Accounting Associate

Ready to help craft breweries master their numbers?

If you’re a strong bookkeeper who hasn’t found the right training, team, or opportunity to grow into a high‑level accountant, this role was built for you.

We’re Small Batch Standard , a remote accounting, tax, and consulting firm built exclusively to serve the craft brewing industry. In short, we help breweries make more profit so they can focus on brewing great beer.

We’re looking for a full-time Brewery Accounting Associate to support the day-to-day bookkeeping needs of our brewery clients and grow into a brewery accounting specialist.

This role is ideal if you’re an Accounting Associate, Bookkeeper, or Staff Accountant who wants:

- 100% remote work with no timesheets or hour tracking.

- One clearly defined niche: you work only with craft breweries.

- A stable, recurring book of clients you get to know deeply over time.

- A team filled with self-managing accounting experts dedicated to your growth.

- A clear path from Associate → Accountant, often in 6–12 months , with matching pay increases.

Compensation and Benefits

Here’s what this role has to offer as an on-ramp to our high-level accounting team:

- Base Salary: $51,000-$60,000 per year based on skills and experience.

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Clear promotion track to Accountant ($64,000-$73,000 plus bonus eligibility) once you’ve met our mastery benchmarks. Many Associates reach this in 6–12 months.

- 100% remote, no in-office requirements, flexible schedule with no time sheets or hours tracking.

- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability), 3 weeks PTO/Sick, and 11 company holidays.

- Continuing education support through books, courses, and certifications, plus brewery visits and industry conference attendance so you actually see the impact of your work.

What You’ll Do

You’ll report to an Accounting Manager and play a key role in keeping our brewery clients’ books clean and up to date. In this role you will:

- Handle the day‑to‑day AP and bookkeeping work for a set of brewery clients in Bill.com and QuickBooks Online.

- Maintain clean, accurate QBO bank feeds by matching transactions, entering payroll, and keeping bank and POS syncs current.

- Support monthly close work by collecting and preparing statements and documentation for your Accountant teammates.

- Communicate with brewery clients to request information, resolve questions, and keep their accounting moving smoothly.

- Collaborate closely with our Accountants and other Associates so they have what they need from your work to complete monthly close and compliance filings.

Growth Path

We hire Accounting Associates with the goal of growing them into brewery accounting experts and, ultimately, into our Accountant role. Here’s how that progression works:

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Level 1: Brewery Bookkeeping Foundation . You’ll focus on building a strong bookkeeping base for your brewery clients. This includes processing invoices, receipts, credit memos, and other documents in Bill.com and QBO, maintaining clean bank feeds and POS syncs, and learning our internal systems and workflows. The goal at this stage is accuracy, consistency, and mastering the fundamentals.

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Level 2: Brewery Bookkeeping and Close Support . Once you’ve nailed the basics, you’ll start taking on monthly close tasks for select clients under your manager’s guidance. You’ll prepare reconciliations and other close‑related work, begin communicating directly with clients to gather information, resolve issues, and troubleshoot routine bookkeeping and tech‑stack questions.

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Level 3: Brewery Close Ready (Path to Accountant) . At this stage, you’re splitting your time roughly 50/50 between recurring bookkeeping and close work. You’ll own the full monthly close for many of your assigned clients (including reconciliations, accruals, inventory, etc.) with support from your Accounting Manager. As you demonstrate consistency against our mastery metrics, you’ll be ready to step into the full Accou