Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SBC Bookkeeping & Consulting supports small and medium-sized businesses with bookkeeping and financial services. The Client Accountant/Full Charge Bookkeeper will manage a portfolio of clients, provide accurate financial reporting and explanations, lead onboarding and cleanup engagements, and help improve operational processes while mentoring junior bookkeepers.
Responsibilities
- Manage full-cycle bookkeeping for a portfolio of small and medium-sized business clients
- Prepare accurate monthly financial statements and explain the results to business owners
- Lead new-client onboarding and establish strong working relationships
- Complete complex QuickBooks cleanup and catch-up engagements
- Build and maintain charts of accounts and class, location, and project-cost tracking
- Reconcile bank, credit card, payroll, accounts receivable, and accounts payable activity
- Prepare payroll journal entries, without processing payroll
- Assist clients with basic cash-flow forecasting and management reporting
- Coordinate professionally with clients’ CPAs, fractional CFOs, and other financial partners
- Help improve SBC’s workflows, quality standards, technology, and delivery processes
- Mentor junior bookkeepers and help assess the quality of their work as the team grows
Skills
- At least five years of accounting or bookkeeping experience
- Experience working for an accounting firm, bookkeeping company, or outsourced accounting provider
- Full-charge bookkeeping experience across multiple clients
- Experience in complex cleanup/catchup services including financial statement and COA review, diagnosis, and correction
- At least an associate degree in accounting or a similar field
- Strong QuickBooks Online skills
- Experience with accounting practice-management or client-delivery software, such as Double or a comparable platform
- Ability to interpret financial statements and explain financial information clearly to business owners
- Strong judgment, attention to detail, professionalism, and commitment to client service
- Central Ohio residency and the ability to attend weekly meetings in Columbus and occasional client-site visits
- Authorization to work in the United States and ability to pass a background check
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, business, economics, finance, or a related field
- QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certification, or willingness to obtain it after joining SBC
- Experience with cash-flow forecasting
- Experience mentoring bookkeepers or reviewing their work
Benefits
- After successfully completing the introductory employment period, you will be eligible to participate in SBC’s performance bonus programs.
- This is a full-time, primarily work-from-home position.
- Outside of those commitments, you will have substantial flexibility to manage your own day.
- As SBC grows, the role will have opportunities to grow with it.
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