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Offshore Accounting Services That Staff Your Firm, Not Replace It
Most offshore accounting services sell you a black box: work goes out, something comes back, and you never know who touched it. Ultimate Bookkeeper works the other way. We place dedicated, full-time offshore accounting professionals directly into your firm: bookkeepers, staff accountants, AP and AR specialists, and payroll specialists who work in your QuickBooks or Xero, on your time zone, under your management. Offshore economics, without giving up control of the work.
What offshore accounting services actually means
Two models are sold under this label. The first is BPO outsourcing: a vendor takes your clients' work into its own shop, does it with anonymous staff, and returns deliverables. You carry the quality risk, and your clients never know who is behind the curtain. The second is offshore staffing: a dedicated professional joins your team full-time, works your hours, and follows your processes, and simply happens to be located in the Philippines. Ultimate Bookkeeper is the second model. You interview every candidate, you approve every hire, and you manage the work. We handle sourcing, vetting, employment, payroll, and retention.
Roles we staff
Offshore bookkeepers with 5+ years of experience from $8.50 per hour, and senior bookkeepers with 10+ years from $10.75 per hour, covering transaction coding, reconciliations, and month-end close support. Accounts payable and accounts receivable specialists handle invoice processing, bill pay, and collections support. Payroll specialists run processing and compliance calendars in your payroll stack, and our QuickBooks and Xero specialists live inside your ledger, not a vendor portal. Every role is full-time: 40 hours a week, on your time zone. No shared pools, no ticket queues, no handoffs to whoever is free.
Dedicated, never pooled
One named professional works only for you, full-time, as a member of your team. No anonymous staff rotation.
Your time zone
40 hours a week aligned to your business hours, so collaboration happens live instead of overnight.
Your tools, your controls
Work happens inside your QuickBooks, Xero, and payroll stack under your access controls. Nothing leaves your systems.
Published flat pricing
$8.50 to $10.75 per hour by experience tier. No setup fees, no deposits, no recruitment charges.
How it works
Scope the role: tell us the software, the workload, and the experience level, and we confirm the exact profile within one business day. Meet vetted candidates: we send a shortlist of skills-tested, reference-checked professionals, typically within 10 to 14 days. You choose, we employ: you interview and pick your hire, and we handle employment, payroll, equipment standards, and HR. Then they work as your staff, in your tools, on your processes, with your clients, while we stay in the background. See the full detail on how it works.
The economics, honestly stated
A fully-loaded U.S. bookkeeper costs $55,000 to $75,000 a year before software and overhead. A dedicated offshore bookkeeper from Ultimate Bookkeeper runs $8.50 to $10.75 an hour depending on experience, roughly $18,000 to $23,000 a year fully loaded. Same full-time output at roughly a third of the cost, with no recruiting fees, no placement fees, and no deposits. What you see on our pricing page is what you pay.
Why firms switch from BPO vendors to staffing
Firms come to us after a done-for-you vendor lets them down: rotating anonymous staff, work that comes back wrong, and no one to hold accountable. With a dedicated team member, quality compounds. Your offshore professional learns your clients, your chart of accounts conventions, and your review standards. Three months in, they work like a three-year hire. Accounting firms can read the firm-specific view on our page for accounting firms.
Frequently asked questions
Is this outsourcing or staffing?
Staffing. Your dedicated professional works only for you, inside your systems, on your schedule. We never touch your clients' work as a vendor.
What does it cost?
$8.50 per hour for bookkeepers with 5+ years of experience, $10.75 per hour for 10+ years. Published, flat, with no setup fees, no deposits, and no recruitment charges.
How fast can we start?
Most firms interview vetted candidates within 10 to 14 days of scoping the role.
Who supervises the work?
You do, the same way you supervise any staff member. We handle employment, HR, and retention so the management burden stays light.
What software do they know?
QuickBooks Online, Xero, and the common payroll and AP/AR stacks. We match candidates to your exact setup during scoping.