About Us

At The Shepherd Centre, we believe every child with hearing loss deserves a world of choice. For over 50 years, we’ve been empowering children to listen, speak, and thrive - helping them build confidence, independence, and bright futures.

As a highly regarded for-purpose organisation, we provide specialised programs for children with hearing loss and their families, tailored to every stage of their journey. From our world-leading early intervention programs for babies and toddlers to Hear for You, our mentoring program for school-aged children and teenagers, we’re there every step of the way. Today, we support over 900 families across Australia, offering in-person and online services from 10 locations in NSW, ACT, Queensland, and Tasmania. Through our global platform, HearHub, we equip health professionals worldwide with the tools to support children with hearing loss.

When you join The Shepherd Centre, you become part of a passionate, purpose-driven team dedicated to making a real difference. Our values—integrity, courage, compassion, empowerment, creativity, and innovation—guide everything we do, ensuring every child and family receives the best possible support. We foster a family-friendly, flexible work environment where our people can thrive—both professionally and personally.

As a child-safe organisation and an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive, accessible workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone feels valued.

Join us in shaping a future where every child has a voice.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Assistant Accountant, to come and work as part of a small, close-knit Finance team, who supports our amazing clinicians and operational support staff in making a positive difference to the lives of hundreds of children each year. The Assistant Accountant plays a key role in supporting the finance team by delivering a range of core financial functions. These include accounts payable, month-end processing and reporting, general ledger and bank reconciliations, BAS preparation, and maintenance of the fixed asset register.

This is a temporary full-time contract up to July 2026, based at our Newtown Head Office, conveniently located near Macdonaldtown Station, with some onsite parking available. We offer flexible working arrangements, including the option to work from home part of the week.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Accounts Payable - supplier invoice processing, processing creditor payments and attending to creditor enquiries
• Month end processing – petty cash processing, month end journals and handling bank deposits
• General Ledger and Fixed Asset reconciliations – accounts payable and receivable, balance sheet and GST reconciliations
• Assisting and supporting the Accountant with preparation of monthly reporting

About You

• Qualified in Accounting (Degree) with at least 5 years experience in an accounting or business services role
• Sound knowledge and experience with month end accounting, general ledger reconciliations and accounts payable
• A good understanding of accounting workflows, procedures and internal controls
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
• Proficiency in accounting systems is essential, with a strong preference for experience using Business Central Dynamics. Familiarity with additional systems, including payment gateways such as BPAY, PayPal, and SecurePay, as well as the Microsoft Office suite for general administrative tasks, is also required.
• Highly disciplined and focused on completing tasks within month end deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and undertakes their role with a high level of accuracy
• Excellent communication skills including building relationships within the team and across the organisation.
• Willingness to obtain a Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Check and obtain full vaccination for COVID-19 (2 doses)
• Full working rights to work in Australia

Why join The Shepherd Centre?

We don’t just profess our values, we truly practice them through the work that each and every one of us performs each day. We act and communicate with Compassion and Integrity in everything we do.

We strive to Empower everyone we meet – our children, families and stakeholders. We foster Innovation – committed to finding better ways of doing things, through evidence-based practice. And finally, we support our people to be Courageous and harness their Creativity to unlock potential, enable progress and create new opportunities.

We support our people to have a great work-life balance and offer competitive benefits including:

• Competitive salary with not-for-profit salary packaging – claim up to $15,900 of your salary tax free per year + meal entertainment expenses up to $2,650 per year
• Flexible work hours, including options to work some days from home/remotely
• A full Christmas and New Year shutdown period to recharge
• Excellent internal professional and career development opportunities
• A supportive and collaborative work environment
• A family friendly and professional company culture
• Free confidential access to Employee Assistance Program

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining how you meet the key requirements of the role. Closing date is Friday 30th May 2025.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as we will be actively shortlisting applications as they are received. As such, this position may be filled prior to the closing date.

If you have any questions about the role or require any reasonable adjustments to enable you to equitably participate in the recruitment process, please contact [email protected], using the subject line: Assistant Accountant enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note: Under the The Shepherd Centre COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, all employees and workers performing in-person work must be fully vaccinated with an Approved COVID-19 Vaccine (2 doses) and evidence is to be provided in the form of a current COVID-19 vaccination certificate.

The Shepherd Centre is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing a work environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Please let us know if you have any support or access requirements at the time of your application.