Hire a remote bookkeeper who closes your books on time

A bookkeeper keeps the day-to-day financial record of your business accurate and current. That means categorizing bank and card transactions, entering and paying bills, invoicing customers and applying payments, reconciling every bank and credit card account each month and handing your owner, accountant or CPA a clean set of books. A full-charge bookkeeper goes further, taking the books through to monthly financial statements and simple adjusting entries.

Bookkeepers are hired by small businesses that have outgrown doing it themselves, by multi-location operators such as restaurants, clinics, property managers and contractors, and by CPA and bookkeeping firms that need more hands for monthly client work. In a firm, the bookkeeper may work in many different client files in a single week and needs to switch context fast. In-house, they know one business deeply, including its vendors, its quirks and which customer always pays late.

Bookkeeping is detail work, but it is also constant small questions: what was this $1,240 charge, is this vendor a 1099 contractor, should this deposit be a loan or revenue. A nearshore bookkeeper who works your hours can ask and get an answer the same day, so the uncategorized pile never builds up. It also means they can reach your bank, vendors or payment processor during U.S. business hours when something does not tie.

Tell us what you run on and what you need covered. We screen for hands-on experience in QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop or Xero, bank feed and rules management, monthly reconciliations, AP and AR basics, W-9 collection and 1099 preparation, and sales tax tracking. If you're in an industry with its own wrinkles, such as job costing for contractors or class tracking for multiple locations, we'll screen for that too.