Part-Time Bookkeeper / Accounting Assistant
EzDashcam – Tempe, AZ
Part-Time | In-Person | 10–15 Hours per Week
Pay: $24–$30 per hour, depending on experience
About EzDashcam
EzDashcam is a growing automotive electronics retailer and professional installation company based in Tempe, Arizona. We sell and install dash cams, accessories, and related automotive electronics through our local store, online sales channels, and mobile installation services.
We are looking for an experienced, organized, and dependable Part-Time Bookkeeper / Accounting Assistant to help organize our historical financial records and maintain accurate bookkeeping going forward.
This position is ideal for someone who enjoys cleaning up books, creating organized systems, reconciling accounts, and helping a small business maintain accurate financial records.
Responsibilities
- Review and help organize historical bookkeeping records
- Maintain accurate bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online
- Categorize and record business transactions
- Reconcile bank accounts and business credit cards
- Reconcile payment processors and online sales deposits
- Track merchant processing fees, refunds, chargebacks, and adjustments
- Maintain accurate records for product sales and installation/service revenue
- Assist with inventory and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) accounting
- Track vendor purchases, invoices, credits, and payments
- Maintain Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable records
- Organize receipts, invoices, statements, and supporting documentation
- Assist with payroll-related bookkeeping and reconciliation
- Maintain accurate sales-tax liability records
- Help prepare Arizona TPT/sales-tax information
- Review the Profit & Loss Statement and Balance Sheet for unusual or incorrect balances
- Prepare monthly financial reports
- Identify discrepancies and recommend corrections
- Maintain organized records for our CPA and tax preparer
- Communicate with management regarding missing documentation or questionable transactions
- Assist with other accounting and administrative tasks as needed
Historical Cleanup
A major initial responsibility of this position will be helping us organize and reconcile prior accounting records.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable reviewing:
- Prior bank and credit-card statements
- Existing QuickBooks records
- Online sales records
- Payment-processor reports
- Vendor invoices
- Inventory purchases
- Payroll records
- Prior tax-return information
- Receipts and business expenses
We are specifically looking for someone who understands how to properly reconcile and verify historical transactions, rather than simply categorizing transactions.
Qualifications
- Minimum 2–3 years of bookkeeping experience preferred
- Strong QuickBooks Online experience
- Strong understanding of bank and credit-card reconciliation
- Understanding of Profit & Loss Statements and Balance Sheets
- Experience with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
- Experience with inventory and Cost of Goods Sold preferred
- Experience with e-commerce, retail, or service businesses strongly preferred
- Experience reconciling payment processors and online sales platforms preferred
- Experience with sales-tax accounting preferred
- Arizona TPT experience is a plus
- Payroll bookkeeping experience preferred
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify accounting discrepancies instead of simply entering data
- Ability to work independently
- Reliable and professional communication
Preferred Qualifications
- QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certification
- 3–5+ years of bookkeeping experience
- Previous bookkeeping cleanup/catch-up experience
- Experience working with an e-commerce or automotive business
- Experience with Shopify, WooCommerce, PayPal, Stripe, Square, Amazon, eBay, or similar platforms
- Experience preparing books for review by a CPA
- Experience working with small businesses
Schedule
Approximately 10–15 hours per week to start.
Schedule can be somewhat flexible during normal weekday business hours.
Additional hours may initially be available while historical bookkeeping records are being organized and reconciled.
This is primarily an in-person position at our Tempe location.
Compensation
$24–$30 per hour, depending on bookkeeping experience and qualifications.
Candidates with significant QuickBooks cleanup, inventory, e-commerce, and reconciliation experience may qualify toward the higher end of the range.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who can do more than basic transaction entry.
A strong candidate should be able to look at a set of books, identify what does not make sense, investigate discrepancies, properly reconcile the accounts, and help establish systems that keep the books accurate going forward.
Accuracy, organization, reliability, and good judgment are extremely important for this position.
Application Questions
Please include answers to the following when applying:
- How many years of bookkeeping experience do you have?
- How many years have you used QuickBooks Online?
- Have you previously completed a bookkeeping cleanup or catch-up project? Please briefly describe the project.
- Do you have experience reconciling e-commerce sales or payment processors such as PayPal, Stripe, Square, Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, or eBay?
- Do you have experience with inventory and Cost of Goods Sold accounting?
- Do you have experience with Arizona TPT or sales-tax accounting?
- Are you comfortable working approximately 10–15 hours per week in person in Tempe, Arizona?
- What hourly pay rate are you seeking?
Job Type: Part-time
Expected Hours: 10–15 per week
Pay: $24.00–$30.00 per hour
Work Location: In person – Tempe, AZ
Pay: $24.00 - $30.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Paid sick time
Application Question(s):
- What hourly pay rate are you expecting for this position, and what experience, skills, or qualifications do you feel justify that rate?
- What days and times are you regularly available to work? Please provide your typical weekly availability. This position is in person at our location in Tempe.
- Have you previously handled bookkeeping or accounting for a retail, e-commerce, automotive, or other product-based business? If yes, please briefly describe the business, your responsibilities, the accounting software you used, and your experience with inventory/COGS, sales tax, payment processors, and bank/credit-card reconciliations.
- Have you ever taken over books that were behind, disorganized, incorrectly categorized, or not properly reconciled? If yes, briefly explain how you approached the cleanup, what you corrected, and how you verified that the final numbers were accurate.
Work Location: In person
