Hire an Offshore Staff Accountant for CPA Firms
A trained staff or senior accountant placed inside your firm in about 3 to 4 weeks, ramped on your ledger and workpaper standards, and proven on your own engagements before a single live client file.
Own the close without owning the recruiting. Keep partners in review and advisory. Don't trust us. Test us.
What an offshore staff accountant clears for your firm
The full-cycle close work that pulls seniors off review and partners off advisory, carried to a standard your reviewer will sign.
A staff accountant carries the mechanics of the close: journal entries, accruals and deferrals, bank and general-ledger reconciliations, workpaper prep, and AP and AR support, ending in financial statements that tie out and reconcile back to the trial balance. Bring in a senior accountant and the scope widens to multi-entity support, intercompany work, and controller-level oversight, so the file that reaches you needs a partner's judgment, not a partner's cleanup.
The people we place already work the way a US firm works before they see a live engagement. Accountably was founded by a Washington-licensed CPA with more than seven years inside US firms, from PwC to a real-estate tax practice to a full-service firm, rising from reviewer to manager. So the person building your offshore seat has closed the books, sat the review cycle, and knows the difference between a workpaper that is done and one that is defensible. Just need the work done? See our accounting services.
Four sets of eyes before it reaches yours
A resume tells you what someone did once. A review layer tells you what they deliver every close. Every file we touch clears four internal stages before your reviewer opens it.
Preparer
Books the entries, reconciliations, and workpapers to your SOPs and templates.
Senior
A senior accountant reviews the close, tests the accruals, and catches the judgment calls a staff level would pass over.
Quality
An independent check on tie-outs, completeness, and whether every balance traces to support.
Final
Signed off internally, so what lands with your firm is review-ready, not a first draft.
See it before you commit a client file
Trust in a close is earned on real numbers, not a reference check. So we earn it on your own engagements first.
Before any live engagement, we run a Free 40-Hour Proof Pilot. The accountant works a fixed 40-hour block of your own files under our full four-stage review, and your reviewer grades the workpapers exactly the way they would grade a promising new hire. If the close does not reconcile to your standard, you have learned where we stand with none of your clients exposed. If it does, you have already watched the work hold before you scale a seat onto it.
This is not a demo dressed up as a trial. It is a structured pilot on your own numbers, the only test that tells a partner whether an offshore accountant can be relied on when the name on the return is theirs. The Proof Pilot earns the first file. The 30-day fit guarantee carries the risk after that.
What stays with you. What we carry
You keep
- The client relationship and every advisory conversation
- Final review and sign-off on the financial statements
- Judgment on estimates, elections, and treatment that needs a partner
- Your name on the engagement and the responsibility that comes with it
We carry
- Entries, accruals, reconciliations, and the full-cycle close
- Structured workpapers, tie-outs, and support that traces back
- AP and AR support and multi-entity consolidation prep
- Continuity and shadowing so a rolloff never touches your month-end
Placed in ~3 to 4 weeks, earned seat by seat
Most firms open with one to three trained accountants and add seats as the work proves itself. We learn or build your close SOPs and workpaper templates, run mock closes through a 3 to 4 week ramp, and keep senior reviewers over the file so the standard holds from the first live month-end. You start narrow, watch a close land clean, and widen the seat from there. When someone rolls off, a trained replacement has already shadowed the process, so the close never slips a cycle.
Explore related seats on the hire hub, or compare roles: an offshore bookkeeper handles the day-to-day books, while an offshore tax preparer carries return prep through review. A staff or senior accountant sits between them, owning the close and the statements the other two feed into.
Questions firms ask before hiring a staff accountant
The full-cycle work behind a close: journal entries, accruals and deferrals, bank and general-ledger reconciliations, workpaper prep, AP and AR support, and financial statement prep that ties out. At the senior level they also handle multi-entity support and controller-level review, so your team stays on advisory and sign-off.
A staff accountant runs the recurring close work: entries, reconciliations, and workpapers to your standard. A senior accountant owns the whole close for an entity, reviews the staff work, handles multi-entity and controller support, and hands you financials that need judgment, not correction. We place at either level based on the seat you are filling.
Through a Free 40-Hour Proof Pilot. The accountant works a fixed 40-hour block of your own engagements under our four-stage review, and your reviewer grades the workpapers before any live client file is assigned.
QuickBooks, Xero, and the mid-market ledgers and close tools firms run alongside them, plus workflow platforms such as Karbon, TaxDome, and Suralink. We ramp the accountant on your stack and your workpaper templates during the ramp, before live work.
Typically placed and ramped on your software and SOPs in about 3 to 4 weeks. Mock closes run during the ramp, so the first live month-end is not the first time the accountant sees your process.
If a placement is not the right fit in the first 30 days, we replace them free. When someone rolls off, a trained replacement shadows the close and hands over during the notice period, so your month-end never slips.
Don't trust us. Test us.
If your firm is heading into another close short a seat, start with a Free 40-Hour Proof Pilot on your own engagements. Trained offshore staff and senior accountants, placed in ~3 to 4 weeks. Not a fit in 30 days? Replaced free.
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