Accounting and advisory careers in North Sydney and Orange.
We do our best work in the moments that matter to clients, and we hire people who feel the same. We are a chartered accounting firm across North Sydney and Orange, and this is what working here looks like before you apply.
Current opportunities.
If one of these fits, we would like to hear from you. If none do, register your interest below and we will keep you in mind.
Senior Accountant, Business Advisory (North Sydney)
We are looking for a senior business advisory accountant who wants their work to be seen and their advice to matter. You will lead client relationships, mentor a growing team, and work directly with associate directors across a varied portfolio of business owners.
What you'll do
- Lead business advisory and tax compliance engagements from start to finish
- Advise business owners on structuring, cash flow, and tax planning
- Prepare and review financial statements and tax returns across company, trust, and individual structures
- Review work and mentor intermediate and graduate accountants
- Work directly with associate directors on a portfolio of established clients
- Help shape how the business advisory team works as we grow
What you'll need
- CA or CPA qualified, or very close to completion
- Strong experience in an Australian public practice or accounting firm
- Confident across company, trust, and individual tax
- Comfortable with cloud accounting platforms such as Xero
- A genuine interest in advisory work, not just compliance
- Clear communication and a real care for the people you work with
SMSF Accountant / Self-Managed Super Fund Specialist (North Sydney)
We are looking for an SMSF accountant who wants to go deep in self-managed super. You will manage a portfolio of funds end to end, work closely with private clients, and have real room to grow your specialism in a focused team.
What you'll do
- Prepare SMSF financial statements, tax returns, and audit workpapers
- Manage fund compliance against current superannuation rules
- Support clients through contributions, pensions, and reporting obligations
- Work alongside advisers on strategy for private clients and family groups
- Keep funds on track through the annual cycle, from data to lodgement
What you'll need
- Hands-on SMSF accounting experience in Australian practice
- Familiarity with SMSF software such as BGL or Class
- Sound knowledge of superannuation and SMSF tax obligations
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach
- CA, CPA, or SMSF qualification an advantage
Intermediate Accountant, Business Services (Orange, NSW)
We are looking for an intermediate accountant ready to build their career in our Orange office. You will work across a broad regional client base, with CA study support, direct mentoring, and a clear path to senior work.
What you'll do
- Prepare financial statements and tax returns across entity types
- Handle BAS, GST, and general compliance for a broad client base
- Build direct client relationships in a regional practice
- Support business owners with day to day accounting questions
- Grow your advisory skills with senior and associate director support
What you'll need
- Two or more years in an Australian accounting firm
- Working towards your CA or CPA qualification
- A solid grounding in tax and accounting fundamentals
- Comfortable with cloud accounting platforms such as Xero
- Happy to be based in or relocating to Orange, NSW
Senior Accountant, Finance Hub (North Sydney)
We are looking for a senior accountant to take a lead role in our Finance Hub, acting as the outsourced finance function for growing businesses. You will own management reporting and cash flow, and work closely with clients as their trusted finance lead.
What you'll do
- Own monthly management reporting and board-ready financials for clients
- Manage cash flow, budgeting, and forecasting for business owners
- Oversee bookkeeping, payroll, and accounts processes end to end
- Work closely with clients as a trusted outsourced finance lead
- Help shape how the Finance Hub delivers as it grows
What you'll need
- CA or CPA qualified with strong management accounting experience
- Confident across Xero and cloud accounting platforms
- Experience owning a client portfolio or a finance function
- A commercial, advisory mindset and clear communication
- Comfortable being a client's main point of contact
R&D Tax Consultant
Prepare and manage R&D Tax Incentive claims end to end for a portfolio of innovative clients, reporting to our R&D Manager, with a clear path to grow as the R&D practice grows.
