Senior Accountant

Spend your day solving problems and advising business owners — not buried in processes and deadlines.

Valont is a new kind of professional services business, and we're here to reshape how the industry works. Our clients are Australian SMEs owners who took the risk, built something real, and want to reach their full potential. They don't need another set of accounts filed on time. They need a sharp advisor in their corner who helps them make better decisions and grow.

Our model is built for exactly that: AI-operated, expert-enabled. The technology runs the operations reconciliations, coding, BAS prep, routine checks — so our accountants are free to do the work that actually moves a business forward: advising clients, solving problems, and delivering real solutions.

Here's what other firms won't say out loud: you can't help an SME partner reach their potential while you're stuck in the day-to-day operations and compliance. Every hour spent on processing and admin is an hour not spent advising the owner who needs you. We've flipped it. The operations run on our engine. Your day goes where it counts and where the work is most exciting.

Why accountants are moving to us

• Your day is advice, not admin. The low-value work is automated, so your time is weighted toward the client conversations that actually matter.
• Your portfolio grows without you chasing it. We feed you, qualified clients, through Valont referrals and cross-sell — you build a real client base without living on business development.
• Modern tools, sharp people. No legacy software, no partner politics, no 60-hour Junes for someone else's benefit.
• Room to back yourself. If you have clients who'd follow you, we'll support bringing them across. Competitive salary plus performance incentives that grow as your portfolio does.

Who we're looking for: Senior associates and senior accountants looking to do things differently:

• Are genuinely expert in your field — tax, compliance, management accounting, advisory — and want to spend more time helping SME clients reach their potential, not less.
• Are frustrated with the legacy accounting model and the volume of day-to-day operational work it forces on good people.
• Want to work a smarter way, where AI and technology do the heavy lifting, and you focus on judgment and relationships.
• Want to grow a portfolio of clients and are happy to be fed referrals to do it.
• Are hungry and ambitious — you want to build something, not just maintain it.

Position Description - Senior Accountant

Level - Senior or Senior Associate (scoped to experience)

Location - Brisbane (hybrid)

Type - Full-time, permanent

About Valont

Valont is an integrated professional services business for Australian SMEs, organised around four hubs — Finance, People, Operations and Growth. We are AI-enabled and human-delivered: technology carries the repetitive, standardised work; our accountants carry the judgement, the advice and the client relationship.

The Finance Hub is our largest service line. We are moving accounting away from the legacy, labour-heavy, billable-hours model toward a productised, advisory-led service where accountants spend their time where it counts.

The role

This is a hands-on accounting role for someone excellent at the profession who wants their week spent helping SME clients reach their potential, advising owners and delivering solutions; rather than being buried in day-to-day operations. At Valont, the routine processing runs on our AI engine, so your time concentrates on interpretation, advice and the client relationship, and your portfolio grows through Valont's referral and cross-sell engine rather than cold business development.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day accountant and advisor for a portfolio of SME clients — understanding each business, its numbers and its goals.
• Deliver Finance Hub services: management accounting, BAS/IAS and tax compliance, cashflow forecasting and reporting, and accounts receivable / credit control.
• Review and act on the exceptions, insights and compliance flags surfaced by Valont's AI engine, validating outputs in regulated areas before they reach the client.
• Provide clear, practical advice that helps owners make better decisions.
• Grow your portfolio through Valont referrals and cross-sell into the People, Operations and Growth hubs.
• Work to standardised, high-quality workflows that let us serve more clients without the linear grind.
• Build genuine, long-term client relationships that drive retention.

Skills & experience

• CA / CPA qualified (or equivalent), with post-qualification experience in a mid-tier (or comparable) firm.
• Strong technical grounding across tax compliance, management accounting and advisory; comfortable interpreting numbers and talking directly with owners.
• A genuine appetite for client-facing advisory work — you want more of it, not less.
• Comfortable with modern technology and AI tools, and energised — not threatened — by a model that automates the routine.
• Commercially minded; keen to grow a portfolio of clients.
• Strong communicator who builds trust quickly.

How we work

AI-enabled, human-delivered. Reconciliations, coding, BAS preparation, routine checks and reporting run on our engine. You own the interpretation, the advice and the relationship. Anything sensitive, strategic or regulated is human-owned.

No timesheet treadmill. Success is measured in client outcomes and portfolio growth — not hours billed.

What's on offer

• Competitive base salary.
• Performance incentives that grow as your portfolio grows.
• A pipeline of qualified clients through Valont's referral and cross-sell engine, so you build a book without cold business development.
• Support to bring across any clients who'd follow you.
• Modern tools and a model designed to keep you on advisory work, not admin.

How to apply

Apply through the listing or email ***email_hidden*** with a short note on what you do now and what you'd rather be spending your time on, along with your CV.