Bookkeeper - Work from home, flexible hours

Training & development

• Bonus based on performance
• Flexible schedule

Seeking an experienced, independent Bookkeeper to manage a diverse and complex portfolio of client accounts. This role requires a professional who pairs technical accounting mastery-including full reconciliations, payroll, and fixed assets-with excellent organizational agility. Operating with minimal supervision, you will ensure high-density precision across all client ledger activities while upholding strict firm communication standards.
Portfolio Management & Financial Accuracy
Comprehensive Reconciliations: Perform full monthly bank, credit card, and loan statement reconciliations, independently identifying and resolving complex transactional discrepancies.
General Ledger Maintenance: Prepare and post standard and adjusting journal entries, maintain accurate fixed asset registers, and calculate depreciation schedules.
Advanced AP/AR Operations: Manage client vendor payments, oversee accounts receivable aging analysis, and execute proactive collections workflows.
Payroll Execution: Handle regular payroll processing cycles, guarantee exact calculations, and assist with year-end and periodic payroll tax filings.
Account Autonomy: Maintain timely, precise records for multiple client accounts simultaneously, executing tasks independently with minimal oversight.
Operational Oversight & Quality Control
Work Review: Provide quality assurance and review the transactional accounting entries of entry-level Client Data Specialists to maintain firm-wide accuracy.
Specialized Accounting Projects: Lead targeted historical clean-up efforts and specialized financial projects as assigned by leadership.
Professional Tenure: Minimum of 3 years of progressive, hands-on professional bookkeeping experience.
Accounting Frameworks: Intermediate to advanced understanding of core bookkeeping principles, internal controls, and standard corporate accounting practices.
Software Ecosystem: Advanced proficiency in QuickBooks Online (QBO) and practical familiarity with Google Workspace.
Intuit Bookkeeping Certification
QBO Level 1 Certification
QBO Payroll Certification
Autonomy: Strong personal initiative with a proven ability to manage time effectively and work productively in an independent environment.
Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $20.00 - $26.00 per hour

Jackson Hewitt is an innovator with nearly 6,000 locations, and we're on a mission to change the face of the tax industry. We are an industry-leading provider of full-service individual, federal, and state income tax preparation with offices across the country. Jackson Hewitt is always seeking to improve its financial products, promotions, and partnerships so clients get more.
Taxes are fun (really!)
Jackson Hewitt is proud to offer free tax training as well as continuing education for tax preparers across the country. With nearly 6,000 locations to choose from, there's likely a Jackson Hewitt location near you, including at your local Walmart store. Tax preparers have flexible scheduling and various rewards too.
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