Overview
Assistant Accountant Jobs in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand at CartonCloud
Title: Assistant Accountant
Company: CartonCloud
Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Department: Corporate- Finance
Location: Remote New Zealand
Description
- Remote position with a global SaaS business
- 8 month contract position to cover parental leave
- Make an impact in this role supporting month-end, forecasting and compliance across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
CartonCloud is a global SaaS company headquartered in Australia, delivering market-leading Warehouse and Transport Management software. Our platform helps logistics and supply chain teams reclaim time, streamline operations, and work smarter every day. With a strong presence across ANZ and a growing footprint in North America, we’re investing in people who want to help shape our next phase of growth.
Our Role
We’re looking for an Assistant Accountant to play a hands-on role in our day-to-day finance operations supporting transactional processing, month-end activities, payroll, compliance, and financial reporting across our group entities.
This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience inside a fast-paced SaaS environment where your work will make a real impact. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you’ll help keep things running smoothly behind the scenes ensuring accuracy, compliance, and insights that drive smarter decisions across the business.
If you love a tidy general ledger, enjoy working collaboratively across teams, and want to be part of a company that values initiative and process innovation, we’d love to hear from you. Even better… As a crucial member of our remote team, you will be invited to join our global team Back2Base event in Japan this year!
Your responsibilities will include:
- Accounts payable and receivable, including customer invoice generation and preparing payment runs
- Supporting month-end close: journals, reconciliations, consolidation, reporting and variance analysis
- Payroll processing across multiple jurisdictions
- GST, FBT and other returns processing, in line with location-specific compliance requirements
- Ad-hoc financial analysis as required
- Financial process documentation and improvement
- Assisting in year-end audit and other finance-related projects
What we're looking for
- Prior experience in an Assistant Accountant role or similar
- Strong Excel skills (vlookups, sumifs, pivot tables, etc)
- Experience using Xero
- Experience preparing payroll
- A sound understanding of accounting principles and reporting standards
- Tertiary qualification in accounting or business
- Experience in SaaS or logistics industries would be highly regarded
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable working independently in a remote environment
If you’re ready to join a collaborative team where your contribution matters every day, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to apply now, or reach out to our Careers team – [email protected] for more information.
Our Process
To ensure every application is reviewed fairly and quickly, we use AI to assist with early resume and screening interview stages. All decisions are made by our people, and the process quickly transitions to online and in-person interviews focused on genuine connection.
Benefits
We appreciate your time in applying and we are committed to responding to every application received.
We offer a suite of additional benefits to our people including an extensive parental leave policy, support for home office setup, wellness allowance, work from anywhere options and more!
We encourage and promote a positive and inclusive workplace, one in which the talent and strengths of our increasingly diverse workforce are welcomed, further developed and manifested in our work.
