Bookkeeper · cover letter
[Date]
Dear [Hiring Manager],
In my current role I cut the monthly close from nine business days to four by rebuilding the bank reconciliation workflow in QuickBooks and clearing a backlog of 600 uncategorized transactions. I would like to bring that same order to the books at [Company].
For the past five years I have owned full-cycle bookkeeping for a company billing roughly 2 million dollars a year. I manage accounts payable and accounts receivable end to end, run a twice-monthly payroll for 38 employees, and reconcile six bank and credit card accounts every month so the general ledger always ties out before reporting.
Accuracy is where I add the most value. I built a standardized invoicing and expense tracking process that brought our average days-sales-outstanding from 52 to 31, which freed up cash the owner could actually plan around. I also caught a duplicate-vendor issue that had been quietly overcharging us about 400 dollars a month, then set up controls so it could not recur.
What draws me to [Company] is that you clearly value books that are ready for decisions, not just compliant at year end. I work cleanly with outside accountants at tax time and keep documentation tidy enough that an audit is a non-event rather than a fire drill.
The first weeks on a new set of books go into clearing whatever backlog is already sitting there before touching the close calendar at all, which is exactly how the 600 uncategorized transactions here became zero before the close moved from nine days to four. I can start categorizing on day one in whichever version of QuickBooks you run.
Warm regards,
[Your Name]
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