Remote Staff Accountant

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Job Title: Remote Staff Accountant (100% Work From Home)

Location: Remote from Latin America

Position Type: Full-time

Salary: $2600 USD/month

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm Eastern Time

Job Overview:

Our client is a steadily growing modern accounting firm for small to mid sized businesses in the US. Their clients are landscapers, roofers, web designers, doctors - busy small business owners who they appreciate dearly. The company provides a monthly subscription for bookkeeping, business taxes, and personal taxes where they serve clients year round.

Responsibilities:

• Bookkeeping, monthly reconciliation, tracking sales tax, handling AP and AR
• Working with more senior staff, you’ll handle much of the day-to-day operations for our clients (transaction entry, invoicing, bill payments, payroll preparation, journal entries, reconciliations, etc.)
• Your daily tasks will be cleanly organized in Canopy, our practice management system, a critical tool that will set you up for success managing work across multiple clients
• While you won’t be responsible for managing client relationships, you’ll interact with clients from time to time, answering specific questions or politely seeking certain information
• As you work, you’ll always stop to ask questions of your team when you aren’t exactly sure what needs to be done - whether inside a client’s books or another client system
• Supporting year end close, entering depreciation schedules, and entering information to help prepare tax returns (you don't need to know tax or do the return)

Qualifications, Skills and Key Competencies:

• +2 years experience working for a US company
• +2 years experience with Quickbooks online
• Excellent written and spoken English, will be client facing.
• Accounting degree
• Tech savvy - able to navigate Zoom, Slack, etc and learn new software quickly
• Ability to manage deadlines across multiple clients with an awareness of what needs to be prioritized
• Exceptional organization skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills with both clients and team members across digital channels and an innate desire to build relationships
• Humility and openness to coaching and critiques; always seeking to improve
• Persistence and an ability to stay on track
• Bookkeeping skills, general knowledge of payroll and accounting principles
• US tax prep experience is nice to have but not necessary

Benefits:

• 10 days paid time off and all US bank holidays off
• Company issued computer
• Opportunity for advancement to learn more, earn more, and grow at their company
• Continuing education