Accountant (Accounts Receivables & Trust)

DBC Philippines is the shared services company of Deep Blue Company (DBC) - an innovative Australian scale-up reimagining the experience in the 'sale to settlement' for residential property buyers, sellers and real estate agents across Australia. Our group of brands includes Conveyancing.com.au, First Class Legal and bytherules - three leading Property Law firms.

The main responsibility of the Accountant role is to primarily focus on managing accounts receivables and trust accounting. This includes payment application, reconciling transactions, overseeing trust accounts and ensuring to records a trust receipt and payment, periodically prepares and complete the trust reports that comply with the statutory requirements and the law firm practices. Coordinating internally with colleagues in various departments.

You will be responsible for

Payment application and reconciliation of account receivables related transactions

Attend to any account receivables related issues and concern

Monitor the trust account bank balance daily

Create client trust ledger for any claimed trust deposit

Provide trust receipt to the client

Work closely with the Conveyancer to ensure the recording of the claimed deposit is accurate

Record the deposit and payment into the client trust ledger

Monitor trust balances of settled files and identity dormant files

Do trust bank accounts reconciliation daily

Trust documentation of client trust related transactions

Report and update to Team Lead on any trust issues encountered by the team for resolution

Other general accounting tasks specifically for the assigned entities such as creating/ updating process documentations, participate in the back up continuity plan, knowledge sharing, etc.

Perform other tasks assigned by Management

Your experience and skills

What will set you apart is your proven ability to think outside the box and anticipate the needs of the role and the team.

Our ideal candidate will

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and/or Financial Management

Preferably a Licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) or Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

Must have at least 2-3 years of Accounts Receivable and Trust processing background

Highly flexible, available to work as soon as possible

Well-developed computer skills – MS365 Suite and other accounting systems such as Xero, Netsuite, etc.

Basic knowledge in Continuous Process Improvement

Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

Self motivated with a desire to learn

Highly organised with the ability to work under pressure and within set deadlines

WORKING LOCATION AND REQUIREMENTS

This role works in a HYBRID SETUP requiring on-site attendance 2x a week and in order to be considered for this opportunity you must be able to demonstrate your home working environment is as follows:

conducive home office (free from noise and distraction)

main internet: wired internet of at least 100mbps

reliable back up internet: at least 20mbps speed

Additional Information

If our Accountant role sounds like an opportunity you'd excel in, please apply now and take the next step in your career within a successful business that values you, your wellbeing, and success.

As an equal opportunity employer, DBC embraces inclusion and diversity in our teams through fair community representation of gender, age, culture, thought and work arrangement.