Accountant (Mid-Senior)

About Halfbrick

Halfbrick is a game developing studio that is globally recognised for its success with phone games such as Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. Previously headquartered in Brisbane, Halfbrick is now fully remote and present all around the world. Halfbrick is one of Australia’s longest running and most successful game developers. Our success is built on a culture that encourages passion, enthusiasm, a willingness to learn and an openness towards trying different approaches to how we make games.

Why you’ll love it

We believe our culture is a leading factor to our success and helps us to attract and retain the best talent! We work hard to foster an intensely collaborative, fun, and creative environment, with training and professional growth opportunities at our forefront. We strongly believe and endorse equal opportunity employment and value diversity at Halfbrick. We’re a tight knit crew who celebrate self-expression, and hey, some perks never hurt either.

Here are just a few of the things we like to offer our Bricks:

• Salary sacrificing.

• Career development and mentorship.

• Freedom to work on games you’re interested in.

• 100% company transparency.

• Mental health support.

• Flexible working hours.

• Part time work options.

• Fully remote working.

• We hire globally and all our opportunities are available world-wide.

• Salary reviews.

• Bonuses.

• Open management without bureaucracy.

• Charity and Meditation leave.

• Loads of social events.

• Awesome rewards and recognition opportunities.

About the opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a mid-senior level Accountant to join our team. You’ll be a master at crunching the numbers, and constantly working to ensure our teams can continue to create amazing gaming experiences.  

We pride ourselves on creating games that people remember for a lifetime and believe that comes from having superstar teams. We have an awesome opportunity to help us transform game entertainment through quality content and innovative ideas. We are committed to developing our employees and you will be given the opportunity to grow inside a friendly and professional team of hard-working, dedicated, and incredibly talented individuals. In return for offering us a skill set that is unmatched and a talent for what you do, you’ll be surrounded by company that is incredibly bright, supportive, and creative.

The remuneration for this role is $70,000 - $100,000 AUD depending on experience. At Halfbrick we pay harmonise, so it doesn’t matter where in the world you are, our salaries are based off Australian pay standards.

We are also fully remote and base our hiring decisions down to the best suited candidate – not where you live! You can join our growing global presence!

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate capability and high-quality work.

• Have a high attention to detail

• Quickly disseminate and adopt new processes and methodology.

• Work with and assist your peers to develop world class content, with a focus on innovation and creativity.

• Question and seek information from peers.

• Constructively contribute to team culture through positive attitude.

• Articulate concepts and ideas in a clear and unambiguous way.

• Draw upon personal experience to determine best approach for task completion with an emphasis on reducing cycles of iteration and churn.

• Check own work for quality and accuracy.

• Lead and oversee your teams’ day-to-day activities, providing continuous feedback and empowering team members to continuously grow and excel within their roles and responsibilities.   

• Take full ownership of the month-end closing process and driving the timely completion.

• Management of the Accounts Payable and Receivable function.  

• Responsible for various revenue reconciliations.  

• Review of monthly reconciliations prepared by the team prior to sign off by the CFO.

• Reviewing and preparation of the BAS/FBT returns, prepared by the Senior Accountant.  

• Assist the CFO in managing the relationship with the auditors and ensuring audit requests are completed on time and within budget.  

• Be responsible for finding and implementing solutions on complex issues (both financial and operational) with a constant mindset of continuous improvement e.g., day to day efficiency gains, internal control improvements and month end close process, tech/tool enhancements.

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor of Accounting or Finance.

• Proficient in Xero and Excel.

• Demonstrated ability to influence decision through effective verbal and written communication.

• Experience in developing financial reporting/scalable processes.

• Strategic thinker with a commercial focus and strong time management skills.   

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and consistently meet deadlines both personally and as part of the Finance team. 

Pluses

• Previous accounting and management experience.

• Familiarity with the App Development process.

• Skilled in data visualisation using Google Data Studio and Looker.

The successful candidate

Perhaps you’ve spent one too many nights up late gaming… Possibly you have a vendetta for fruit… Either way, you love games and more specifically, you love our games and you want to be part of creating something special! If you think you have what it takes to raise our talent bar, then you're exactly what we're looking for.

At Halfbrick, we have an emphasis on generalists to help us reach our goals - people who are explorers and learners and have a diverse knowledge to draw from (or interested in obtaining one). We understand and appreciate specialized talent but we encourage all of our Bricks to generalize their skillset so they can collaborate effectively and see the bigger picture. And don't worry, you don't have to already be a generalist - becoming one is as easy as:

• Saying yes to new opportunities

• Dabbling in different things

• Never stop improving (there's always new things to learn)

• Mind your gaps (identify what you're missing and bridge the gaps)