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Accountant roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in accounting or a directly related field. Many public accounting firms, corporate finance teams, and financial services employers file H-1B petitions for staff and senior accountants, making this one of the more consistently sponsored professional roles.
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Agile IT is a Microsoft AOS-G partner and Cyber AB Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO) built for the Defense Industrial Base. As one of six original AOS-G resellers for GCC High, we help defense contractors meet CMMC compliance and operate securely in Microsoft cloud environments. Our customers build fighter jet components, naval propulsion systems, satellite payloads, and aerospace platforms that support the Department of War. We make sure their Microsoft environments are ready for the job.
We are in a high-growth phase, and we are stacking the team to match. This role sits at the center of how we get DIB clients across the finish line, from first gap assessment through a C3PAO-led Level 2 assessment and the compliance work that follows.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate, current books in Xero — AP/AR, bill pay, transaction categorization
- Manage and reconcile spend/card activity in Ramp, matching transactions to receipts with correct coding
- Perform General Ledger reconciliations across bank, credit card, and balance-sheet accounts; research and resolve discrepancies
- Post manual journal entries (accruals, prepaids, reclasses, adjustments) with supporting documentation
- Reconcile vendor statements against internal payment records; resolve unmatched and aged items
- Support month-end close and provide clean schedules to reviewers
Qualifications
Skill Requirements
- 2+ years of bookkeeping or transactional accounting experience
- Proficiency in Xero and Autotask (day-to-day operation, not just exposure)
- Working knowledge of Ramp or comparable spend-management platforms
- Experience reconciling online payment processors (e.g., GoCardless, PayPal, Stripe, Square) — including net-of-fee deposits, batched/settlement timing, and refunds and chargebacks
- GL reconciliation — able to find why an account is off and fix it
- Solid grasp of manual journal entries and double-entry accounting fundamentals
- Strong spreadsheet fluency
- Comfortable building and maintaining reconciliation workbooks across multiple tabs
- Proficient with core spreadsheet functions for matching and analysis — lookups (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP), pivot tables, filtering/sorting, and conditional logic
- Able to clean and structure messy data (text-to-columns, deduplication, handling inconsistent formatting) to make it reconcilable
- Attention to detail and the discipline to document work for review
Additional Information
Additional requirements
- Must successfully pass a cognitive assessment as part of the hiring process.
- Must successfully complete a typing test to validate typing speed and accuracy.
- Recommendations required
Compensation & Benefits:
- Competitive executive compensation (base salary + commission):
- Base Salary: $135,000 - $145,000 (Depending on expertise and domain expertise).
- Comprehensive benefits package (medical, retirement plan, PTO, professional development).
- Mission-driven work that directly strengthens the national security supply chain.
Company Description
Agile IT is a Microsoft AOS-G partner and Cyber AB Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO) built for the Defense Industrial Base. As one of six original AOS-G resellers for GCC High, we help defense contractors meet CMMC compliance and operate securely in Microsoft cloud environments. Our customers build fighter jet components, naval propulsion systems, satellite payloads, and aerospace platforms that support the Department of War. We make sure their Microsoft environments are ready for the job.
We are in a high-growth phase, and we are stacking the team to match. This role sits at the center of how we get DIB clients across the finish line, from first gap assessment through a C3PAO-led Level 2 assessment and the compliance work that follows.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate, current books in Xero — AP/AR, bill pay, transaction categorization
- Manage and reconcile spend/card activity in Ramp, matching transactions to receipts with correct coding
- Perform General Ledger reconciliations across bank, credit card, and balance-sheet accounts; research and resolve discrepancies
- Post manual journal entries (accruals, prepaids, reclasses, adjustments) with supporting documentation
- Reconcile vendor statements against internal payment records; resolve unmatched and aged items
- Support month-end close and provide clean schedules to reviewers
Qualifications
Skill Requirements
- 2+ years of bookkeeping or transactional accounting experience
- Proficiency in Xero and Autotask (day-to-day operation, not just exposure)
- Working knowledge of Ramp or comparable spend-management platforms
- Experience reconciling online payment processors (e.g., GoCardless, PayPal, Stripe, Square) — including net-of-fee deposits, batched/settlement timing, and refunds and chargebacks
- GL reconciliation — able to find why an account is off and fix it
- Solid grasp of manual journal entries and double-entry accounting fundamentals
- Strong spreadsheet fluency
- Comfortable building and maintaining reconciliation workbooks across multiple tabs
- Proficient with core spreadsheet functions for matching and analysis — lookups (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP), pivot tables, filtering/sorting, and conditional logic
- Able to clean and structure messy data (text-to-columns, deduplication, handling inconsistent formatting) to make it reconcilable
- Attention to detail and the discipline to document work for review
Additional Information
Additional requirements
- Must successfully pass a cognitive assessment as part of the hiring process.