What you'll do
- Identify and assess eligible R&D activities, both core and supporting, against AusIndustry's legislative definitions
- Prepare and lodge AusIndustry R&D Tax Incentive registrations, and prepare the ATO R&D tax schedule and offset calculations
- Review and allocate eligible R&D expenditure, and make sure records and documentation substantiate each claim
- Write clear, technically sound activity descriptions (hypotheses, experiments and outcomes) that meet ATO and AusIndustry review expectations
- Advise clients on documentation, contemporaneous record keeping and timesheets so claims are audit ready
- Work closely with clients' technical and finance teams, and liaise with AusIndustry and the ATO
- Support R&D reviews and audits, including drafting responses to review letters
- Keep across changes to R&D Tax Incentive legislation, guidance and case law
- Build trusted client relationships and help grow the R&D practice
What you'll need
- Undergraduate and/or postgraduate qualifications in a relevant discipline, which may include Law, Science, Engineering, Computer Science or IT
- A strong understanding of tax and accounting fundamentals
- Around two or more years' experience with the Australian R&D Tax Incentive in a client-facing or consulting role (we will also consider strong candidates from tax or business services keen to specialise)
- Excellent technical writing, with the ability to turn complex technical work into clear, defensible activity descriptions
- Confident, clear communication with both technical and finance stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage deadlines across multiple clients
Experienced Business Services Accountant (Gold Coast, QLD)
An experienced business services and tax role for a CA or CPA accountant to help establish our new Gold Coast office, owning client engagements from compliance through to advisory, with a clear path to senior and leadership work.
What you'll do
- Own business services and tax compliance engagements from start to finish
- Prepare and review financial statements and tax returns across company, trust, and individual structures
- Advise business owners on structuring, cash flow, and tax planning
- Build and manage client relationships across a growing Gold Coast portfolio
- Help establish and grow the new office alongside the directors
- Mentor junior accountants as the local team builds out
What you'll need
- CA or CPA qualified with solid experience in an Australian public practice or accounting firm
- Strong across company, trust, and individual tax
- Confident with cloud accounting platforms such as Xero
- A genuine interest in advisory work, not just compliance
- The initiative and drive to help grow a new office
- Clear communication and real care for the people you work with
Office Manager (Gold Coast, QLD)
The organised, capable person who keeps our new Gold Coast office running, from front of house and administration through to billing and team support, with the autonomy to shape how the office works from day one.
What you'll do
- Run the day to day operations of the Gold Coast office and be its welcoming first point of contact
- Manage reception, client appointments, correspondence and the diary for the local team
- Handle office administration, from onboarding paperwork and document management to billing and invoicing support
- Coordinate with the North Sydney head office on systems, HR and practice administration
- Keep the office, facilities and suppliers organised and running smoothly
- Support the accountants and directors so they can focus on clients
What you'll need
- Experience in office or practice management, ideally in accounting or professional services
- Exceptionally organised, with a calm, proactive approach to a busy office
- Warm, professional communication, as you will be the face of the office for clients
- Confident with everyday systems such as Microsoft Office, with practice or accounting software like Xero a plus
- A self-starter comfortable helping stand up a brand new office
- Discretion and genuine care for the people and clients you support
Do not see your role here? We are always interested in talented people. Register your interest and we will be in touch when something fits.
What to expect when you apply.
A straightforward process, with no surprises and no wasted time.
You apply
Send your details through the form, for a live role or a general expression of interest.
We talk
An initial conversation to understand what you are looking for and where you might fit.
You meet the team
A deeper conversation with the people you would work alongside, including a partner.
We decide together
A clear offer, an honest picture of the role, and a proper start when you join.
What makes Prime Partners a good firm to work for.
We are building one of the best chartered accounting firms to work for in Australia: real advisory work, genuine client relationships, and a culture where life comes first. Here is what that means in practice.
Flexible and hybrid working
Hybrid working and flexible arrangements built around how good work actually gets done, with trust as the starting point. Life comes first here, and it is a genuine commitment rather than a slogan.
CA and CPA study support
We back people working towards their Chartered Accountant (CA) or CPA qualification with study support, paid study leave, and direct mentoring from qualified accountants and partners.
Real advisory work, early
You work close to the clients you advise on structuring, tax planning and growth, not just compliance. You are backed early and given real responsibility rather than kept at arm’s length.
A clear path forward
The route to more responsibility is set out plainly rather than left to guesswork, with direct mentoring from partners and associate directors invested in your development.
The depth of a larger firm
We pair the depth and capability of a larger firm with the genuine, lasting client relationships that bigger firms stopped being able to offer, across business advisory, private client, SMSF and our Finance Hub.
Two offices, room to grow
Offices in North Sydney and Orange, NSW, and a firm growing deliberately toward a national presence, so there is room to build a long career and shape how the business grows.
