Accounting Production Manager (AI-Native)

About the role

This role owns end-to-end production for the offshore delivery team: job scheduling, workflow, capacity allocation, WIP management, quality control and turnaround, reporting directly to the Brisbane principal. The work is compliance-led and business-weighted (roughly 90 percent business services and business tax), with a genuine, non-optional requirement for hands-on SMSF exposure. Beyond compliance, this person will draw on the team for advisory support, management reporting, financial modelling, and R&D tax incentive work, on a growth basis for those who show the aptitude and appetite for it. This is a hybrid, Manila-based role: 3 days in the office, 2 from home.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end production for the offshore delivery team: job scheduling, workflow, capacity allocation, WIP management, quality control and turnaround
• Act as the technical escalation point across the full Australian compliance suite, business and SMSF, reviewing work prepared by the team to review-ready standard
• Run the job pipeline against SLAs and hit agreed turnaround targets
• Review management reports and financial models produced by the team, not just compliance files
• Use AI to compress preparation and review time, and help build AI-driven workflows across the team, not just within individual jobs
• Hold the team accountable to quality and turnaround standards, with strong written English as the direct link to the Brisbane principal
• From time to time, support advisory work: monthly and quarterly management reporting packs and commentary, financial modelling (budgets, cash flow and three-way forecasts, scenario work), and R&D tax incentive workpapers, training provided, not expected on arrival

Requirements

• 8+ years in Australian accounting, including at least 3 years managing a production or delivery team
• CPA, CA or equivalent (Philippine CPA acceptable)
• Australian experience only: hands-on Australian tax and compliance experience from an Australian accounting practice or an Australian-facing offshore team. Not US, UK, or Canadian experience
• Technical depth across company, trust and partnership tax returns; financial statements; individual returns including business and investment schedules; BAS, IAS, GST, PAYG withholding and instalments; Division 7A; trust distributions, losses and family trust elections; CGT including small business concessions; company loss carry-forward and continuity of ownership testing; FBT; STP Phase 2; superannuation guarantee; TPAR; payroll tax and workers compensation; and ASIC annual reviews and company secretarial work
• Hands-on SMSF exposure: fund annual returns and financial statements, member statements and contributions/cap monitoring, pensions and TBAR reporting, and working with an external auditor through to signed audit
• Enough breadth and speed across both business and SMSF work to take on any Australian compliance job and bring it to review-ready without needing to hand it off
• Proven experience running a job pipeline against SLAs and hitting them
• Deep Xero and Xero Practice Manager experience. Familiarity with Ignition, HubSpot, Microsoft 365, Slack, and SMSF platforms such as BGL Simple Fund 360 or Class Super is a plus
• AI-native: demonstrable use of AI in day-to-day work, process automation, prompt design, using AI to compress preparation and review time, with specific examples to speak to at interview
• Strong written English and the confidence to hold a team to account
• Based in Metro Manila or willing to relocate, within a realistic commute, and able to commit to 3 in-office days per week

About Hunt St

At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be formally employed through an Employer of Record (EOR) arrangement. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote, so you’ll be able to work from home.

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