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Transactions, reconciliations and month-end, kept up to date.

Also called: Virtual Bookkeeper, Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant, Xero Bookkeeper

From AUD $6 an hourAUD $6-27.50/hr

  • Accounting firms
  • Construction
  • Xero
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Bookkeeper gets doneSample day
  • Codes and reconciles bank, credit card and payment-platform feedsTransaction processing
  • Runs the month-end checklistMonth-end close and reconciliations
  • Prepares BAS/IAS, GST returns, MTD VAT returns or state sales-tax reportsIndirect tax and compliance prep
  • Sets up job costing, record progress claims and retentionsSpecialist bookkeepingDoing
In your tools
  • Xero
  • QuickBooks Online
  • MYOB Business / AccountRight
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Shopify

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $10.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate BookkeeperAUD $10.50/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Runs a portfolio of 5-15 files through the full monthly cycle, with light review.

  • Monthly close pack with reconciled trial balance
  • Draft BAS/GST return with reconciliation to the ledger
  • Aged AR/AP review and bank-rule updates

2-4 years owning small-business files end to end; Xero Advisor or QuickBooks ProAdvisor certified.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Bookkeeper

Tasks

  • Transaction processing

    • Codes and reconciles bank, credit card and payment-platform feeds
    • Captures and posts supplier bills and receipts from Dext Prepare or Hubdoc
    • Raises customer invoices, applies receipts and credit notes
    • Builds and maintains bank rules, supplier defaults

  • Month-end close and reconciliations

    • Runs the month-end checklist
    • Posts recurring journals from schedules
    • Clears suspense and uncategorised accounts
    • Produces the monthly close pack

  • Indirect tax and compliance prep

    • Prepares BAS/IAS, GST returns, MTD VAT returns or state sales-tax reports
    • Prepares TPAR data for construction and courier clients
    • Assembles year-end workpapers

  • Specialist bookkeeping

    • Sets up job costing, record progress claims and retentions
    • Reconciles marketplace and storefront settlements
    • Rebuilds unreconciled periods from statements
    • Reconciles trust bank accounts to owner and tenant ledgers

  • Client communication

    • Keeps a live query log of unknown transactions and missing documents
    • Sends a short monthly summary covering work completed

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English and client query emailAll levels20 min
  2. Accounting fundamentals quizAll levels30 min
  3. Platform sandbox reconciliationAll levels60 min
  4. Month-end close and tax-return work sampleIntermediate and up1.5 hrs
  5. Specialist track caseExpert and Specialist2 hrs
  6. Stakeholder and control role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

93%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Bookkeeper is AUD $6 an hour, Intermediate AUD $10.50, Expert AUD $16.50 and Specialist AUD $27.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Transaction processing, month-end close and reconciliations, indirect tax and compliance prep and specialist bookkeeping, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and client query email, accounting fundamentals quiz and platform sandbox reconciliation. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Bookkeeper works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Bookkeeper works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Bookkeeper runs a portfolio of 5-15 files through the full monthly cycle, with light review. An Expert Bookkeeper takes on messy or specialist files and agrees opening positions with the accountant. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Bookkeeper is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Xero and QuickBooks Online, before you meet them.

In week one: gets invited-user access to the client's Xero/QBO/MYOB file; receives the chart of accounts; and hold a recorded 45-minute SOP handover covering coding conventions, approval rules. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Virtual Bookkeeper, Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant and Xero Bookkeeper. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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