- Must successfully complete a typing test to validate typing speed and accuracy.
- Recommendations required
Compensation & Benefits:
- Competitive executive compensation (base salary + commission):
- Base Salary: $135,000 - $145,000 (Depending on expertise and domain expertise).
- Comprehensive benefits package (medical, retirement plan, PTO, professional development).
- Mission-driven work that directly strengthens the national security supply chain.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as an Accountant
Verify your credential equivalency early
If your accounting degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved service before applying. Employers filing your H-1B petition need documentation showing your degree is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's in accounting.
Check prevailing wage before accepting offers
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV prevailing wages for accountants in your target city. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the applicable level, and your employer certifies this on the LCA before USCIS sees your petition.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Search Migrate Mate to filter accountant roles by employers who have certified LCAs for accounting positions. This shows which companies have recently gone through the DOL filing process, signaling genuine H-1B sponsorship infrastructure rather than aspirational job listings.
Understand CPA licensure's role in sponsorship
A CPA license strengthens your specialty occupation case, but it isn't required for H-1B eligibility. If you're unlicensed, make sure your job description emphasizes degree-specific duties like financial statement preparation or tax analysis rather than general bookkeeping tasks.
Ask employers about cap-exempt entity affiliations
Accounting roles at universities, nonprofit research institutions, or government-affiliated entities may qualify for cap-exempt H-1B filing. This bypasses the annual lottery entirely, so ask during your offer negotiation whether the employer has any qualifying institutional relationships.
Time your H-1B registration around April 1
USCIS opens H-1B registrations in March for an October 1 start date. If you're selected in the lottery, your employer files the full petition afterward. Confirm your employer understands the registration deadline so you don't miss the window by starting the conversation too late.
H-1B Visa Accountant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an accountant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. Accountant positions qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B rules because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a directly related field. USCIS looks at the job duties, not just the title, so employers typically document that the position requires degree-specific knowledge such as applying GAAP standards, preparing audited financial statements, or performing tax analysis.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for accountants?
Public accounting firms, corporate finance and treasury departments, financial services companies, and large healthcare or tech organizations regularly sponsor accountants. Cap-exempt employers such as universities and nonprofit research institutions can file outside the lottery entirely. You can find accountant roles filtered by employers with active H-1B filing history on Migrate Mate, which surfaces LCA data so you're targeting companies that have already navigated the process.
Does a CPA license affect my H-1B petition as an accountant?
A CPA license isn't required to qualify for H-1B status as an accountant, but it does reinforce the specialty occupation argument. Without it, the employer's H-1B petition needs to clearly show that the role requires a degree in a specific field, not just any bachelor's degree. If your duties include audit sign-offs or roles that require licensure by state law, your employer should address how that requirement is met.
What happens to my H-1B status if I want to change accounting employers?
You can change employers under H-1B portability rules once USCIS has had your petition pending or approved for at least 180 days. Your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition before you start, and you're authorized to begin working as soon as that petition is received by USCIS. The 60-day grace period after leaving your previous employer gives you time to arrange the transfer without accruing unlawful presence.
How does prevailing wage work for sponsored accountant positions?
Before filing your H-1B petition, your employer must certify an LCA with the DOL stating your offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your role and location. The prevailing wage is determined by your job level and geographic area using the OFLC Wage Search. Employers can't offer below that threshold, so your final compensation must be documented in the LCA and held to that standard for the duration of your H-1B status.