Logistics & Accounts Assistant (004 - 0489)

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Coordinate logistics and freight activities for a family-run manufacturer, ensuring smooth operations and administrative support across sales, marketing, and warehouse teams.

​​Looking for Philippines-based candidates

Job Role: Logistics & Accounts Assistant (004 - 0489)

Work Schedule: This role is expected to align with the AU business hours (approx. 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday to Friday) for collaboration, but as a contractor, you’ll have flexibility in how you manage your time.

Contract Type: Independent Contractor Agreement; Remote

Who We Are: At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be engaged directly by the client as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home.

Who The Client Is: They are an established, family-run manufacturer with long experience in producing specialised materials used in water and air treatment. Using locally sourced inputs, the business develops refined filtration and purification products that support a range of environmental and industrial applications. Their work helps public and private sector partners maintain clean water and air, backed by a long-standing focus on quality, reliability, and sustainable practices.

Role Overview: The Logistics & Account Assistant supports the sales, operations, and warehouse teams by coordinating freight and logistics activities across the business. This role also provides day-to-day administrative support to sales and marketing, ensuring smooth communication, accurate documentation, and efficient handling of logistics-related tasks for all departments that require freight support.

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Quoting freight, domestic and export. Extending the freight network of the client to ensure cost competitiveness.
  • Generating freight documentation for exports and imports (20 hours a week liaising with customers)
  • Tracking imports and exports containers – ANYTHING THAT MOVES he/she’s the conduit for it.
  • Use of planner, Microsoft word, sharepoint, salesforce and xero to coordinate shipments & respond very quickly to customer requirements.
  • Export and domestic freight rate excels.
  • Invoices and closing off opps on salesforce when invoices come through Manage and maintain computer-based accounting systems
  • Maintain and organise internal systems and filing
  • Create & execute procedures for freight.
  • Creating pallet labels
  • Produce reports and statements
  • Complete import and export documentation and filing in SP and on SF.
  • Assistance with sample preparation and despatch
  • General administrative tasks

Requirements

  • Strong aptitude with a high level of attention to detail
  • Highly organized, conscientious, and patient; thrives in structured environments
  • Type A personality with the ability to manage tasks accurately and efficiently
  • Previous experience in freight forwarding, including:
  • Export documentation
  • Making and managing freight bookings
  • Proficient in Salesforce, Xero, and Microsoft 365 applications
  • Strong time-management skills and ability to handle multiple priorities

Work Arrangement & Expectations:

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.

To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:

  • Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
  • Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)

At Hunt St we help Australian companies directly hire top 5% remote talent in the Philippines. You will be hired directly by the client, typically as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home.

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