Please note the base salary for this role is $130,000 - $140,000 per annum, plus superannuation.
We live and breathe startups, scale-ups and venture capital — it’s literally all we do. LUNA is Australia’s leading consultancy for startups and scaling businesses, built with the future in mind.
We deliver cutting-edge solutions across legal, accounting, tax and startup education to improve our clients’ chances of success. Through consolidating these functions under one roof, we provide cross-functional support to create the critical foundations required for any thriving startup, scale-up, or Venture Capital firm looking to do things a little differently. Over the last five years, we've ridden the waves of growth and success, but hey, who says the thrill should end here? We are looking for our next ambitious LUNAcorn who is ready to contribute to the next chapter of LUNA’s story. So, if you've ready to join a team with big impact, saddle up and let's turn our dreams into LUNA-reality!
YOUR ROLE AT LUNA
We are looking for a Senior Tax Accountant for our High Growth Startup Team who is responsible for providing high-quality client delivery work, all while hitting quarterly revenue targets and output points. You will also focus on winning new clients, as well as coaching, mentoring and developing coachees.
Your work will be split between providing timely tax compliance services for the team and other LUNA clients and being a valuable client manager for existing Accounting clients in a business services capacity.
Here's a closer look at this exciting role:
Client Delivery Work: Provide high-quality end-to-end accounting support, with a focus on tax compliance (approximately 60% compliance, 40% business advisory) for all Luna clients. This includes:
- Annual financial reporting and tax compliance for companies (and occasionally their founders and family trusts).
- Ad-hoc Tax Projects for clients could include:
- Designing tax-efficient employee share schemes.
- Advising on restructures, capital raises, and business sales with the support of external contractors
- Working closely with the High Growth lawyers to provide tax input on legal matters
- Providing recurring business services support for Accounting clients on recurring financial operations
- Implementing improvements across Accounting bookkeeping clients to ensure simplified and efficient tax compliance at year end.
Process Improvements: Work with the VP Accounting (VP-A) to improve our recurring processes from the ground-up across the team's accounting clients to ensure compliant and timely tax reporting.
Product & Pricing: Regularly provide input and recommendations to VP-A on the team's accounting product offering, including products that deepen relationships
between both accounting and legal arms.
Hit Targets: Hit individual quarterly revenue targets and output points as set out by the Head of High Growth Startups.
BAS: Oversee and manage process for how BAS are lodged and reviewed for the team.
Income Tax: Oversee and manage process for how income tax returns are lodged and reviewed for the team.
Team Performance & Culture
Hiring: Assist in interviewing and technically vetting Accounting headcount as needed, per Headcount Plan.
Mentoring: Mentor Coaches. Provide Coaches with professional growth opportunities.
THE SKILLS YOU BRING
You should apply if you:
- Have more than 5 years of experience in a tax accounting, business services or accounting environment.
- Are a registered tax agent or the ability to become a registered tax agent within 12 months.
- Have experience providing a mix of business advisory services (e.g. financial statement preparation, accounting standard interpretation, financial modelling, financial operations, etc).
- Have experience preparing, lodging and reviewing BAS, IAS, FBT, ITR and Payroll Tax
- Are very familiar with Xero, including payroll and reporting features.
- Are organised and with a proven ability to manage multiple clients at a time.
- Are based in Melbourne, or Sydney.
- Are eligible to work in Australia.
It would be an added bonus if you have any of the following in your toolkit:
- Have worked with G-suite and Google products, Hubspot, Dext, Asana and Slack.
- Have experience advising across a suite of startup needs.
- Business development and /or sales experience.
- You have experience working with financial reporting software like Fathom or Syft.
- You have experience collaborating with lawyers to deliver outcomes for clients.
- Characteristics and qualities that demonstrate team member would thrive at Luna or on your specific team.
- You demonstrate a high work EQ and the capability to manage and lead teams or business units.
- You are an impactful coach and mentor
- Highly knowledgeable on the VC ecosystem with an established network in the startup ecosystem.
- The ability to lead and balance many tasks and projects.
- Growth Mindset: You are excited by the prospect of working at a fast pace and live for growth opportunities. The idea of joining a work environment that requires you to be dynamic and agile is exciting.
- Team First: Have the desire to work as part of a highly collaborative team that has a team first mindset.
- Ownership Mentality: No job is too small and we are looking for people who can be scrappy. Like all of us at LUNA, you're happy to roll up your sleeves, help design our future state, and “own” it.
- Connection: Crave connection with your teammates and are willing to foster that connection through team building, personal and professional development.
WHY LUNA?
Our team does their best work with us, so we do our best by them. Here’s a look at a few of our benefits:
- We know that in order to do your best work, you need time away from work to recharge. Each LUNAcorn is entitled to up to 5 extra days of leave per calendar year so that you can treat yourself to a few long weekends. PLUS from Day 1 you receive 5 extra paid days off per calendar year for MMMH (Menstruation, Menopause, Mental Health) Leave.
- We encourage LUNAcorns to be entrepreneurs in their own life, which is why we allow our team to work from ANYWHERE for up to 2 months. This means you could be dialling in from a tropical beach, a snow-capped mountain, or the middle of Australia! LUNA allows you to travel and work, and get the best of both worlds.
- We’re committed to supporting budding families with a generous parental leave program. On top of the standard government program, we give primary caregivers 14 extra weeks of fully paid leave and non-primary caregivers 8 extra weeks of fully paid leave.
- Team-bonding is our happy place, so we make sure to connect on a regular basis. You can hang with your team mates at our LUNA-tastic team events, including catered lunch every Monday and two Annual Company-wide events in one of our Hub cities.
Like what you’ve been reading? Then APPLY! We would love to hear from you (yes, you!) so that we can build together. Applications are reviewed on a first-in basis.
At LUNA, we value ourselves as an equal opportunity team. All applicants will be considered regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status or identification as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. People of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply!