Affordable Bookkeeper
Hiring a remote bookkeeper, cost, efficiency, and result-wise is the most economical option than hiring a bookkeeper or a bookkeeping services firm.
If you are a new business, don't even consider employing an in-house bookkeeper. It is costly. The expenses like salary, benefits, contributions, infrastructure, and training can eat your profit.
The process for appointing a remote bookkeeping services provider is not complex. It simplifies your research for locating the right provider. You should know beforehand your accounting needs, the quality of the services you need, and how much you can afford to pay for them.
Know Your Bookkeeper
1.Accounting Needs
Preparing a list of your accounting needs helps. Typically, bookkeeping services provide:
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Accounting charts of accounts
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Ledgers
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Account reconciliation, including bank
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Cash flow
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Financial analysis
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Management reporting
In the job description, mention schedule, duration and the customised bookkeeping services specific to the niche or business.
2.Qualified Bookkeeper
Bookkeeping is the most basic accounting task, and finding a qualified bookkeeper is not a significant problem. Verify that the candidate has graduated in commerce with enough experience.
3.Bookkeeping Experience
Companies like to employ bookkeepers with experience. It ensures they know how to take care of or respond to situations. However, you try to find someone who has worked for companies in your industry or niche. Such a bookkeeper will be of actual use to you.
4.Technical Skills
Nowadays, almost all companies use computers and bookkeeping and accounting software to do their books. It is why your bookkeeper needs to be computer literate with an ability to learn new software tools. In addition, look for someone already familiar with the bookkeeping software you subscribe to. It will keep the training time to a minimum.
5.Communication
If you hire a remote bookkeeping services firm, you will need to take a hard call on how they communicate. It is not about the language skill; rather, it is more to do with the ability to:
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Coordinate and work with your in-house team
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Strike a fluid professional relationship with you
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Need almost no support from you, leading to less work for you
6.Motivations
Understanding someone's motivation and attitude helps you judge their involvement and dependability. It is what you should do while interviewing a bookkeeping services provider. Get them talking about their life goals, background, ambitions, and passions.
7.Smart Worker
You need a bookkeeper who has excellent organisational skills. It is an analytical work involving principles and concepts. You need someone who can bring smartness to procedural work and achieve weekly, monthly, and yearly targets.
8.Upscale or Downscale Services
The purpose of hiring a remote bookkeeper is to reduce your workload. It means the bookkeeping services provider needs to be flexible to upscale or downscale their services as per your needs. They should be able to manage their schedules, work, and human resources to accommodate your accounting needs.
9.Reliability
Many business owners, at first, hesitate to outsource their accounting work to a third-party firm. They fear for the financial data that drives their business. So, before hiring a remote bookkeeping services firm, you need to find how trustworthy or reliable they are.
10.Budget
You, like everyone else, are bound by the budget constraint. It may make you choose a lesser provider. However, you need to focus more on getting the job done on the first go. Remember that a business's accounting and auditing outcome depends on the accuracy of bookkeeping data. Saving a few bucks and then getting stuck due to substandard work is something you need to avoid.
Hiring a remote bookkeeping services firm makes more sense that employing a remote bookkeeper. The team's headcount matters. A team redistributes the work. It has a better chance of delivering your output as per schedule.
Contact us at contact@grogroup.co.in to hire a remote bookkeeper for the first time or to replace your existing one.
