Bookkeeper / Accountant

Apply 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. This allows each individual the flexibility to do work they enjoy in the structure they prefer. Regardless of your employee classification, we offer benefits that align to our values, including: Individual growth plans that help you achieve your ideal career path Incredible company culture. We are passionate about the impact we make every day, we balance freedom with responsibility, and we aim for a consultative, transparent, and communicative approach in both our internal and client relationships. Great career growth opportunity. You’ll have direct access to agency leadership and graduate level university training.