I work with accounting and bookkeeping firms as a contractor — an extension of your team for overflow files, clean-ups, and year-end prep. You keep the client relationship. I make the file right.
Engage me per file, per project, or per season — whatever your workload needs. No minimums, no long-term commitment required.
Ongoing monthly files handled under your firm's standards — and under your firm's name if you prefer. Full-cycle: reconciliations, A/P, A/R, payroll, remittances, month-end close.
The messy files nobody on your team has time for. I take ownership of historical discrepancies and bring the file current, reconciled, and ready for your review.
Files delivered accountant-review-ready: reconciled accounts, tied-out balances, supporting schedules, and clean working papers — so your seniors spend their time on tax, not tidy-up.
Experienced supporting CRA reviews and audits: pulling documentation, building schedules, and keeping the file defensible from the bookkeeping side up.
The most common worry about subcontracting bookkeeping is the obvious one — so let's settle it up front, on paper. Before any file changes hands, I'll sign the full protection package:
Your clients are yours. I will never approach them, quote them, or take them on directly — during our engagement or after it ends.
I work for your firm, not around it. On files you bring me, I'm a contractor under your brand and your engagement terms — never a competing bid.
Full non-disclosure on your client data, your working papers, your pricing and your processes. Happy to sign your firm's own NDA, or provide one.
I'm a contractor and a partner, not a competitor — my business grows when your firm trusts me with more files, and that only happens if the boundary is absolute.Your paper or mine — whichever your firm prefers.
You're handing a client file to one person — here's who that person is.
Started in accounting in 1997 and founded Go Fig Bookz the same year, running the practice alongside industry roles for two decades — from accounting clerk to full-cycle bookkeeper (payroll, remittances, HR) at an optical distributor, then General Manager of a distribution company running the entire operation end to end, plus retail merchandising management and software training with Intuit Canada. Completed an Accounting Certificate at Humber College, with further controllership courses there and CGA program coursework at Ryerson University.
Joined as a bookkeeper and rose to Controller as the agency grew from under $1M to more than $22M — leading a four-person finance team, with payroll spanning 63 head-office staff and a 1,700+ person retail field force across Canadian and U.S. entities. Led the implementation of Salesforce and FinancialForce, and redesigned the month-end close, cutting the reporting cycle from 15 days to 5.
Full-cycle bookkeeping and outsourced accounting support for small and mid-sized businesses and accounting firms — catch-up and clean-up engagements, job costing and multi-entity files, CRA review and audit support, and year-end preparation. Canada-wide remote support including Ontario and Alberta, with U.S. client experience in Florida and California. 100% cloud-based.
Advanced QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor. Strong systems mindset — workflow design, app-to-app integration, and process improvement are part of the service, not an add-on.
Straightforward hourly rates for firm work — or a flat per-file quote if your firm prefers fixed costs. CAD for Canadian firms; the same pricing in USD for US firms.
$45/hr
Volume Bookkeeping
Coding, reconciliations, catch-up entry — always under senior review.
$85/hr
Senior Bookkeeper
Month-end close, review, compliance prep, accountant-ready files.
$125/hr
Consulting & Workflow
App integrations, process design, QBO architecture and training.
$175/hr
Controller
Tie-outs, oversight, year-end control work. Also $1,500/mo fractional.
Go Fig Bookz doesn't prepare tax returns — and plenty of accountants don't want the bookkeeping. That's a natural fit. When my clients need a filer, I refer them to accountants in my network with a clean, reconciled, filing-ready file. When your clients need their books sorted, you know exactly where they'll be looked after — and that they'll come straight back to you at tax time.
No referral fees, no commissions, no strings — just a working relationship between professionals who each do their part well. If that sounds like how you like to work, I'd love to meet you.
Join the NetworkWhether it's one messy file, seasonal overflow, or a referral relationship — start with a quick note. You can also book time directly on Markie's calendar.