Your Role at LUNA
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Financial Accountant to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing financial transactions, preparing financial reports, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards. The Senior Financial Accountant will work closely with other work streams/departments to provide financial analysis and support to the organisation.
This role requires a balance of technical accounting expertise and operational management, spanning compliance, financial reporting, and fund accounting across a portfolio of startup and scaleup clients, as well as investment funds and complex group structures.
What You’ll Be Doing
Financial Accounting & Operations (FinOps)
- Managing the end-to-end month-end close including journals, accruals and intercompany transactions
- Reviewing & Supporting Payroll Payments, Employee Entitlements, and Single Touch Payroll filings
- Preparing monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements
- Completing balance sheet, bank, loan, credit card and investment reconciliations
- Supporting budgeting, cashflow forecasting, management reporting and board packs
Tax & Compliance
- Preparing and lodging BAS, IAS, PAYG, payroll tax and other statutory obligations
- Supporting year-end accounts, tax submissions and audit processes
- Liaising with external accountants, tax advisers and auditors
- Supporting the tax team with planning and maintaining provisional tax liabilities
Investment Accounting & Admin
- Supporting fund accounting requirements including NAV, LP Reporting, capital accounts and distributions
- Producing investor reporting (for startups and fund managers) and assisting with liquidity management and audit support
- Maintaining investment registers and tracking valuations and performance (in Xero or Fund Administration tools)
- Supporting clients in managing regulatory obligations and compliance
Client Portfolio & Relationship Management
- Actively manage client relationships and satisfaction through regular check-ins
- Track client assignments and ensure high-quality service delivery
- Mentor junior team members in best practices
A Bit About You
You’re commercially minded, detail-driven, and enjoy working directly with clients. You take ownership, communicate clearly, and can operate confidently across both compliance and advisory-style work.
- CPA/CA qualification or near completion (preferred)
- 3~5+ years’ accounting experience, with exposure to BAS/IAS and compliance processes
- Strong client relationship management and communication skills
- Exposure to startups, scaleups, investment funds, and complex entity structures
- Strong working knowledge of accounting standards (IFRS)
- Advanced Excel capability and strong experience with Xero
- High attention to detail, discretion, and strong professional ethics
- Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders, founders, and external advisers
The Opportunity
- Work alongside forward-thinking clients at the forefront of cutting-edge technology and modern investment strategies
- Mentorship and career progression in a multidisciplinary professional services firm
- Collaborative, values-driven culture with a strong emphasis on innovation and growth
LUNA + Tiger & Bear Partners
Last year, LUNA and Tiger & Bear Partners came together to form Australia’s next gen advisory firm. We offer forward-thinking legal, accounting, strategy, M&A and corporate advisory services in one place. Through LUNA, the group focuses on startups, tech and VC, while Tiger & Bear services the mid-market and corporate sectors. But our brands are merely a vehicle to service, we are one team with one dream: to revolutionise business support services in Australia.
Our Accounting team provides end-to-end accounting solutions, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and outstanding client experiences. We pride ourselves on innovation, a strong team culture, and living our core values every day. We embrace technology and continuous learning, encouraging our people to approach challenges with curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset. Our client base includes ambitious entrepreneurs and sophisticated investors, so we look for people who thrive in fast-paced, innovative environments.
Other Benefits include:
- Multiple Locations – We love working together in the flesh! With offices in Melbourne and Sydney in prime locations.
- Parental leave – We’re committed to supporting growing families. All parents receive 12 weeks of fully paid leave on top of the standard government program.
- Extra leave – Enjoy 5 additional days off throughout the year to extend your weekends.
- Work from anywhere – Take advantage of our 2 week remote work program.
- Annual team offsite – Two all company-wide gatherings to connect, reflect, and plan for the future.
- Bonus and Rights Program – All employees benefit in the upside of the business, we all win together.
- Massages and Meditation – Provided at all our hubs. Happy bodies and minds.
Our strength lies in our people – our culture isn’t like the big firms. We operate as an extension to our clients, with a real human-centric approach to every business partner we work with.
Our Values
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Dare to Jump: You embrace risks, knowing that sometimes it leads to success, other times it leads to learning. You aren’t afraid to experiment and try new things if you believe it will bring us long-term success.
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Champion the “We” Over “Me”: You put the business (ours and our clients’) ahead of personal gain, sometimes sacrificing preferences for the greater good, knowing it moves us all forward.
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Live For Solutions: When you share roadblocks or questions, you also share possible solutions. You welcome challenges, knowing that with persistence and problem-solving, you can always find a great solution.
Like what you’ve been reading? Then APPLY! We would love to hear from you, so that we can build together.
Closing date for applications is 20 March 2026. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis.
We value ourselves as an equal opportunity team. All applicants will be considered regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status or identification as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. People of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply!