Prime Partners exists for the moments that matter. The right decision, made at the right time, changes what becomes possible for a business, a family, a future.
Most of what an accountant does is steady and necessary, and we do it properly. But the work we care about most is being genuinely useful when the stakes are high and the decision is real. That’s the standard everything else in here is built around, and it’s why we exist.
Life comes first here, and it is a real commitment rather than a slogan. The shape of your life will change while you are here, and the business should move with that.
The business growing companies choose when they want real advice from people who know them.
We want to be the business that growing companies across Australia choose when they want real advice from people who actually know them. A business with the depth and capability of the big end of town, and the relationships that the big end of town stopped being able to offer.
That means a national presence, offices across the country, and a reputation that reaches well beyond North Sydney. We’re building toward that deliberately, and we’re not in a hurry to cut corners to get there. The growth we’re pursuing has to be the right kind, with the right people, serving clients the way we believe they should be served.
You’re part of that. Every client relationship handled well, every piece of advice that lands at the right moment, every colleague who develops and stays, that’s how we get there. The goal is ambitious and it’s meant to be, because the version of this business we’re building is worth building.
The things we kept coming back to.
These are not values we arrived at in a workshop. They are the things that revealed what actually mattered to us, in client conversations and in the hard moments.
The right decision at the right time
The right decision, made at the right time, changes everything. We stay close to the detail and think about what the advice actually unlocks, not just whether it is technically correct.
The relationship is the work
We carry each other’s context, cover for each other properly, and treat the team around us with the same care we would want shown to our clients. Presence matters in every direction.
Honest advice is a form of care
The slightly uncomfortable conversation is usually the one that matters most. We would rather have it early, when there is still room to act, than avoid it until the options have narrowed.
We do what we say we’ll do
Deadlines, commitments, follow-ups, these things matter here. If something changes, we say so before it becomes someone else’s problem. Reliability is noticed in both directions.
What people ask about Prime Partners.
Working at Prime
Prime Partners is a chartered accounting and advisory firm with offices in North Sydney and Orange, New South Wales. We are growing toward a national presence, with more locations to come.
We hire across business advisory, private client and SMSF advisory, and our Finance Hub, from intermediate and graduate accountants through to senior advisory roles in North Sydney and Orange. We also welcome general expressions of interest when no current role fits.
Our vacancies are recruited by Prime People, the specialist accounting and finance recruitment arm of the Prime Partners group, which lists every live role across the group in one place.
Life comes first here, and that is a real commitment. We offer hybrid working and arrangements built around how good work actually gets done, with trust as the starting point.
We pair the depth and capability of a larger firm with genuine, lasting client relationships. You work close to the clients you advise, you are backed early, and the path to more responsibility is set out clearly rather than left to guesswork.
Prime Partners is built around meaningful advisory work and a culture where life comes first. We offer flexible and hybrid working, CA and CPA study support, structured mentoring from partners, and a clearly set out path to more responsibility, across our North Sydney and Orange offices. People are backed early and work close to the clients they advise, which is why we consider ourselves one of the best chartered accounting firms to work for in Australia.
Benefits include flexible and hybrid working built around how good work gets done, CA and CPA study and professional development support, direct mentoring from partners and associate directors, varied advisory work beyond compliance, and a clear progression path. Life comes first here, and that is a genuine commitment.
Yes. Prime Partners supports team members working towards their Chartered Accountant (CA) or CPA qualification with study support and direct mentoring from qualified accountants and partners, including for our graduate and intermediate accountants.
About Prime Partners
Prime Partners is a chartered accounting and advisory firm in North Sydney and Orange. We provide business advisory, tax and compliance, self-managed super fund (SMSF) services, and an outsourced Finance Hub for business owners and private clients across Australia.
We work with business owners and growing companies, family groups, and private clients, including those running self-managed super funds. Our clients want real advice from people who actually know them, with the depth of a larger firm and a genuine relationship behind it.
Yes. We have a dedicated SMSF and private advisory team handling self-managed super fund administration, compliance, financial statements, and tax, alongside broader private wealth and structuring advice.
Yes. Prime Partners is a chartered accounting and advisory firm and registered tax agent, based in North Sydney with a second office in Orange, New South Wales.
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