Bookkeeper for Accounting Firm

We are an accounting firm based in Missouri, and we are looking to hire a junior bookkeeper to update and maintain accurate books on behalf of our clients.

Our minimum requirements for this job are:

-2 years experience in bookkeeping (within the last 4 years)
-2 years experience in Quickbooks Online (within the last 4 years)
-2 years experience in Quickbooks Desktop (within the last 4 years)
-A highly functional working computer and access to a backup computer
-A fast, stable Internet connection and access to a backup Internet connection

Please note that even if you have bookkeeping and Quickbooks experience, if you’ve only ever done bookkeeping for one company, this will be a very different role. In this position, you will be working with many different clients and many different types of businesses. In one day, you may perform work for 5 different clients. To be successful in this type of role, you will need to have a strong grasp on accounting principles and be able to think about how they apply to all the different clients you will perform work for. Please know that if you apply for this job, we will be asking you specifically about how well you think you can handle these responsibilities.

While your technical skills and experience are important, we are more concerned with hiring a quality person for this position. Having and demonstrating certain personality and character traits is more important to us than simply knowing how to do the work. Some of the traits we’re looking for are:

-Willingness to learn and grow
-Being willing and courageous enough to give feedback and suggest improvements to processes and workflows (we’re looking for you to be a valuable, contributing team member who makes our company better)
-Open communication: being honest and speaking up when you have questions, concerns or problems (we don’t ever want someone that works here to feel too embarrassed to ask questions; asking questions is how everyone learns and grows)
-Motivated to take on more responsibility as time goes on and you become more comfortable working together
-Desire to be a true member of a team (We realize that it can be intimidating working remotely for people in a different country, and that a lot of times US companies treat their remote workers poorly. We’re looking to hire someone not only to get work done and become a reliable employee, but also to find someone to build a relationship and friendship with. We want you to get your work done, but we also want you to have fun while you do it, and for you to feel like you are a respected and appreciated part of our community. We’ve heard stories of companies with remote employees that come to visit them in the US, or that they go to the Philippines to visit them. We’d love to build that kind of relationship with the person we hire.)

If you are good at what you do and the list of personality traits above describes you well, we’d love to look at your application and talk more.

Lastly, attention to detail is an important quality for any bookkeeper. If you’d like to apply for this job, in your application, be sure to include at least one sentence telling us what your favorite American movie is and why.