About the role
The Company Accountant is a sole-charge, hands-on role reporting to Jed (Founder & Director). You sit on the management team of five, with a part-time Payroll Administrator reporting to you. Full-time, 32 hours over four days (Mon–Thu) at the office with the team, with scope for 37.5 hours over five days if that suits you and the role better. Your numbers get used—café managers run their Monday on your weekly report, and you're in the room at the monthly Numbers Meeting.
Finance & Administration is one of the six systems that run the business, and this role owns it. You will learn each process properly, see what's clunky, make it simpler or automate it, then write it up as clear steps so everyone else on the team can do their part well.
Key responsibilities
Daily bank and POS reconciliations in Xero across three sites
Weekly sales, wages and café reports
Payroll oversight for 60 staff through iPayroll and Deputy
Supplier payments, creditors and debtors, cashflow management
Month-end close and management reporting
GST and provisional tax with external accountants (Grant Thornton)
Stocktakes
Learn processes, identify improvements, automate where possible, and document clear steps for others
About you
A qualified accountant, or an experienced sole-charge accountant/bookkeeper who's run a small business's books end to end
Strong in Xero, NZ payroll and GST
Hospitality or retail experience a bonus
Fluent with AI (Claude, ChatGPT or similar)—you use it every day to draft, check, build and automate
Organised and good with people—comfortable working with management team, café managers, suppliers, and owners
Run the loop naturally—learn it, improve it, document it, train others
Comfortable with change, yours and other people's
About us
Rollickin started in 2013 with a horse float and a city still finding its feet after the earthquakes. We're now three cafés (New Regent St, Cashel St and Riccarton), each fresh churning small-batch high-end gelato onsite, a central bakery making the hokey pokey, brownie, biscuits and sauces that go into it, and 60-odd staff. We're a young driven team, we scoop fun, Christchurch community and we obsess over making the good stuff.
Benefits
$70,000–$80,000 for the 32-hour week (that equates to $82k–$94k at 37.5 hours)
A four-day week
A carpark allowance
Gelato allowance
A seat at the table of an owner-operated business that's still growing