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An accountant helps businesses track, organize, analyze, and report financial information. Their responsibilities often include preparing financial statements, maintaining general ledger records, reconciling accounts, reviewing transactions, supporting month-end and year-end close, and helping leadership understand the company’s financial position.
A strong accountant gives you more than clean numbers. They help you make better financial decisions with accurate reporting, organized records, and reliable financial processes.
The cost to hire an accountant depends on experience level, location, software expertise, and the complexity of your finance operations. Based on our accountant salary benchmarks, a U.S.-based accountant averages around $5,700 per month, while a Latin American accountant averages around $2,300 per month, creating potential savings of up to 60%.
That difference can make a major impact for startups, agencies, and growing companies that need strong finance support without stretching their monthly budget.
Yes. Hiring a remote accountant from Latin America is a practical option for companies that want skilled finance talent in U.S.-aligned time zones. Latin American accountants can support financial reporting, reconciliations, bookkeeping oversight, payroll coordination, month-end close, and accounting operations during your regular business hours.
Because many professionals in the region already work with U.S. companies, you can find candidates with strong English communication skills, remote-work experience, and familiarity with international business expectations.
When hiring an accountant, look for someone with strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, reconciliations, general ledger functions, and month-end or year-end close. They should also be accurate, detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable working with numbers.
You may also want experience with tools like QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, SAP, Excel, Google Sheets, or other accounting software, depending on your company’s systems. For more advanced roles, GAAP knowledge, a degree in Accounting or Finance, and certifications like CPA or CMA can be valuable.
A bookkeeper usually focuses on recording and organizing daily financial transactions, such as invoices, payments, expenses, and bank reconciliations. An accountant typically works at a higher level, using that financial data to prepare reports, analyze performance, support compliance, review financial statements, and guide business decisions.
Many companies need both. A bookkeeper keeps the financial records clean, while an accountant helps turn those records into useful insights.
You should consider hiring an accountant when your finances become too complex to manage with basic bookkeeping alone. Common signs include growing revenue, expanding payroll, multiple bank accounts, investor reporting needs, cash flow challenges, messy financial statements, or a month-end close process that takes too long.
An accountant can also be valuable when leadership needs clearer visibility into profitability, expenses, budgets, and financial performance.
We help you find, vet, hire, and pay skilled accountants from Latin America. Instead of spending weeks sorting through resumes, you can tell us what kind of accounting support you need, review pre-vetted candidates, and hire someone who fits your budget, time zone, and business goals.
We support the process from sourcing and screening to onboarding, payroll, and compliance, so you can bring on accounting talent with less risk and less administrative work. Schedule a free call now to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
