Ermias Lemma
Bookkeeper
4:23Finance & AccountingBookkeeping that closes
Bookkeeping that closes
on time, every time.
Bookkeepers, accounts payable and receivable clerks, and payroll specialists working inside your ledger. Reconciled daily, closed monthly, every entry carrying its support.
- We prepare and queue payments. Releasing them stays with you.
- Your ledger — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage or in-house. Nothing to migrate back.
- Preparer and approver are different people, under audited ISO 27001 controls.
DailyBank and card reconciliation
MonthlyClose pack handed over
YouApprove every payment release
ISO 27001Independently audited controls
Who signs what
The point of a finance seat is not to hand over control. It is to hand over the work that has to happen before anyone can exercise it.
Prepared by us
- Coded and reconciled
- Vendors chased
- Runs assembled
- Close pack built
Approved by you
- Releasing payment
- Signing filings
- Journals and write-offs
- Final sign-off
What you can staff
Six seats, one finance desk.
Take one clerk on one process, or the whole desk. Every line below is a seat you can staff on its own.
Bookkeeping & accounting
Daily reconciliation, coding, journals and accruals, and a month-end close pack you can hand straight to your accountant.
CoreAccounts payable
Invoices captured and coded, vendor queries handled, payment runs prepared and queued for your approval — never released without it.
CoreAccounts receivable
Invoices raised on schedule, ageing worked to your escalation rules, every chase logged against the account.
CorePayroll processing
Multi-state payroll runs, filings and employee records maintained, with the calendar owned rather than remembered.
CoreReporting & packs
The recurring management reports you currently build by hand, produced on a schedule with the workings shown.
Add-onControls & segregation
Preparer and approver kept separate, access scoped per client, and the audit trail held in your system rather than ours.
IncludedCadence
Month-end should be a review, not an excavation.
That only holds if the work happens on a rhythm rather than in a panic. This is the rhythm every finance seat runs to.
Daily
As transactions land
- Bank and card reconciliation matched the day it happens, so a mismatch surfaces immediately rather than three weeks later.
Weekly
Prepared and queued
- Payables run coded, queued and sitting in your approval list. Nothing leaves without you releasing it.
- Receivables ageing chased on your schedule and in your tone, with every contact logged against the account.
Monthly
Closed and handed over
- Journals and accruals posted with supporting documents attached to the entry, not filed elsewhere and cross-referenced.
- A close pack you can review and pass to your accountant, rather than a balance you have to take on trust.
Coverage drives the cost of a finance desk far more than seniority does. One clerk on a weekly cadence and a full desk closing monthly across several entities are very different numbers, and we quote the second one honestly.
Meet the bench
Hear who would keep your books.
Clips from our screening interviews — the same recordings that come with a shortlist, so you can judge the care and the questions before anyone is near your ledger.
Control
You keep the signature. We do the work behind it.
Prepared by us
- Transactions coded and reconciled
- Invoices captured, vendors chased
- Payment runs assembled and queued
- Journals drafted with support attached
- Payroll prepared, filings drafted
- Close pack built and delivered
Approved by you
- Releasing any payment
- Signing any filing
- Approving journals and write-offs
- Setting credit and escalation rules
- Final sign-off on the close
- Everything a bank would ask you to own
The rule we do not bend: preparer and approver are different people, and the approver is you. Access is scoped to what the seat actually needs, under independently audited ISO 27001 controls.
What a seat costs
Two tiers, same controls.
Published, hourly, per seat — the same two rates on every service line. Every seat operates under the same ISO 9001 quality and ISO 27001 security controls. What changes is the experience in the seat and how much direction it needs.
Best value
Pro
from$8/hrFully trained and fit for work from day one. Pro seats clear our core programme and pick up whatever software you run — CRM, helpdesk, ledger, billing, scheduling, or a tool you built in-house.
- Works on any stack
- Core programme certified before placement
- Best rate per seat
- Suited to repeatable, rules-based work
Most judgment
Expert
from$11/hrMore years on the job and a far more rigorous assessment path. Experts arrive already fluent in your kind of operation and need the least direction to get moving.
- Senior experience
- Rigorous assessment path
- Least supervision needed
- Suited to client-facing, high-stakes work
A pod can mix tiers — an Expert lead with Pro seats underneath is the most common shape we place, and the cheapest way to buy senior judgment. Coverage drives the monthly cost far more than seniority does: see the full pricing grid.
Before you ask
The questions worth asking before anyone near your ledger.
Will you have access to move our money?
No. We prepare and queue payment runs; releasing them stays with you. Preparer and approver are deliberately separate roles and access is scoped to what the seat needs, which is the same control a bank or an auditor would expect you to hold.
Do you replace our accountant?
No, and we will say so plainly. This is the bookkeeping and transaction work that has to be done before an accountant or controller can do theirs. The close pack is built to hand straight to them.
What if our books are behind?
A common starting point. We scope the catch-up separately from the ongoing cadence, so you can see what is cleanup and what is steady state rather than paying a blended rate for both.
How is financial data protected?
Under ISO 27001 information security controls, independently audited rather than self-declared, with least-privilege access scoped per client. ISO 9001 covers the quality side. Anything we build during onboarding stays with you if the engagement ends.
Which ledger do you work in?
Yours. QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Bill.com or an in-house system — the audit trail stays where your auditor expects to find it, and nothing has to be migrated back if we stop working together.
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