Remote | Flexible Hours | Bookkeeper ID-2871

Finance Pals provides bookkeeping, tax, and CFO help for startups and small business clients. We all wanted more than what traditional jobs offered – we wanted flexible, remote work so that we could enjoy life beyond work :) We want to create an environment that gives flexibility and inspires people to do their best work and lead fulfilling lives. We are happiest when we are challenging ourselves and learning new things but also having a healthy balance to enjoy our hobbies and families.

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Remote Customer Support, $42/hr, Weekend, No Experience
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Virtual Assistant, $42/hr, Evening, Remote, College Student
Live Chat Support, $45/hr, Part-Time, Remote, No Degree
Data Entry, $50/hr, Remote, Evening Job, College Student
Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Weekend, Remote, No Experience
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Remote Customer Support, $45/hr, No Degree, Evening Job
Virtual Assistant, $50/hr, Part-Time, Remote, Weekend Job
Data Entry, $40/hr, Evening Job, No Experience, Remote
Remote Live Chat, $42/hr, Weekend, No Degree, Part-Time
Virtual Assistant, $45/hr, No Experience, Remote, Night Job
Phone Job, $50/hr, Remote, Part-Time, College Student
Remote Data Entry, $42/hr, Evening/Night Job, No Experience
Remote Moderator, $45/hr, No Degree, Weekend Job, Part-Time
Live Chat Support, $50/hr, Remote, Night Shift, No Degree
Virtual Assistant, $40/hr, Weekend, College Student, Remote
Remote Phone Job, $42/hr, Part-Time, No Experience Required
Remote Data Entry, $45/hr, No Degree, Weekend, Night Job
Virtual Assistant, $50/hr, Evening, Remote, College Student
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Desired result for this position - Our clients and our team love working with you. You are learning new accounting skills and industries and getting time to enjoy your life. Some of our clients love working with you so much that they continue to add tasks for you and tell some of their friends what a great job you are doing.

Awesome things about working with us -

  • Part Time / Remote / Flexible Work - Most of the work can be completed at home and you work your own schedule.
  • Help small businesses thrive – We do more than just bookkeeping. We help our customers increase their profits and have fun doing it.
  • Growth Potential - Want to learn about running a business, marketing, managing others, or other aspects of finance? Then this is a great opportunity to join a growing team early.
  • Great Learning Opportunity - You get to work with a variety of awesome and inspiring clients and work with an amazing team to solve fun and complex problems.
  • Live your life - We have one person taking a 6 week RV trip to Alaska this summer and encourage vacations and remote work as much as possible.
  • Autonomy - Say yes or no to work based on your interests and current availability

We are looking for fun, smart and nice people that have some of the following experiences. If you have any of these skills we would love to hear from you.

  • Located in Denver metro area. Occasionally will need to meet clients in person at their offices or coffee shops. This is a requirement.
  • Enter monthly transactions into QBO, Xero, and other SW
  • Monthly reconciliation
  • Invoicing and matching invoice payments to keep AR up to date
  • AP - Enter bills into bill.com, bank ACH, Melio, QBO AP or other software
  • Download bank statements
  • Potential for running payroll for clients
  • Other tasks to help out the team - based on skills and interest

We are a growing firm and have a lot of different clients. These are some of our nice to haves that would be great to call out in your application email -

  • Any tax prep
  • New State setup for Payroll – Register with state agencies to get account numbers
  • Payroll Integration - integrating setup with QBO/Xero
  • Sales tax
  • Excel pivot tables and vlookups
  • QB Desktop, Sage, or other accounting software
  • Accrual accounting and Journal Entries
  • Balance Sheet Cleanup
  • HR or Operations experience

We are doing something different. Indeed makes it really easy to apply by clicking an apply button, which makes it hard to figure out who is truly interested in working for us. If you are truly interested, then please send your resume to rochelle@financepals.com where you answer the following questions for your last position -

1. What were your successes?

2. What were your areas of improvement?

3. What were your bosses strengths and weaker points?

4. Would you be willing to arrange a call with your last boss? What are their contact details? If you are still at that job you can arrange a call with your most recent boss before your current company.

5. What's your best guess as to what your boss will tell me about your overall performance?

6. A list of any of the nice to have experiences you have

7. Please use the subject Bookkeeper Position

IF you want to stand out then include a short video telling a little about yourself. We hope it will be a fun way to show that you are a good problem solver and are truly interested in working with us.

Video Details -

  • Send a video link (no attachments please)
  • If we were doing it ourselves it would be a zoom recording uploaded to YouTube but this is a very different request and you may know better ways to complete the task. Vimeo, Onedrive, and Google Drive are a few other options.

Three Video Questions to Answer -

  • Please tell us a story of how you have demonstrated one of Finance Pals core values. They are listed here or you can learn more about our core values here - https://www.financepals.com/core-values/

1. Communication

2. Adaptable

3. Growth Mindset

4. Problem Solving

5. Team Passion

6. Sparkle

  • Why are you interested in this position?
  • A little about your accounting experience and a finance / accounting issue that you solved.

The rest is up to you and will be a learning experience for us all. Let us know a little about your work background, your hobbies and interests and anything else that makes you awesome. I feel like shorter is better as we will cover specifics during interviews. Thank you for trying this out with us :) We promise to reply to all videos we receive as we know it will take you some time.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $52,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible schedule
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

  • Performance bonus
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