What We Do
TaskMasters places dedicated, degreed accounting professionals into US businesses and CPA firms — full-time, in your time zone, working only for you. Not a shared service bureau, and not a freelancer marketplace: one named operator, embedded in your workflow, backed by our 30-Day Right-Fit Guarantee.
Services
Every role below is placed the same way: degreed candidates, skills-tested against the specific work they will do, then embedded into your systems with daily accountability through the client portal.
Day-to-day books kept current, not reconstructed at year-end.
Your operator categorises transactions, reconciles bank and credit card accounts, posts journal entries, and closes the month on a fixed schedule. You get books that are current when you need a decision, and a clean file your CPA is not billing hourly to untangle in March.
Certified operators in the two platforms most US firms already run.
Every operator we place is QuickBooks certified, and most work in Xero as well. That covers day-to-day operation, chart-of-accounts structure, platform migration, and cleaning up a file that has drifted. You are not paying for someone to learn your software on your time.
Bills paid on time, invoices out on time, and someone chasing what is owed.
AP/AR is the first thing to slip when an owner gets busy, and the most expensive to let slip. Your operator runs the bill-pay cycle, issues and tracks invoices, works the aging report, and follows up on collections so revenue you already earned actually arrives.
Prep and workpaper support for 1040, 1120/1120S and K-1 filings.
Operators prepare returns and organise supporting workpapers so your licensed CPA or EA reviews and signs rather than assembles. Built for firms that need throughput between January and April without hiring seasonal staff in the US and carrying them the rest of the year.
Payroll runs, contractor filings, and the admin around both.
Timesheet collection, payroll run preparation, contractor 1099 tracking, and the record-keeping that has to be right before it is filed. Operators work in Gusto and ADP, and can be trained onto whatever platform your firm already standardised on.
The reports that let you make a decision, delivered on a schedule.
Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash position, and the KPI views that actually inform a decision, produced on a set cadence instead of on request. Includes variance work so a number that moved comes with an explanation attached rather than a question.
The intake and document work that eats a firm's billable hours.
New-client intake, document collection and chasing, engagement records, and CRM hygiene inside the practice-management tools accounting firms actually use, including Karbon and TaxDome. The work that has to happen but should not be done by someone billing at partner rates.
Senior capacity for multi-entity files and review-level work.
For firms and businesses past the point where a bookkeeper is enough: full-charge accounting, multi-entity consolidation, and review-level work on files that need judgement rather than data entry. Placed against the same skills testing as every other role.
Need a role that is not listed? We build custom skills assessments around your stack and workflow — tell us what you need.
How It Works
A 20-minute call to map the actual work, your software stack, and the hours you need covered. If we are not the right fit, we will say so on that call.
We shortlist against your requirements and test candidates on the specific tasks the role involves — not a generic aptitude score.
You interview the shortlist and pick your operator. NDAs are signed and access is scoped before any work begins.
We handle onboarding into your systems. From day one you get daily reports and live status in the client portal, plus 30 days to confirm the fit.
Who We Work With
You are doing your own books at 11pm and it is costing you the work only you can do. A dedicated bookkeeper takes the recurring finance work off your desk permanently, for less than a part-time local hire.
For business ownersYou are turning away work because you cannot staff it, and US hiring is slow and expensive. Build an offshore bench of degreed, tested operators who plug into your existing process instead of reshaping it.
For accounting firmsEngagement Models
All four include skills-tested placement, client portal access with daily reporting, and the 30-Day Right-Fit Guarantee.
One dedicated operator, 40 hours a week, embedded in your business or one of your clients' books. Lowest commitment and the fastest way to start.
A tiered engagement for growing firms: 3, 5 or 10 seats mixing bookkeepers, AP/AR and tax prep, with volume pricing as the bench grows.
Pre-vetted tax prep operators for the January-to-April window, with the option to convert the ones you want to keep into permanent seats.
Fixed scope, fixed price catch-up for books that have fallen behind, covering up to 12 months of backlog before moving into ongoing support.
Common Questions
A dedicated bookkeeper handles the recurring financial work of your business: categorising transactions, reconciling accounts, managing bills and invoices, and closing your books each month. At TaskMasters this is one named person working your hours, not a shared pool of people picking up tickets.
Standard placement is $2,500 per month for 40 hours per week of dedicated support, plus a one-time setup fee. Your actual cost depends on the role, seniority, and scope, which we confirm on your fit call before anything is signed.
With a freelancer you are the recruiter, the interviewer, the trainer, and the one carrying the risk if it does not work. We vet through real skills tests, give you a portal with daily accountability, and back the placement with the 30-Day Right-Fit Guarantee.
Yes. Our operators routinely work US business hours across Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. You also get live online and offline status in the client portal, so there is never a question about whether someone is working.
QuickBooks and Xero are standard, and every operator we place is QuickBooks certified. Operators also work across Karbon, TaxDome, Sage and Gusto, and can be trained onto the specific stack your firm already runs.
Yes. The Books Cleanup Crew is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement built for backlog, covering up to 12 months of catch-up work. Most clients move into ongoing support once the books are current.
From fit call to an embedded operator is typically 14 to 21 days. If you are against a deadline, such as a filing date or a backlog that has to clear, we can usually move faster.
Every operator signs a comprehensive NDA before access is granted. You keep control of permissions: we recommend user-level logins in QuickBooks or Xero rather than sharing your own credentials, and read-only bank feeds where the workflow allows it.
Twenty minutes, no pitch deck. We will tell you which role actually fits, what it would cost, and whether we are the right partner — or whether you would be better served somewhere else.
Book a 20-min fit callOr email us: info@thetaskmasters.com