Hire a Bookkeeper. They start tomorrow.
Pre-vetted Filipino bookkeepers and accountants with 2 to 5 years working directly in Xero, MYOB, BAS preparation and Australian payroll. Book before 11am AEST. They're at their desk by 9am tomorrow.
May 2026
Six Xero and MYOB bookkeepers ready tomorrow
Real, pre-vetted Filipino bookkeepers and accountants. Pick a profile, book a trial, they start in the morning.
- 5+ yrs AU experience
- MYOB & Xero certified
- Astute Payroll, STP
- Available tomorrow
- 7+ yrs AU experience
- BAS & payroll tax expert
- Astute Payroll, KeyPay
- Available tomorrow
- 10+ yrs AU experience
- Xero Certified & BAS Registered
- QBO, MYOB & WorkflowMax
- Available tomorrow
- 5+ yrs AU experience
- MYOB AccountRight
- BAS & reconciliations
- Available tomorrow
- 6+ yrs AU experience
- Xero certified
- AP, AR & full payroll
- Available tomorrow
- 3+ yrs AU experience
- Xero Adviser & Payroll
- BAS, IAS, GST
- Available tomorrow
Tools your bookkeeper already works in
Filter by software when you browse. We only show talent with verified hands-on hours.
Your bookkeeper handles all of this
Four buckets, one person. Most clients give them everything below.
Day-to-day bookkeeping
- Bank reconciliations
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Data entry & journals
- Receipt management (Hubdoc, Dext)
- Credit card reconciliations
- Petty cash handling
- Invoice creation & chasing
Payroll & STP
- Weekly, fortnightly, monthly pay runs
- Single Touch Payroll (STP)
- Superannuation processing
- Payroll tax calculation
- PAYG withholding
- Employee leave & entitlements
- EOFY payroll reconciliation
- Payment summaries
BAS, GST & compliance prep
- BAS preparation to lodgement standard
- GST reconciliation
- PAYG instalments
- End of financial year prep
- Workpapers for your tax agent
- Audit prep workpapers
- Fixed asset register
- FBT data preparation
Reporting & insights
- Monthly P&L and balance sheet
- Cash flow forecasting
- Aged debtor & creditor reports
- Budget vs actual variance
- Spotlight or Fathom dashboards
- KPI tracking
- Job costing reports
- Custom reports for your accountant
What they don't do
Better you know upfront. Our bookkeepers are not a replacement for your tax agent or CPA.
Where the line is
Our bookkeepers prepare everything your registered tax or BAS agent needs. The actual lodgement, sign-off and tax advice stay with your existing agent. Most clients keep their tax agent and use us for the day-to-day prep that eats the agent's time.
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Lodge tax returns or BAS as a registered agent They prepare to lodgement standard. Your tax agent (or ours, if you don't have one) does the lodgement.
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Provide tax advice Tax planning, structuring, and advice stay with your accountant. We handle the books, not the strategy.
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Audit or sign off statutory accounts Audit work is a separate engagement with a registered auditor.
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Replace your CPA or chartered accountant They support your CPA by handling the bookkeeping volume so the CPA stays on advisory and compliance work.
We reject 92% of applicants before you see them
Bookkeepers are tested in a live Xero file. No exceptions.
AU experience filter
Only applicants with 2 to 5 years working directly with Australian businesses. Generalist resumes and offshore-only experience don't progress.
60% rejected hereLive Xero or MYOB test
Real test file. Reconcile, journal, BAS-prep tasks. Time-boxed. Pass or no progression. Same for MYOB candidates.
22% rejected hereLive interview
Interviewed by our Australian team. Communication, judgement, AU business etiquette, attention to detail.
8% rejected hereBackground & references
Police check, two verified Australian employer references, ID verification, NDA signed before they ever touch your file.
2% rejected here$11.25 an hour. Pick the days.
Same daily rate across every schedule. You only ever change the days, not the price.
- Solo accountants needing BAS season help
- Small businesses with weekly reconciliations
- SMEs with one consistent bookkeeping load
- EOFY overflow without a full hire
- Growing accounting practices
- Multi-client bookkeeping workloads
- Businesses with payroll plus reconciliations
- Practices replacing a casual local hire
- Dedicated bookkeeper across multiple files
- Practices replacing a $70K+ local salary
- Construction, trades, multi-entity SMEs
- Complete day-to-day finance ownership
Standard bookkeepers $90/day. Senior bookkeepers (7+ yrs AU) $95/day. CPAs and senior accountants from $120/day. All tiers, same person every week. Pay weekly, no minimum, cancel anytime.
