Junior Assistant Accountant

The Company

Peter Manettas Seafood Pty is Australia’s first e-commerce business, bringing consumers and businesses closer to the leaders in the seafood industry across Australia and the globe. The group of companies offers both B2C (Manettas Seafood Market) and B2B (ShoreTrade) services to market, innovating and changing the way consumers and business interact and trade seafood on a day-to-day basis. 

Manettas Seafood Market is an online, interactive B2C seafood market, enabling customers at home, chefs in restaurants, seafood wholesalers and seafood traders to use one platform, custom built for their industry, to purchase and sell seafood. Select how and when you want your seafood delivered and Manettas Seafood Market will get it there.

ShoreTrade is Australia's first innovative B2B online seafood trading platform and two-sided marketplace, simplifying and shortening the seafood supply chain with end-to-end cold chain logistics. ShoreTrade enables the direct trade, sale and purchase of seafood between the fisherman, fisheries, processors, wet shops, wholesalers, retailers, restaurateurs and hospitality groups.

This is an exciting start-up, scaling and growing quickly in market. Our passion is seafood with a deep-rooted ambition to innovate, revolutionise and transform an old-world industry into the 21stcentury. We aspire to be the Amazon for fish.

The Position

The accelerated growth seen across the Group drives the need for a Junior Assistant Accountant to join the team and assist with the day-to-day financial record keeping and reporting of the business. Reporting to the Head of Finance, the person’s main focus will be on Manettas Seafood Market, but assistance will also be required with ShoreTrade.

The Candidate

Exciting opportunity to be part of a growing start-up and growing family, gaining experience and skills that only come with joining a small and dynamic team. Problem solver that is action driven. The role at times, will require the candidate to work alongside the senior leadership team and participate in projects for the wider business.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Accounts receivable
• Accurate processing of accounts payable invoices
• Daily bank reconciliations including reconciliation of cash from our payment providers
• Debtor management
• Expense review and approval
• Ensuring appropriate documentation is kept for all purchases and accurate recording of transactions
• Assistance at month-end including preparation of balance sheet reconciliations for review
• Ad-hoc tasks including office administration as required.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who wants to join a growing start-up and is willing to get involved in all parts of the business that extends beyond the Finance Function. The business is based in the Wotso shared office space in Pyrmont. 

Key characteristics of the candidate:

• Self-motivated and pro-active
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Organised and able to multi-task 
• Works well in a small team environment
• Willingness to learn
• Action driven 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Strictly no agencies please