Full Charge Bookkeeper/Staff Accountant
Company: Holmes & associates
Location: Long Beach, CA 90802
Salary: $60,000 - $80,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-27
About this role
HOLMES & ASSOCIATES, CPAs Now Hiring
Lead Bookkeeper / Senior Bookkeeper
AI-Assisted Client Accounting Services
Location Long Beach, CA — on-site, firm office
Employment Type Full-time, exempt or non-exempt DOE
Compensation $60,000 – $80,000 annually, DOE (see note below)
Reports To CPA\Manager
Team First hire in a planned 3-person bookkeeping team (this role + one additional
bookkeeper), covering 50+ client QuickBooks Online files
About the Role
Holmes & Associates, CPAs is building out a dedicated bookkeeping team to sit between our client-file intake process and CPA-level tax and financial statement review. This is a newly created, high-visibility role for the right person: you will be the first hire on this team, with the expectation — assuming strong performance —that you will help train and eventually lead a second bookkeeper as the team grows to three.
You will take over client QuickBooks Online files after bank feeds are downloaded and initial reconciliation is complete, and be responsible for turning each file into a clean, fully documented, CPA-ready file — using Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant) as a core part of your daily workflow to identify issues, draft client communications, and produce review-ready documentation. Precision matters: our standard is zero errors reaching CPA review.
What You'll Do
- Own the day-to-day bookkeeping cleanup for an assigned group of client QuickBooks Online files
(approximately 25 clients initially)
- Run our standardized Claude-based comparative review prompts against each file to identify miscoded transactions, unresolved reconciling items, missing documentation, and open questions
- Resolve everything the review process flags — correct coding, book adjusting entries, and reconcile all bank, credit card, and loan accounts to source
- Communicate directly and professionally with clients to gather missing documentation and resolve open questions, in plain, clear language
- Assemble a complete, well-document...