CPA / Senior Accountant

What You'll Do

• Month and Year End Close: Post accruals, prepaids, and adjusting entries, then close a trial balance you can defend line by line.
• Statements and Analysis: Build the financial statements, then explain the variances and what is actually driving them.
• Tax Preparation Support: Assemble workpapers, schedules, and reconciliations for the client's tax firm and answer their follow ups.
• Compliance and Controls: Keep accounting treatment consistent with US GAAP and flag where a weak process leaves the client exposed.
• Reviewing the Bookkeeping: Check the coding beneath you and fix entries that would distort the statements before anyone reads them.
• Advising the Owner: Turn the numbers into a short plain recommendation about cash, margin, hiring, or spending.

Do I Need a CPA to Apply?

A CPA or an equivalent qualification is required here, and there is no softer version of that answer. Clients are handing over statements, tax workpapers, and compliance questions, so they need somebody already credentialed. If you qualified as a chartered accountant outside the US, apply. What we check then is whether your US GAAP knowledge is current and usable.

What Hours Will I Work?

Core US business hours, though you control the shape of your day more than most roles on this site. Deep work fits where you choose to put it. The exception is quarter close and tax season, when the outside firm sets the deadlines and the weeks get long, followed by genuinely quiet stretches once filings are out.

Can I Apply If I'm Not Based in the Philippines?

Location is not a factor in this role. A qualification that holds up and support behind every figure you present are what we assess, and we place accountants who are hired from anywhere in the world. The practical requirements are ordinary: dependable internet, a private workspace, and enough overlap with US hours to reach your client.

How Much Do Remote Senior Accountants Earn?

$5 to $10 / hr, paid weekly in USD, plus bonuses. That is the widest range on the site, and where you sit in it tracks scope. Reviewing a bookkeeper's close sits toward the lower end, while owning multi entity consolidation, the tax package, and advisory work sits at the top. Nothing is a surprise: the rate is settled with you before you say yes to a client.

What Software Will I Be Working In?

Usually QuickBooks Online Accountant or Xero, with Excel or Google Sheets carrying the analytical work, plus whatever the client's tax firm uses for workpapers. Every license is paid by the client. If a company runs something heavier such as NetSuite or Sage Intacct, that is stated up front so you can judge whether it matches your experience.

How Is This Different From a Bookkeeping Job?

The bookkeeper records what happened; you decide whether it was recorded correctly and what it means. Your output is the adjusting entries, the statements, the tax package, and the conversation where an owner asks whether they can afford another hire. It pays more because a wrong call at this level is expensive and slow to unwind.

Is This a Long-Term Placement?

Yes, and more so than most. Knowledge compounds fast in accounting: by your third close you know the entities, the seasonality, and every corner where a client's records go soft. Owners hold on to that. Senior accounting placements are ongoing work from home positions measured in years rather than projects with an end date.