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Virtual Assistant For CPAs

Offload data entry, tax preparation assistance, and bookkeeping tasks to skilled virtual assistants, enhancing your CPA practice's efficiency and client service capabilities.

Virtual Assistant For CPAs
4related role examples
2industry crossovers
Managed + Directmodels this use case can fit

Use case overview

Why Virtual Assistants Elevate CPA Productivity

Free your accounting professionals from routine tasks while maintaining quality and compliance. Cherry Assistant smoothly integrate with your practice to handle paperwork and organization so you can focus on high-value advisory services.

How Cherry Assistant supports it

Our virtual assistants for CPAs specialize in tax season support, client communication management, and financial data organization - creating bandwidth for your firm to serve more clients without adding office staff or overhead costs.

With backgrounds in accounting support roles and equipped with industry software proficiency, our VAs maintain meticulous accuracy in data entry while adhering to confidentiality standards that accounting professionals demand.

By delegating routine accounting tasks to Cherry Assistant, your practice gains flexible scaling capacity during peak periods, transforming fixed staffing costs into variable expenses that align perfectly with your firm's workflow demands.

Role examples

Example roles that commonly support this use case.

These are examples of how Cherry Assistant usually turns this workflow into a scoped hire. The exact role shape still depends on your team, tools, and support lane.

Tax Document Organizer

Hire a Tax Document Organizer through Cherry Assistant to efficiently manage and organize your tax-related paperwork throughout the year.

Accounting Assistant

Hire an Accounting Assistant through Cherry Assistant to prepare tax forms like W-2s and 1099s, ensure accurate filings, and keep your business compliant.

Bookkeeper

Hire a Bookkeeper through Cherry Assistant to manage transaction categorization, expense tracking, receipt management, and basic financial reporting.

Accounts Receivable Specialist

Hire an Accounts Receivable Specialist through Cherry Assistant to streamline your entire billing cycle and improve your cash flow management.

Client Stories

Trusted by Business Owners Like You

Hear what Cherry Assistant clients have to say about working with our remote virtual assistants and offshore talent from South Africa and the Philippines.

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Why this use case works offshore

Why teams use Cherry Assistant for this workflow.

The win is usually not just lower labor cost. It is better role ownership, cleaner handoff, and a support structure that keeps the workflow running without constant founder attention.

Clear recurring ownership

Cherry Assistant helps turn this use case into a repeatable role instead of an ad hoc freelancer task list.

Stronger communication

We bias toward communication-heavy hires who can follow through inside real business systems and client workflows.

Timezone overlap where it matters

South Africa and the Philippines give teams practical coverage options depending on the role cadence and handoff needs.

Lower operational drag

Managed hire keeps sourcing, onboarding, and active support inside Cherry Assistant instead of adding more admin to your team.

Scales with the workflow

You can start with a recurring hire, expand into a more senior role, or move into a different model as the workflow matures.

Workflow quality stays visible

A dedicated hire makes it easier to document the process, monitor outputs, and improve execution over time instead of relying on scattered handoffs.

Flexible hiring models

Two ways to hire through Cherry Assistant.

Options for all types of companies. Choose between monthly subscription where Cherry Assistant manages payroll and retention or a direct placement where you onboard talent directly.

Option 1: Managed Staffing (Monthly Subscription)

Cherry Assistant recruits and manages the candidate, but you still work with them directly. By having Cherry Assistant retain talent, you get support on retention. Cherry Assistant manages hires using our internal time trackers, check-ins, in-house software, and white-glove onboarding.

Best for

Best for companies that want to outsource payroll, management, legal, taxes, and employment headaches to Cherry Assistant.

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Option 2: Direct Hire (One-Time Placement Fee)

You pay a single one-time fee. Cherry searches, screens, vets, and shortlists talent, then your team hires and onboards the candidate directly. You receive the same level of recruiting and vetting as you would with a managed service.

Best for

Best for companies that want recruiting help but prefer to own talent directly and handle payroll themselves.

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Option 1: Managed Hire

Managed Staffing (Monthly Subscription) Pricing

Select a tab to view monthly subscription pricing based on experience level. These are what you can expect for most roles, but for some specialist roles like video editors, designers, and technical operators, pricing may vary.

Quarter Time

10 hours per week of vetted offshore talent.

$597/mo

Perfect for steady support

  • Fluent English and college educated.
  • 2-4 years of professional experience.
  • Sourcing, vetting, and onboarding support.
  • Access to our SOP library.
  • Reliable independent support with light oversight.
Get Started

Pause or cancel anytime. No hidden fees.

Half Time

20 hours per week of vetted offshore talent.

$897/mo

Perfect for core workflows

  • Fluent English and college educated.
  • 2-4 years of professional experience.
  • Sourcing, vetting, and onboarding support.
  • Access to our SOP library.
  • Reliable independent support with light oversight.
Get Started

Pause or cancel anytime. No hidden fees.

Full Time

40 hours per week of vetted offshore talent.

$1,697/mo

Perfect for workflow ownership

  • Fluent English and college educated.
  • 2-4 years of professional experience.
  • Custom personality testing and matching.
  • Sourcing, vetting, and onboarding support.
  • Access to our SOP library.
Get Started

Pause or cancel anytime. No hidden fees.

Example Roles

Real role examples for the current Associate tier.

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Industry overlap

Where this use case shows up most often.

Many workflows cross multiple industries. Use these related pages to see how the same use case gets scoped differently depending on the market, client type, and operating rhythm.

Financial Services

Streamline your financial services firm with skilled virtual assistants. Delegate data entry, client communication, and reporting tasks for enhanced efficiency. Our VAs handle sensitive financial information securely while reducing overhead costs.

Accounting

Boost your accounting or bookkeeping practice with virtual assistants who handle data entry, invoicing, and reporting. Free up your team for client work while we manage the back-office details securely and efficiently.

Frequently Asked Questions

Get clear answers before you commit.

Not seeing what you are looking for? Read our full FAQ.

Cherry Assistant is an offshore staffing and recruiting agency based in the US. We help businesses in the US and the UK hire global remote talent in South Africa and the Philippines.

We can find an equivalent person in South Africa or the Philippines for just about any remote role in the US.

A virtual assistant is a general term for an offshore professional who provides administrative, technical, or creative assistance to clients remotely.

All virtual assistants are remote workers, but not all remote workers are virtual assistants. Virtual assistants usually fill support roles.

Most clients are matched with a virtual assistant in about one to two weeks. We handle sourcing, vetting, and onboarding.

No long-term contract is required. You can work month-to-month and pause or stop any time.