The community for offshore accounting operations.
A working network of Australian firms, verified mentors, and Vietnam-based professionals — exchanging Xero workflows, BAS playbooks, payroll SOPs, and the operational standards that move careers and practices forward.
Range: AUD 28–42/hr depending on Xero+XPM exposure, STP2 experience, and direct client comms. 6 firms hiring this month.
After 3 years running an offshore pod of 12, the single biggest lift came from a Loom-first rule for anything beyond 4 lines. Sharing our async escalation matrix below.
Lock Dext publish to a single user, force category-before-publish, reconcile in Xero with bank rules tuned per supplier. Duplicate-rate dropped from 6% to <0.5%.
Top 3 by frequency: (1) income type misclassification for working holiday makers, (2) leave loading not split out, (3) salary sacrifice reported as gross. Checklist inside.
We run a 3pm Hanoi cutoff for client queries so AU reviewers get a clean handover by 8am Sydney. Curious how other offshore pods structure their quarterly BAS cycle handoffs without burning weekends.
Hard skills are table stakes. The differentiators: visible Xero portfolio, demonstrated AU client comms samples, and one published workflow improvement.
Xero Advisor → Payroll Admin → Payroll Certified → XPM Essentials. Skip the migration cert until year 2 — it's not weighted by recruiters yet.
Week 1 shadow only. Week 2 one client, supervised. Week 3 two clients + first Loom. Week 4 BAS dry-run on a closed period. Saves 4 weeks of ramp.
A decision tree that reduces 'ask the AU senior' tickets by ~70%. Mixed-use → apportion via method statement; FBT exposure → flag, don't claim; capital → check threshold.
Top 3 referenced threads this week → Linh's BAS handover, Marcus's Loom-first SOP, Hieu's STP2 checklist. Combined into a 1-page operational brief.