree (Required)
Experience:
- Assistant Accountant: 2 years (Required)
- Accounts Receivable: 2 years (Required)
Work Authorisation:
Location:
Work Location: In person
