Bookkeeper / Accountant

Description: **ABOUT US:** Optidge is a home\-grown remote\-first digital marketing agency supporting small and medium businesses with SEO, paid media, and web development services. We’re a team of \~40 spread through the US and internationally, aligning to values of Mentorship, Stewardship, Excellence, and Communication. **THE ROLE:** The Bookkeeper will report into the Process Owner. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. We’ve scoped this role between 15\-20 hours per week, with an hourly rate starting at $28 per hour and scaling with experience. This role is perfect for a detail\-driven full\-charge bookkeeper who wants real ownership of a growing agency's finances, enjoys working independently in a remote team, and likes bringing order to AP/AR, month\-end close, and multi\-state compliance. **Day To Day and Year 1:** * Own AP and AR: reconcile open invoices against client billing and hourly rates, run weekly bill pay, and keep past\-due follow\-up moving * Run biweekly payroll reconciliation (Paylocity to QuickBooks) and monthly close, reconciling bank, card, and processor accounts and posting journal entries * Deliver monthly financials: P\&L, budget\-versus\-actual, cash\-flow forecasting, and software and vendor spend reporting * Own compliance: W\-9s and 1099s, CPA year\-end prep, multi\-state payroll registrations, and Texas franchise tax data Requirements: **Within 1 months you’ll…** * Have completed onboarding, understand our client operations, and begun work on your first project * Own our weekly AP/AR and bill\-pay cadence and the Paylocity\-to\-QuickBooks reconciliation, with the outgoing bookkeeper fully transitioned * Have cleaned up vendor records and W\-9s and started taking month\-end close off the DOO’s plate **By 3 months you’ll…** * Run month\-end close independently and deliver monthly P\&L and budget\-versus\-actual to leadership * Have AR aging trending down and a short\-term cash\-flow forecast running * Keep multi\-state payroll registrations and state compliance current **At 6\+ months you’ll…** * Be a trusted finance partner who flags margin and spend issues before we ask * Run 1099 season and the CPA year\-end package smoothly, with the founder no longer touching categorization * Have measurably reduced the DOO’s finance workload **Your Experience** To be successful in this role, you should have accomplished the below and be confident in owning each area on our team: * Full\-charge bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online, including AP/AR, categorization, and monthly close * Payroll reconciliation and multi\-state payroll tax and 1099 compliance (Paylocity or similar) * Bank, credit card, and payment\-processor reconciliation, plus journal entries and monthly financials * Budgeting, P\&L, and cash\-flow reporting, with the self\-direction to own finance independently in a remote team **WHY OPTIDGE?** Our team is a blend of full\-time employees and fractional contractors. Th