Accountant / Finance Operator

Accountant / Finance Operator @ FOUNDITMelbourne/Sydney | Full-time | Early-stage | VC + industry backedFOUNDIT is a buyer-first proptech platform built to fix a broken system. Buying property in Australia is confusing, slow, and often stacked against the buyer - we're here to change that.We combine tech, research and real human support to help Australians find and buy the right property at the right price. Under the hood, that means two growing revenue streams - a national buyers agency (services) and a marketplace tech platform (software) - running across two entities, with a team of 15 across two states.We're now looking for our first in-house Accountant / Finance Operator: someone who can own the numbers end to end, keep us squeaky clean with the ATO, and use AI to run a finance function that punches well above its headcount.What you'll doOwn day-to-day finance across both entities: bookkeeping, AP/AR, reconciliations and month-end close in XeroHandle all ATO and statutory lodgements: BAS/IAS, GST, PAYG withholding, superannuation, payroll tax across NSW and VIC, and workers comp declarationsRun payroll and contractor payments for a 15-person team across two states, including commission and revenue-share reconciliations for our buyer agentsProduce monthly management accounts and investor-grade reporting for the founders and boardBuild AI-powered workflows to automate the repetitive stuff - reconciliations, reporting, forecasting, document prep - so the function scales without adding headcountWork with our external tax advisors, auditors and lawyers on structuring, compliance and the occasional curly questionWho you areA qualified (or near-qualified) CA/CPA with 3-5+ years of hands-on accounting experience - practice, industry, or ideally a bit of bothFluent in Australian tax and compliance: you've lodged BAS, run payroll, managed super and payroll tax, and know your way around the ATO portalGenuinely high-competency with AI models - you already use tools like Claude or GPT daily to draft, analyse, automate and sanity-check your work, and you're hungry to push that furtherComfortable being a one-person finance function: you don't need a big team around you to get things done right and on timeDetail-obsessed on compliance, commercial on everything else - you know the numbers exist to drive decisions, not just fill spreadsheetsBonus points for exposure to real estate trust accounting, multi-entity structures, or startup and scale-up environmentsWhy FOUNDITOwn the entire finance function of a well-funded, fast-moving proptech startup, and build it your way from day oneBacked by leading operators in real estate and techLearn directly from experienced founders, investors and operatorsWork at the frontier of AI-enabled finance - we want you using the best tools available, not drowning in manual workEquity potential, great teammates, and the kind of culture where good ideas move quicklyReal-world impact: people buy homes through us. It's serious, and seriously rewardingSound like you?Shoot us a note at careers@foundit.property - or even better, tell us about a finance process you've automated, fixed or built.No need for a perfectly polished cover letter. Just tell us why you're excited.