Senior Accountant / Assistant Manager / Manager
- Manage accounting and tax matters for a varied portfolio of private clients.
- Delegate work across onshore and offshore teams while mentoring junior staff.
- Build strong client relationships and ensure timely completion of tasks.
Take the next step in your career with direct access to private clients, genuine ownership of your portfolio and exposure to HNW families and businesses.
Whether you’re a Senior Accountant ready to step up, an Assistant Manager looking to broaden your experience, or an established Manager seeking to make an impact, we’d like to hear from you.
You’ll work across a varied portfolio of private clients, managing accounting and tax matters, building direct client relationships and taking responsibility for keeping work moving from start to finish.
Depending on your experience, you’ll also review work, delegate across onshore and offshore team members, mentor junior staff and work closely with senior leaders across the Adelaide office.
What You’ll Do
- Coordinate workflow across multiple client matters and keep jobs moving through to completion
- Delegate work across onshore and offshore team members
- Review work prepared by junior staff and provide clear feedback
- Manage deadlines, priorities and progress across a busy client portfolio
- Liaise with senior team members on job status, issues and next steps
- Build strong relationships with clients and respond to day-to-day queries
- Review financial statements and related accounting work
- Coordinate and review tax returns and other compliance work
- Support and mentor less experienced accountants
- Manage job budgets, WIP and billing at the appropriate level
About You
You’ll bring relevant public practice experience across business services and tax, together with strong technical accounting and taxation knowledge and the confidence to work directly with clients.
Depending on your level of experience, you’ll also bring:
- A completed CA or CPA qualification
- Strong technical accounting and taxation knowledge
- Confidence managing multiple clients, jobs and competing deadlines
- Well-developed communication skills and a genuine client-service mindset
- The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across different locations
- Experience working with or delegating to offshore teams will be well regarded
- For more senior candidates, experience reviewing work, delegating effectively and developing junior team members
- A practical, proactive approach and the ability to adapt as priorities and ways of working evolve
Culture & Benefits
Joining Mutual Trust offers you the opportunity to enjoy:
- Supportive flexible work arrangements.
- Opportunity to purchase up to four weeks’ additional leave each year.
- Inclusive and equitable culture - proudly recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (Workplace Gender Equality Agency).
- Award winning industry leadership - winner of the Euromoney Private Banking Awards 2026 - Australia’s Best for Family Office Services.
- Professional training and development for staff of all levels.
- Yearly health and well-being allowance and ongoing activities.
- Employee assistance program that offers free counselling and support for you and your family.
- Annual performance payment (based on your performance and Firm-wide results).
- Paid community/volunteer days and an award-winning staff giving program.
- Reward and Recognition program.
- Ongoing staff entertainment.
About Us
Mutual Trust is a Multi-Family Office which provides integrated wealth services to some of Australia’s most successful families, family businesses, trustees, not-for-profits and individuals. Our purpose is to help families achieve what matters most.
About Our Team
Mutual Trust has over 250 staff, located across our offices in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. Our team enjoys a fun and engaging culture. We have diverse roles and opportunities across accounting, tax, wealth management, family office advisory, agri-business, trustee and philanthropy competencies, supported by a broad corporate team of legal, financial, marketing and P&C professionals.
How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now with your resume and cover letter.
Only applicants with permanent residency or without visa restrictions will be considered.
Reference number: 1486105
Profession:Tax, Accounting, Consulting & SuperannuationVarious Opportunities
Company: Mutual Trust
Date posted: 6th Oct, 2026
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