Senior Financial Accountant

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-23 Sydney NSW Full-time Hybrid Accounting

Company shared salary

A$10,417–A$11,250/mo (A$125,000–A$135,000/yr)

Market rate

A$10,000–A$10,833/mo (A$120,000–A$130,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Lighthouse Service Partners is on a mission to become Australia's best multi-trades home services platform. We've grown to 700+ employees and we're just getting started. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you'll be a foundational member of the HoldCo accounting team, with real visibility into how a Private Equity-backed platform actually scales.

Responsibilities

  • Own your share of monthly financial statements prepared to AASB standard, run balance sheet reconciliations and journals, and support consolidation as we bring new legal entities into the group.
  • Help implement and configure our core finance systems (ERP and reporting tools), support integration of newly acquired businesses, and find the manual processes worth automating - reconciliations, reporting packs, workflow approvals.
  • Prepare and review BAS and payroll tax, support FBT and income tax compliance alongside our external advisors
  • Support day-to-day AP, AR, fixed assets and lease accounting, help onboard the accounting records of newly acquired businesses, and strengthen controls as the group grows.
  • Build reports and insights for management, and back up the FC wherever the priority sits that week.

Requirements

  • CA qualified, 2-5+ years PQE
  • Previous hands-on use of NetSuite would be desirable but not essential
  • Strong technical grounding in AASB/IFRS and Australian tax (corporate tax, GST, payroll tax)
  • Experience preparing monthly management accounts, reconciliations, and supporting year-end audits
  • Some exposure to ERP implementation - leading or supporting
  • Advanced Excel, and the analytical instinct to know when a number looks wrong before you can prove it
  • The ability to manage competing priorities independently, without losing precision
  • A background in a Big 4 or mid-tier professional services firm
  • Experience in a PE-backed, multi-entity, or high-growth environment
  • Exposure to acquisition accounting and post-merger integration
  • Experience working across states (NSW, QLD, VIC) with differing tax and payroll rules
  • This is a rare ground-floor seat in a PE-backed platform that's scaling fast and hasn't yet ossified. You'll build systems rather than inherit them, work across a genuinely multi-entity structure as new acquisitions land, and get direct exposure to a Financial Controller, external auditors, tax advisors, and integration teams - the kind of breadth that typically takes years longer to reach in a more established finance function.
  • If you want your fingerprints on how a finance function gets built rather than just how it's run, this is that role.