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Month-end close, management reports and cash flow.

Also called: Staff Accountant, Accounting Assistant, Accounting Specialist

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • Accounting firms
  • Construction
  • Xero
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Accountant gets doneSample day
  • Runs the close calendar and checklist to an agreed business-day deadlineMonth-end close
  • Produces monthly management accountsManagement reporting
  • Builds and maintains budgets, rolling forecastsPlanning and cash
  • Reconciles and eliminates intercompany balancesMulti-entity and consolidationDoing
In your tools
  • Xero
  • QuickBooks Online
  • MYOB
  • Sage Intacct
  • Fathom
  • Power BI

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Accountant£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns the close for a single entity and prepares management accounts with commentary.

  • Monthly management accounts pack
  • Variance commentary
  • Year-end and audit PBC files

2-5 years; part-qualified or newly qualified CPA/CA/ACCA.

How the Intermediate level works

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

What you hand to your Accountant

Tasks

  • Month-end close

    • Runs the close calendar and checklist to an agreed business-day deadline
    • Prepares and posts adjusting journals
    • Reconciles every balance sheet account with support
    • Applies revenue recognition and lease accounting where relevant

  • Management reporting

    • Produces monthly management accounts
    • Writes variance commentary and KPI reporting
    • Prepares finance inputs for board and investor packs

  • Planning and cash

    • Builds and maintains budgets, rolling forecasts
    • Analyses job, project, product or customer profitability

  • Multi-entity and consolidation

    • Reconciles and eliminates intercompany balances
    • Prepares group consolidations in NetSuite OneWorld, Sage Intacct

  • Compliance, audit and controls

    • Prepares year-end files and auditor PBC lists
    • Supports tax compliance with income tax workpapers, R&D claims
    • Designs and monitors internal controls, segregation of duties

  • Systems and review

    • Maintains the chart of accounts and reporting dimensions
    • Reviews bookkeeper, AP, AR and payroll work

Tested before you meet them

  1. Management commentary writing testAll levels30 min
  2. Technical accounting testAll levels45 min
  3. Excel cash-flow model testAll levels60 min
  4. Month-end close work sampleIntermediate and up2.5 hrs
  5. Specialist case: consolidation, WIP or SaaS revenueExpert and Specialist2 hrs
  6. CEO and auditor role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

92%

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 Accountant is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Month-end close, management reporting, planning and cash and multi-entity and consolidation, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including management commentary writing test, technical accounting test and excel cash-flow model test. 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 Accountant works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Accountant 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 Accountant owns the close for a single entity and prepares management accounts with commentary. An Expert Accountant closes multiple entities by business day 5, prepares consolidations and applies complex standards. 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 Accountant is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Xero and QuickBooks Online, before you meet them.

In week one: gets adviser or accountant-level access to the ledger or ERP; gets access to reporting tools, the close tool and the shared finance drive; and receives the last three months' close files, the chart of accounts, the budget. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Staff Accountant, Accounting Assistant and Accounting Specialist. 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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