Job Vacancies at Xero

Why Xero...

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we’re not only helping small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you’ll make an impact …

• This role is primarily to expand Xero’s educational content which is applicable to prospective and existing partners, end-users and industry bodies. The role will involve liaising with various partners, community groups and customers to identify course/content requirements for Xero South Africa and to create high quality digital education.
• The Education Specialist will also deliver training via classrooms, scheduled webinars and a larger scale industry events.
• You will be responsible for producing and writing materials for training on core Xero and adjacent products for SMB’s and accounting partners as well as project managing the creation of content through either external or internal writers.
• You will get involved in facilitating webinars and face to face sessions with partners and customers to a world class industry standards and provide assistance and coaching to third party content creators to facilitate high quality production and delivery of webinars and recorded material, undertaking train the trainer activity when appropriate.

What You’ll Bring…

• A real passion for cloud accounting, excellent practical accounting skills and a relevant accounting qualification as well as a passion and desire to make a real difference where you will contribute as a member of a dynamic team.
• With a strong audio voice, good video editing & presentation skills as well as a proven track record in training delivery, you will have a real desire to take ownership and drive projects forward.
• You will be highly organised with the ability to work autonomously and demonstrate initiative and innovative thinking whilst also able to think outside of the box to come up with innovative solutions.
• This role is based in our Cape Town office, but will have regular travel.

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Why Xero?

At Xero, we’re here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we’re not only helping small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

What You Will Do...

• You’ll be responsible for creating independent, skilled and confident Xero Partners, namely accountants within Accountancy Practices or Bookkeepers.
• You will also responsible for the implementation and delivery of project plans enabling our Partners to implement their own online strategies. You will be working closely with our sales and education teams both in South Africa and the UK to ensure our Partners are extremely well serviced.
• This role will be responsible for supporting our partners, based predominantly in Johannesburg.

What You Will Bring…

• You’ll work closely with our Accounting Partners as well as stakeholders within Xero, developing and implementing plans ensuring risks or obstacles are managed effectively. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are required in order to support and influence alongside excellent presentation skills.
• Ideally, you’ll have a background in accountancy or accounting software. Experience of working either within an accounting practice or as a part of a SaaS deployment consultancy team is desirable and knowledge of working with Xero or any other cloud based software would be advantageous.
• Any experience of SaaS/Cloud based software implementations would be highly beneficial but not essential.

The Nature Of The Work Determines That, Although You’ll Be Home-based, The Majority Of Your Working Week Will Be On-site At Partner Offices Across Johannesburg