System Six Hiring for Part Time Senior Bookkeeper Job at Seattle, WA Full Time

System Six, a unique, fast growing cloud accounting and finance firm is actively seeking our next Senior Bookkeeper. We’re looking for someone with excellent communication skills and strong bookkeeping experience. Moreover, we’re seeking someone who is an energetic, gritty team player that exhibits integrity, humility, and a true desire to grow with System Six.

At System Six, most of our team chooses to work 25-35 hours/week so they can balance a joyful work career with other important parts of their lives! All staff who work at least 20 hours/week are offered competitive benefits, and regardless of how many hours you choose to work, you are always treated as a critical part of the System Six team.

What’s in it for you?

• The chance to build the remote cloud accounting career YOU want

• System Six fundamentally believes in providing its team members with the career opportunities, flexibility, and work-life balance they desire
• We don’t burn our staff out – we won’t ask you to work more hours than you want, and we’re always willing to “fire” clients who don’t treat our team in appropriate manners
• We are a fast growing business so we are thrilled to have promotion and career growth opportunities for high-performing team members

• The opportunity to join a fantastic organization

• We prioritize our employees and our culture as much as we do our clients
• We are tech-first – we have been a remote organization for 10+ years, so we will equip you with the right tools and training to thrive in the remote environment
• We are continuously building and improving System Six, and are doing so with a focus on sustainable growth and long-term success

• Fantastic pay and benefits

• We strive to pay at the top of our industry
• Strong hourly base rate starting between $25-$30/hour plus quarterly profit share
• Additional benefits include health and dental insurance, retirement matching, PTO, maternity/paternity leave, bereavement and jury duty leave, annual wellness benefit, and an annual in-person gathering

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Excellent communication skills with both clients and team members across multiple communication channels (email, MS Teams, Zoom, etc.)
• Accounting and bookkeeping experience – we will provide training, but basic accounting and bookkeeping knowledge required with experience of managing a set of books from end to end
• Strong, current proficiency in cloud-accounting specific technologies (QBO, Office 365, Bill.com, Gusto, Google Drive, etc.)
• Ability to complete and manage, on time, accounting and bookkeeping work across multiple clients
• Resourceful problem solver who knows how to ask for help when needed
• Humility and openness to coaching, critique, and constant improvement
• Integrity, accuracy, dependability, and a keen attention to detail
• Joy, persistence, and timely follow-through

What does the day-to-day work look like?

• Working under a Team Lead, you’ll be responsible for much of the day-to-day operations in client books (transaction entry, invoicing, bill payments, payroll processing, journal entries).
• Work with your Team Lead to create solutions for clients on best practices for payroll, payroll taxes, bill pay procedures, daily accounting operations, and implementation and upkeep of software such as Bill.com, Expensify, Gusto, etc.
• Ask questions clearly and concisely and are able and excited to receive coaching and training when you might not fully understand yet what needs to occur in a set of books.

About System Six:

System Six was founded in 2008 with two equal missions:

Thirteen years later, we are extremely proud of the nationwide team we’ve become and the business we are continuing to build.

Today, as we have grown to nearly 30 person organization, we remain critically focused on our team and culture. We want each and every team member to experience System Six as a joyful, caring, high-paying career with ample opportunities to grow, and we work feverishly to ensure this experience.

This drive has enabled us to now serve hundreds of customers, ranging from small businesses to nonprofits to eight figure investor-owned businesses to wealthy families and more. And we’re focused on scaling our services and systems further so that we can help hundreds more clients in years to come.

We hope we’ve done a few things right, but we also fundamentally believe there is always better. So we are constantly pursuing new technologies, growing personally and professionally, and love that every day presents a great opportunity for each of us to be more. If this sounds exciting to you, please, join us!

How to Apply:

We do our best to make sure that every new team member is a great fit in both proficiency and culture. Our hiring process from beginning to end is undoubtedly more thorough than most. But if you’ve made it this far, hang in there and pay attention to these final steps!

Important – don’t miss the two small tests hidden below to confirm you have a strong attention to detail. If either of these tests are missed, we will unfortunately reject your application.

When you apply, you need to know that our favorite color is orange. Then, after you apply, email [email protected] to let us know that our favorite color is orange and include a short paragraph as to why you would be an excellent SSB team member.

If your initial application aligns with our mission, vision, and values, and you pass the two tests hidden here, we will ask you to complete a few assessments and record a few videos of yourself answering additional questions.

We usually receive hundreds of applications. We hope you are among the final one or two candidates that will receive an offer for employment. Thank you for investing the time to apply!