# Finance Operations Specialist — Bookkeeping, AR/AP & Forecasting
**Remote | Full-time | Hands-on individual contributor | Africa and Latin America sourcing focus**
MyBCAT is looking for a finance operator who does more than wait for a checklist. We need someone who can open messy books, identify what is actually wrong, build a sensible plan, and drive the work to completion.
You will support MyBCAT, a U.S.-based remote services company, and Classic Vision Care (CVC), its sister clinical business. You will work directly with the founder. There are no direct reports: this is a hands-on role for someone who personally reconciles, investigates, follows up, forecasts, documents, and closes loops.
## What you will own
- Bookkeeping cleanup and monthly close across two separate QuickBooks Online companies.
- Bank and credit-card reconciliations, including root-cause investigation.
- Accounts receivable: invoicing, aging review, follow-up, and collection-risk escalation.
- Accounts payable: vendor bills, approval routing, payment preparation, and exception tracking.
- Payroll inputs, deadline checks, reconciliations, and backup documentation within approved controls.
- A practical 13-week cash forecast and simple 12-month planning view.
- Short weekly updates explaining what changed, why, what is at risk, and what decision is needed.
- Process improvements that reduce duplicate work while protecting controls and evidence.
## What excellent performance looks like
Within 30 days, you will map the condition of both sets of books, identify the highest-risk gaps, and establish a reliable weekly cash/AR/AP/payroll-risk update. By day 90, current-period reconciliations and close work should run on an agreed cadence, forecasts should be usable, and at least one revenue leak, avoidable cost, or fragile handoff should be quantified and addressed.
## You may be a strong fit if you have
- Three or more years of hands-on bookkeeping or finance-operations experience.
- Strong QuickBooks Online cleanup, reconciliation, and month-end-close experience.
- Direct AR, AP, invoicing, and cash-management experience.
- Experience supporting U.S.-based clients or companies.
- Built or maintained cash forecasts or financial projections.
- Clear written and spoken English and the ability to explain finance to a non-finance founder.
- A record of finding and fixing problems without waiting for every step.
- The judgment to say “I do not know yet,” investigate, and return with evidence.
Multi-entity bookkeeping, U.S. payroll, Bill.com, service-business finance, and responsible use of AI tools are helpful but not mandatory.
## The traits we will test
- **Ownership:** You personally drive outcomes rather than only assigning work or reporting problems.
- **Problem solving:** You trace numbers to operational causes and propose practical next actions.
- **Integrity:** You report mistakes, protect confidential information, and do not hide uncomfortable facts.
- **Accountability:** You meet commitments, follow up professionally, and escalate blockers early.
- **Clarity:** Your updates are concise enough to support a decision.
## Compensation and schedule
- Full-time, 40 hours per week.
- At least four reliable working hours overlapping the U.S. Eastern business day.
- Total monthly compensation budget: **USD 800 equivalent**, paid monthly in your local currency through Wise.
- The written offer will state the local-currency amount, exchange-rate convention, fee handling, engagement structure, and responsibility for local taxes and benefits before acceptance.
- Remote. We are initially sourcing in Africa and Latin America, while considering applicants elsewhere when schedule, compensation, payment coverage, and local requirements fit.
We evaluate job-related evidence. We do not use photos, names, health or family information, or other non-job-related traits in scoring. Missing or generic answers are not positive evidence.
