Senior Bookkeeper

**Remote | Long-Term**

About Harker Advisory

Harker Advisory is a growing accounting, advisory, and business consulting firm that helps business owners create financial clarity, improve operations, and build stronger businesses long-term.

We work with entrepreneurs and professionals who value:

* clarity
* communication
* proactive support
* organization
* long-term relationships
* operational excellence

We are building a team that operates with professionalism, ownership, humility, accuracy, and follow-through.

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced **Senior Bookkeeper** to support our Tax & Accounting Production team.

This role is focused on making sure client books are **accurate, clean, reconciled, and ready for review**.

You will work primarily across:

Phase 2 — Cleanup and Catch-Up
Helping bring historical bookkeeping up to date, resolving accounting issues, completing reconciliations, and preparing clean starting balances.

Phase 3 — Ongoing Monthly Bookkeeping and Quality Control
Reviewing recurring monthly bookkeeping, checking reconciliations and financial reports, identifying errors or unusual items, and helping ensure client books remain accurate and tax-ready.

This is not a basic data-entry bookkeeping role.

We are looking for someone who can **review the work, spot problems, ask the right questions, and help improve bookkeeping quality before it reaches CPA or client review.**

What the Role Looks Like

You will work closely with our Production leadership, bookkeepers, and CPA/tax team.

Your work may include:

* reviewing QuickBooks Online files
* completing bookkeeping cleanup and catch-up work
* reviewing bank and credit card reconciliations
* identifying uncategorized or incorrectly categorized transactions
* reviewing balance sheet and profit & loss accounts
* investigating unusual balances or inconsistencies
* checking supporting documents when needed
* reviewing work completed by other bookkeepers
* preparing books for CPA, tax, or financial review
* documenting bookkeeping notes, open questions, and follow-up items
* helping identify recurring bookkeeping issues before they become larger problems

You should be comfortable working independently while knowing when something needs to be escalated to Production leadership or the CPA/tax team.

Core Responsibilities

Phase 2 — Cleanup

* Review and clean up historical bookkeeping
* Complete or correct account reconciliations
* Resolve uncategorized, duplicated, or incorrectly recorded transactions
* Review opening balances and prior-period issues
* Identify missing statements, documents, or client information
* Prepare clean and supportable books before the client moves into ongoing service
* Clearly document unresolved accounting or tax-related questions for the appropriate reviewer

Phase 3 — Monthly Bookkeeping & QC

* Review recurring monthly bookkeeping for accuracy and completeness
* Perform second-level quality control before reports move forward
* Confirm bank and credit card accounts are properly reconciled
* Review Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet accounts for unusual activity
* Identify errors, inconsistencies, and missing information
* Review bookkeeping notes and outstanding client follow-ups
* Help ensure books stay current, organized, and tax-ready
* Support the bookkeeping team with technical questions and quality improvement

Required Skills & Experience

* Strong bookkeeping experience
* Strong working knowledge of **QuickBooks Online**
* Experience with bank and credit card reconciliations
* Strong understanding of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet accounts
* Experience reviewing and correcting bookkeeping work
* Ability to identify unusual transactions, errors, and inconsistencies
* High attention to detail
* Strong written English communication
* Organized with dependable follow-through
* Comfortable managing multiple client files and priorities
* Able to work independently and ask questions when needed
* Reliable internet connection and professional remote work setup

Strong Plus

* Experience supporting **U.S.-based accounting or bookkeeping clients**
* Experience with bookkeeping cleanup or catch-up projects
* Experience performing month-end review or quality control
* Experience reviewing another bookkeeper's work
* Familiarity with accrual and cash-basis accounting
* Experience preparing books for CPA or tax review
* Experience working inside an accounting firm or outsourced bookkeeping company

Ideal Candidate

This role is best suited for someone who is:

* accurate and detail-oriented
* calm when working through messy books
* comfortable investigating discrepancies
* proactive without making assumptions
* organized and consistent
* dependable with deadlines and follow-through
* willing to ask questions rather than guess
* able to explain bookkeeping issues clearly and simply
* comfortable receiving feedback and improving their work
* committed to producing clean, reliable financial information

You should take pride in catching problems before they reach the client or CPA.

We value someone who does not simply ask:

**“Is the bookkeeping done?”**

but also asks:

**“Is it accurate, complete, reconciled, and ready for the next person?”**

## Hiring Process

We care heavily about bookkeeping quality, communication, and long-term fit.

Please include:

**1. Your resume**

**2. A short video introduction, 2–3 minutes, answering:**

* Tell us about your bookkeeping experience.
* What experience do you have with QuickBooks Online?
* Tell us about a bookkeeping cleanup or reconciliation issue you have handled.
* How do you review another bookkeeper's work for accuracy?
* What would you do if you found a transaction or accounting issue you were unsure how to handle?
* Why do you believe you would be a strong fit for this Senior Bookkeeper role?

Please include the word **“Accuracy”** somewhere in your application so we know you read the full posting.

Applications without the easter egg will not be considered.

## Final Note

We are looking for someone who genuinely cares about **accuracy, organization, quality, and follow-through**.

This is a long-term opportunity for the right person to become an important part of our Tax & Accounting Production team.

If you take pride in cleaning up difficult books, catching errors before they become larger problems, and helping maintain high-quality financial records, we would love to hear from you.