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Own the entire accounting function for a US residential construction
company. Fully remote from the Philippines, permanent night shift,
$9.00 to $12.00 per hour paid in US dollars - roughly PHP 95,700 to
PHP 127,500 per month at today's exchange rate.
This is not a data-entry job. Read the engagement terms below before
you apply; we would rather you rule yourself out now than at offer
stage.
THE ENGAGEMENT - PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING
- This is a direct engagement with a United States company. You would
work as an independent contractor, not as an employee under
Philippine labor law, and you are responsible for your own taxes
and government contributions.
- We do NOT provide SSS, PhilHealth, or Pag-IBIG contributions, and
we do NOT provide HMO or medical coverage. Our pay is set above the
local market rate for an Accounting Manager specifically because of
this. Please factor it into your decision.
- We DO pay a year-end bonus equal to one month's pay, prorated by
month of hire.
- This is a permanent night shift. Monday to Friday, 9:30 PM to 6:30
AM Philippine time (8:30 AM to 5:30 PM US Central), one hour unpaid
lunch, 40 hours per week.
- This is exclusive and full time. You may not hold another job or
client engagement while working with us. You will be asked to list
every current engagement in your application.
- We use screenshot monitoring software on work computers.
- Because pay is in US dollars, the peso value moves with the
exchange rate.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
You will own the accounting function.
We have separate staff who enter bills, send invoices, chase
documents, and track purchase orders. Your job is to own the close,
own the reconciliations, own the job cost data, and review their work
- not to do it yourself.
We are also going to be straightforward with you about something most
job posts leave out: our historical books need cleanup work. Costs
have not been consistently coded to the right jobs, and some accounts
need to be reorganized. Your first ninety days include a defined
cleanup project alongside normal monthly work. You will not be
inheriting a perfectly clean system, and we are not pretending
otherwise.
If that sounds like the kind of problem you enjoy solving, we want to
hear from you. If it sounds like a headache, this is not the right
role for you, and that is fine.
ABOUT REPUBLIC HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Republic Homebuilding & Renovations is a design-build residential
construction and remodeling firm based in Webster, Texas, USA,
serving homeowners throughout the Greater Houston area. We specialize
in high-quality renovations, additions, and custom residential
projects.
We run about ten active jobs at a time, ranging from $20,000 to
$300,000. We use QuickBooks Online for accounting and JobTread for
project management and job costing.
REQUIREMENTS - ALL FOUR ARE REQUIRED
- Bachelor's degree in Accountancy
- 3+ years of accounting experience, including at least one year
where you were personally responsible for closing the books every
month - not assisting someone else who closed them
- Experience assigning costs to specific projects or jobs, including
deciding which job a cost belongs to at the time you record it
- QuickBooks Online experience
STRONGLY PREFERRED
- Construction, remodeling, or contracting industry experience,
especially US residential
- Experience with a project management or job-costing system
alongside the accounting system (JobTread, Buildertrend, Procore,
CoConstruct, or similar)
- Experience producing a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) schedule
using percentage-of-completion
- Experience closing books for more than one related entity,
including intercompany transactions
- QuickBooks Online Advanced Certification / ProAdvisor
- CPA (PRC) licence
If you do not have every item on the preferred list, apply anyway.
The four requirements above are what matter.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
Monthly close
- Reconcile all bank, credit card, and loan accounts every month
- Produce the monthly financial package: profit and loss, balance
sheet, cash flow statement
- Produce a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) schedule
- Prepare monthly reporting packages required by outside parties
- Close on a published schedule, not 'when it gets done'
Job costing
- Ensure every cost is coded to the correct job and correct cost type
at the time it is recorded
- Maintain a clean separation between job costs and company overhead,
and apply it consistently
- Reconcile job cost data in QuickBooks against JobTread and resolve
the differences
- Produce per-job cost reporting the project team can actually rely
on
Bank feed and payables
- You are the only person who touches the bank feed. Bank feed items
must be matched to existing bills before they are categorized -
never entered as new expenses when a bill already exists
- Maintain accounts payable and review vendor bills entered by admin
staff
- Weekly review for duplicate or miscoded transactions
Other
- Run payroll and maintain payroll records
- Maintain the chart of accounts. You are the only person who may add
or change an account
- Review the work of the admin staff who enter bills and prepare
invoices
- Reconciliation work extends to two affiliated partnerships in
addition to the main company
YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS
We measure this role on deliverables, not on time served.
- Day 14: a written month-end close procedure, in your own words,
that someone else could follow
- Day 45: first complete set of reconciliations across all bank,
credit card, and loan accounts
- Day 75: first complete monthly financial package, delivered on
schedule
- Day 90: agreed cleanup milestones met, and job cost data usable for
estimating
WORK SETUP REQUIREMENTS
- Reliable high-speed internet AND a reliable backup internet
connection
- Backup power supply
- Reliable computer plus a backup device
- Willingness to use screenshot monitoring software on work computers
WHY YOU WILL LIKE WORKING HERE
- Real ownership. You are the accounting function, not a task-taker
- A defined problem with a defined finish line, and a company that
already knows what is broken
- Admin support, so you are not buried in data entry
- Direct access to the company President. No layers, and genuine US
construction accounting experience: job costing, WIP,
percentage-of-completion
OUR HIRING PROCESS
1. Application and screening question review
2. Short introductory video call
3. Paid two-hour work sample - a real reconciliation and job-costing
exercise. We pay you at the role's hourly rate for your time,
whether or not we make an offer. Finalists only
4. Reference check with a direct supervisor from a recent role
5. Offer
We do this because we would rather see how you work than hear about
it.
HOW TO APPLY
Apply at this link: https://forms.gle/7ykCgNsqnaTe6vTH7
The form asks four questions. Applications that do not answer all four will not be reviewed.
Short, specific answers are better than long general ones. We are
looking for what you actually did, not what you know about in
principle.
Job ID: 153573531