Senior Financial Accountant

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

How you’ll make an impact

The Senior Financial Accountant role is established to help deliver quality financial information and drive continuous improvement across the Financial Accounting team. You will have a thorough understanding of the Xero business environment and be an expert in process improvement and getting the best use out of financial systems. You will act as a leader within the Accounting Team and work collaboratively across the rest of the finance team.

What you'll do

• Be a key part of the team that drives Xero’s month end close process and reporting, owning key areas including CAPEX, leases and cashflow
• Review/understanding of wider functions/P&L, ability to analyse financial results and identify trends and anomalies and reasoning behind this
• Support the half year/annual reporting cycles, including contributing to the reporting and audit processes
• Support and drive reporting and audit processes for foreign subsidiaries compliance
• Take initiative, driving change and improvements across the team and wider functions - particularly leveraging finance systems (including the month end close process)
• Supervise, support and mentor other members of the Accounting Team
• Review junior accountants’ work
• Have a strong understanding of IFRS, including providing management with conclusions, suggesting solutions and identifying risks
• Own specific non BAU projects and delivery in accordance with specified deadlines
• Strong relationships outside of finance, as evidenced by being a key contact to business owners

Success looks like

• Building effective relationships with Xeros, both within finance and across the wider organisation
• Demonstrating an ability to find efficiencies, and improvements in processing activities
• Quality, accuracy and timeliness of work

What you’ll bring with you

• Critical competencies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both with members of Finance and with other areas of the business
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong planning, organisational, problem solving and self-management skills
• Drive and initiative
• A genuine team player who works collaboratively with and contributes to the function of a high performing team




• Experience
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in large corporate or Big 4 CA environments
• Qualified CA (or equivalent)
• History of process improvement
• Specific experience with software companies desirable but not essential

Why Xero? 

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.