Why Australian businesses are hiring Filipino bookkeepers
Four reasons people stop hunting locally and start booking with us.
They're not learning Xero from scratch
Every bookkeeper on SkillCloud has 2 to 5 years working directly inside Xero, MYOB and Australian payroll. We test every applicant in a live Xero file before they're listed. They know GST coding, payroll tax thresholds, Single Touch Payroll, super stream, and the difference between a BAS and an IAS. You're not paying them to learn the basics on your dime.
The vetting filters out anyone who has only worked offshore. The 8% who pass have done the work for Australian businesses already.
BAS season doesn't break your team
April, July and October hit the same way every year. Reconciliations pile up. Partners stop billing. Payroll runs late. A SkillCloud bookkeeper picks up the overflow without a six-week recruitment process. Book the day after a meeting. Get the prep done. Drop the schedule back when the season ends.
This is the most common entry point for accounting firms hiring with us. Light tier (two days a week) for BAS season. Then most firms scale up.
Same person, every week, every month
The reason offshore bookkeeping has a bad reputation is the freelance model. A new person every fortnight. Constant retraining. Your chart of accounts re-explained twice a month. SkillCloud is not a freelance marketplace. The bookkeeper you book on day one is the bookkeeper still working with you in month twelve.
They learn your file once. They learn your client conventions once. After that they just get on with it.
60% of the cost, 100% of the work
A senior bookkeeper in Sydney runs $70,000 to $90,000 a year all-in once you factor super, leave, payroll tax and recruitment. A SkillCloud bookkeeper at standard tier (three days a week) is $4,320 a month. A full-week dedicated bookkeeper is $7,200 a month. Same scope of work. Different payroll line.
The maths is straightforward. We're not the cheapest option in the offshore market. We're the most predictable one for Australian businesses.
Bookkeeper hiring options compared
SkillCloud against the three other ways to fill a bookkeeping seat.
Three kinds of businesses hiring bookkeepers with us
Different stages, different reasons, same playbook.
Public practice scaling
"Can't find decent bookkeepers under $70K. BAS season is hitting and we're already behind on reconciliations."
Practices use SkillCloud for the BAS prep, payroll runs and reconciliations that pull partners off advisory work. Most start at Standard (3 days) and add a Full Week bookkeeper before EOFY.
SME owner doing the books themselves
"It's 11pm on a Sunday and I'm reconciling Xero. Again. I should be quoting a job."
Owner-operators hand off bank recs, AP, AR and payroll. Light tier (2 days) covers most. The owner stops reconciling at 11pm. The books stay current. The tax agent gets clean files.
Trades & service businesses
"ServiceM8 is talking to Xero, sort of. Receipts are everywhere. Payroll for the lads is late again."
A bookkeeper who knows ServiceM8, AroFlo and Tradify sync to Xero. Cleans up the integration mess, runs weekly payroll, chases overdue invoices. Two days a week is usually enough.
Real bookkeepers, real Australian businesses
"Booked Gliezel for two days a week during BAS season. She caught a payroll tax error our previous bookkeeper missed for 18 months. Paid for herself before her first BAS."
"Four-partner firm. We pulled in three SkillCloud bookkeepers during EOFY and got our partners off compliance work for the first time in five years. Standard tier each, scaled up to full-week in July."
"Quoted $1,800 a week by a bookkeeping agency. Same hours on SkillCloud was $1,080. Same Xero certifications. Better communication."
"She knows ServiceM8 sync to Xero better than I do. Three months in, payroll is on time, debtors are down 40%, and I haven't reconciled a bank account since March."
Is a SkillCloud bookkeeper right for you?
Quick read. Honest read.
✓ Best fit if you...
Sound like any of these.
- ✓ Run a practice and need bookkeeping done so partners stay on advisory.
- ✓ Use Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks daily.
- ✓ Need someone who already knows BAS, GST, payroll tax and STP.
- ✓ Want the same person every week, not a freelancer rotation.
- ✓ Are tired of training a new bookkeeper every six months.
/ Probably not for you if...
Better to know now than after onboarding.
- × You need a registered tax agent. We don't lodge tax returns.
- × You need tax planning or structuring advice. That's your CPA.
- × You want a one-off cleanup with no ongoing relationship.
- × You need someone working US or UK time zones.
- × You're chasing the cheapest possible offshore rate, no questions asked.
Bookkeeper questions, answered.
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