Hire a Fractional Staff Accountant

Get a vetted Staff Accountant who takes transactional work off your senior team so your close moves faster and your reviewers get their time back.

Why Hire a Fractional Staff Accountant

Your senior people are doing junior work

A Controller or Senior Accountant is posting entries and chasing reconciliations that a staff-level hire should handle.

The close bottlenecks on data entry

The team cannot get to analysis because the transactional layer eats the whole cycle.

You need capacity without a permanent seat

The volume is real, but it does not justify a full-time salary with benefits yet.

Coverage is thin during crunch periods

Quarter-end, audit prep, or a teammate's leave leaves gaps that slow everything down.

Fractional or full-time?

Full-time fits when transactional volume is steady and high year-round. Fractional fits when you need reliable staff-level support on a defined scope, with hours that flex around your busy periods.

Find a Staff Accountant

What Your Fractional Staff Accountant Owns

Journal Entries

Posts accurate, well-documented entries so the close stays clean.

Account Reconciliations

Reconciles assigned accounts and flags anything that looks off.

Transaction Processing

Handles the day-to-day recording that keeps the ledger current.

Close Support

Takes the transactional load off senior staff during month-end.

Schedule Preparation

Builds the supporting schedules your reviewers and auditors need.

Top 2% Fractional Talent, Matched by Our Finance Talent Engine

Even at the staff level, accuracy and reliability vary widely, and a bad hire creates rework upstream. MAVI's finance talent engine screens for both, drawing on seven intelligence models and human review across hundreds of thousands of finance professionals.

That means the two profiles you see are already proven on the fundamentals. More than nine times in ten, one of them is your hire.

How MAVI Places Fractional Staff Accountant

Find a Staff Accountant
1

Describe the Work

Tell us the systems you run and the work you need covered.

2

Targeted Matching

We evaluate our vetted network against your actual scope, not generic keywords.

3

Two Solid Profiles

You see two matched candidates, not fifty.

4

Quick Interviews

Conversations happen within days of your first call.

5

Fast Onboarding

Your Senior Accountant onboards fast and ships work that week.

6

Continuous Support

We stay on after placement, so when a need shifts you never restart the hunt for coverage.

Meet Fractional Staff Accountants in Our Network

Bea
US Exp: 5 years | Location: Philippines
Staff Accountant with 7 years in accounts payable, receivable, and general ledger for US companies. Processes high transaction volume with a strong accuracy record and prepares clean close schedules. Proficient in NetSuite and QuickBooks.
Kofi
US Exp: 6 years | Location: Ghana
Accountant with 8 years supporting US finance teams. Owns full reconciliations across bank, credit card, and prepaid accounts, and cleared a reconciliation backlog for a scaling client. Skilled in QuickBooks and Excel.
Lucia
US Exp: 5 years | Location: Peru
Staff Accountant with 7 years in transactional accounting. Handles journal entries and month-end support for a US ecommerce company and reduced posting errors through a tighter documentation habit. Bilingual, US hours.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Is a Staff Accountant senior enough to work with little supervision?

    The Staff Accountants we place bring several years of experience and a proven accuracy record, so they handle their assigned scope reliably with normal review, not constant oversight.

  • What should a Staff Accountant handle versus a Senior Accountant?

    A Staff Accountant owns transactional work: entries, reconciliations, and schedule prep. A Senior Accountant owns the harder judgment calls and the review layer. Pairing the two lets each work at the right level.

  • Can a fractional Staff Accountant help just during our busy season?

    Yes. Flexing coverage up for quarter-end, audit prep, or a leave, then back down afterward, is one of the most common ways teams use a fractional Staff Accountant.

  • How do you make sure the work is accurate?

    Accuracy is a core part of our vetting, and placed talent works within your review process. Their output feeds your senior reviewers the same way an in-house staff hire's would.

  • Will a Staff Accountant know our accounting software?

    We match on the specific systems you run, so your Staff Accountant is already fluent in your stack rather than learning it on your time.

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