Chris Nolan – Remote Accountant

How does Chris make money online?

Chris has a remote job as a Staff Accountant at SureSwift Capital, an investment firm that buys bootstrapped businesses from their SaaS founders to elevate them “to the next stage of growth.” 

As per Wikipedia:

Staff Accountant is a mid-level accounting position between junior accountant and senior accountant. At public accounting firms, staff accountant may be an entry-level position.

Staff accountants typically have bachelor degrees but are not necessarily Certified Public Accountants.

Typical duties of a staff accountant include preparing journal entries and reconciliations. Staff accountants may also perform duties such as accounts payable and accounts receivable. A corporate staff accountant typically reports to a controller or accounting manager.

In a May 2020 interview, Chris described the appeal of having a remote job:

How much money does a Remote Accountant make?

We don’t know how much SureSwift Capital pays for this position.

As of this writing, Glassdoor puts the salary range for a Staff Accountant at $40k – $71k per year, with a $53k average.

The salary range for a remote Staff Accountant may differ slightly.

What’s Chris’s background?

As per Chris’s LinkedIn, he has over 3 years of accounting and finance experience in various companies.

Here’s how he described his skills:

Successful at handling daily cash management and reporting cash flow activities to all stakeholders. […] I have extensive experience managing bank account reconciliations, conducting month end close operations and financial statement preparation.

His education credentials:

Chris already had experience working remotely before landing his current job. He had been working as a remote bookkeeper at Thinkful for about 7 months until the company was bought out and Chris got laid off.

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Where to find remote jobs like this?

Chris was hired through FlexJobs – one of the most popular remote job boards.

As described in the same interview:

While he had set up automated searches that were emailed to him regularly, Chris found his job by reviewing new job postings in industries outside his regular career area.

It looks like it took Chris about 2-3 months to find his current remote job.

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What type of online business does Chris have?

According to our framework Chris has a remote job, which would be considered a Level 2 online business.

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