A construction bookkeeper maintains the financial records of a contracting business with one difference from general bookkeeping: every transaction has to land against the right job and cost code. Helping Companies provides remote construction bookkeeping for contractors whose books are technically accurate but tell them nothing useful about which jobs are actually making money.
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A remote construction bookkeeper handles the full cycle of day-to-day accounting for a contracting business: accounts payable and receivable, bank and credit card reconciliation, job cost coding, payroll data entry, and monthly financial reporting. The distinguishing feature is job costing - transactions coded so that job profitability, committed cost, and work in progress are visible rather than buried. Helping Companies provides this role for contractors without in-house accounting staff.
Full-cycle bookkeeping support fits contractors who do not have accounting staff and are currently doing the books themselves or handing a box of receipts to someone once a quarter.
The work is standard bookkeeping performed with construction discipline: every transaction lands against the right job and the right cost code.
Platform experience is confirmed against your requirements before any candidate is presented.
Bookkeeping tells you whether the business made money. Job-costed bookkeeping tells you which work to stop taking.
Every engagement starts with understanding the work you actually need covered, not a generic job description.
We review your current workload, the software your team works in, and the specific tasks you want covered.
We agree a written scope for the role: the tasks it owns, the tasks it does not, and how work is reviewed and approved.
We match remote staff to the defined role and introduce them to your team, your systems, and your standards.
Access is set up, early work is reviewed closely, and scope expands as your team gains confidence in the output.
Drag the sliders to estimate what the admin work this role takes on is costing your company today.
Estimates only. They assume a placeholder blended rate of $18 per hour for the remote professional, and that about 10% of the work stays with your team for direction and review. Your free consultation includes an exact quote for your scope.
Hours freed up per week
38 hrs/week
Estimated weekly saving
$588/week
Estimated annual saving
$30,576/year
If something here is specific to how your projects run, raise it on the consultation.
A construction bookkeeper handles accounts payable and receivable, reconciles accounts, codes transactions to jobs and cost codes, processes payroll data, and prepares monthly financial and job cost reports. The construction-specific part is job costing - without it, the books balance but tell you nothing about which jobs earned.
Job costing, progress billing, retainage, lien waivers, and work in progress. A general bookkeeper records an expense; a construction bookkeeper records it against the job and cost code so profitability by job is visible. Contractors also bill and get paid in ways most industries do not.
No. A bookkeeper maintains the records. A CPA provides tax, audit, and advisory services and files returns. Remote bookkeeping support works alongside your CPA - it does not replace them. Helping Companies places bookkeeping and accounting support staff. It does not provide tax, audit or CPA services.
You grant the access, in your own accounting system, at the permission level you choose, and you can change or revoke it at any time. The role is scoped to the minimum permissions the work requires rather than full administrative access. If your controls require restrictions on banking access, named user accounts, or a confidentiality agreement in place before work starts, those are set as requirements while the position is being defined and the search is run against them.
Setting up a job costing structure - cost codes, job templates, and how transactions get coded - is normally part of onboarding when it does not already exist. It usually delivers more value than the ongoing bookkeeping itself.
Payroll support in this role means collecting and entering hours and preparing the run for your review and approval. Certified payroll reporting for prevailing wage work is a separate compliance obligation and is not assumed to be part of the position. If your work requires it, it is defined explicitly before recruiting begins and candidates are screened against that requirement. Filing and compliance responsibility remain with your business either way.
Schedule a consultation to review how your books are kept today, whether job costing is working, and what a remote construction bookkeeper would take over.
