In-House Full-Time Bookkeeper

Location

San Diego, CA

Type

Full-time

Department

Operations

Compensation

USD 57,000 - 70,000

Job Description

Responsibilities 

  • Maintain accurate, current books in Xero — AP/AR, bill pay, transaction categorization 
  • Manage and reconcile spend/card activity in Ramp, matching transactions to receipts with correct coding 
  • Perform General Ledger reconciliations across bank, credit card, and balance-sheet accounts; research and resolve discrepancies 
  • Post manual journal entries (accruals, prepaids, reclasses, adjustments) with supporting documentation 
  • Reconcile vendor statements against internal payment records; resolve unmatched and aged items 
  • Support month-end close and provide clean schedules to reviewers 

Qualifications

Skill Requirements

  • 2+ years of bookkeeping or transactional accounting experience 
  • Proficiency in Xero and Autotask (day-to-day operation, not just exposure) 
  • Working knowledge of Ramp or comparable spend-management platforms 
  • Experience reconciling online payment processors (e.g., GoCardless, PayPal, Stripe,  Square) — including net-of-fee deposits, batched/settlement timing, and refunds and chargebacks 
  • GL reconciliation — able to find why an account is off and fix it 
  • Solid grasp of manual journal entries and double-entry accounting fundamentals 
  • Strong spreadsheet fluency 
  • Comfortable building and maintaining reconciliation workbooks across multiple tabs 
  • Proficient with core spreadsheet functions for matching and analysis — lookups (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP), pivot tables, filtering/sorting, and conditional logic 
  • Able to clean and structure messy data (text-to-columns, deduplication, handling inconsistent formatting) to make it reconcilable 
  • Attention to detail and the discipline to document work for review 

Additional Information

Additional requirements

  • Must successfully pass a cognitive assessment as part of the hiring process.
  • Must successfully complete a typing test to validate typing speed and accuracy.
  • Recommendations required

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Competitive executive compensation (base salary + commission):
  • Base Salary: $135,000 - $145,000 (Depending on expertise and domain expertise). 
  • Comprehensive benefits package (medical, retirement plan, PTO, professional development).
  • Mission-driven work that directly strengthens the national security supply chain.