Junior Associate Bookkeeper

Hours: Full-time 40 hours with a flexibly set schedule within Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm CST

Are you searching for a team where you can use your bookkeeping skills to empower small businesses across the country helping them to grow and thrive by understanding their numbers?

Sidekick Accounting is excited to be hiring for a Full Time Junior Bookkeeping Associate to join our remote team. This is an existing position within our growing business. While our headquarters are in Wisconsin, our team spans across the States, offering a flexible and family-first culture. At Sidekick Accounting Services, our mission is to do more than just client bookkeeping and taxes. We get to influence successful small business owners by offering education and guidance regarding their finances to help them succeed. You’ll be a part of a team that values integrity, consistency, communication, change and productivity.

Our team uses their superpowers to serve as high-flying Sidekicks ensuring our clients have what they need. We work within a fast & efficient remote environment to provide a variety of services for a diverse clientele of small businesses across the country. Our employees are the real heroes!

The ideal candidate enjoys building relationships, loves truly digging into the details while helping clients promptly and enjoys working in a remote environment that is always evolving to better serve our clients. As a full-time Junior Bookkeeping Associate, you will work a set schedule that allows some flexibility within your work schedule to be sure your workload is performed. Attending monthly and weekly meetings will include team engagement and r client meetings.

Success will be easy for you if you excel at time management, organizational skills, and master the following processes & procedures. Your day-to-day work will consist of 35% client facing activities & 65% bookkeeping processes including client interaction and meetings, our daily Team Up, entering payroll journal entries, completing sales adjustments, processing Client’s accounts payable and Client’s accounts receivable, and compiling data and analysis for financial reporting. If you love checking projects off your list for that sense of completion, then this job is for you.

Junior Bookkeeping Associate responsibilities include:

- Processing multiple Clients’ Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable transactions

- Accurately record payments/deposits, expenses, payroll wages, sales & draws into QuickBooks

- Review and correct Client General Ledger entries & Chart of Accounts allocations

- Prepare, Review and Deliver timely and accurate Client Financial Reports as assigned

- Proactively ensure all process steps are completed accurately and timely

- Meeting or exceeding all Key Performance Indicators as structured

- Meet or exceed all deadlines

- Responsible for bank & account reconciliations for multiple client accounts.

- Compile Budget/Financial Modeling

- Attend, timely & prepared, meetings with Clients as scheduled

- Serve internal colleagues and external team members and clients in a positive, professional, and timely manner in all interactions

- Successfully facilitate client project coordination to ensure priority and timely completion.

- Attend, engage and be prepared for our team meetings, monthly & weekly

- Professionally and concurrently utilize company email, project management, and document sharing systems to support our paperless workflows

- Assist in other tasks as assigned

Requirements include:

- 3+ years’ experience in Small Business Bookkeeping including financial reporting and journal entries

- 3+ years’ experience with facilitating multiple client accounts at the same time

- Minimum of 1 year of professional experience in a remote work environment

- Excel in QuickBooks Online with a minimum of 3 years of experience

- Excellence in self- motivation to meet or exceed priorities consistently

- Excellent at responsive and proactive communications

- Possess a high personal sense of urgency

- High Attention to Detail

Preferred, but not required:

- Experience with Podio, Front, and Sharefile

Are you prepared to live the vivid vision with our 5 pillars of: integrity, consistency, communication, change and proactivity? – Apply now to become our newest Sidekick!

Benefits and compensation:

This position is eligible for an hourly rate of $18-$20 an hour dependent upon experience. Additional benefits are eligible after 90 days and include bonuses, paid time off, and paid holidays. We offer a Simple IRA and match of up to 3%, dental and vision and, supplemental insurance options. Company-provided equipment and employee gifts and celebrations.

Background checks: All successful candidates will be required to pass a criminal background check for the protection of our staff and clients as a part of their employment.

Please send a cover letter including why you are looking for work right now and a current resume to hr@sidekick-accounting.com.

Sidekick Accounting is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes without regard to race, religion, creed, color, citizenship, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.

We are only accepting applicants electronically – no phone calls please.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid training
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus opportunities

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• QuickBooks: 2 years (Required)
• Bookkeeping: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote