A bookkeeping virtual assistant for Sydney practices.

A bookkeeping VA runs $25-35/hr AUD and an admin VA $12-17/hr, billed only for the hours you book. A local junior in Sydney advertises lower than that on the base rate, but once you add the 12% super guarantee, an icare workers compensation premium, four weeks leave plus sick pay and the idle hours between jobs, a loaded local hire lands at roughly $35-45/hr. This is an estimate, not a quote, but the shape holds across the Sydney market. Nothing in the VA arrangement attracts super, an icare premium or NSW payroll tax.

No. DotVA places the VA as a managed remote contractor in Manila, not a staff member you employ, so the arrangement does not attract super, an icare workers compensation premium or NSW payroll tax. For context, NSW payroll tax runs at 5.45% and only applies once your wages bill passes the $1.2 million threshold, a line most Sydney bookkeeping practices sit under, whereas super and icare land on a genuine local hire from the first hour. With the VA you pay one hourly rate and nothing else.

Your VA works in Manila to your Sydney diary on AEST and AEDT. Manila sits two hours behind on AEST and three through daylight saving, so the bulk of the document chasing, the Dext uploads and the reconciliation prep happens through your local business day and is sitting ready when your team logs in. There is no Sydney office to visit; the work is delivered remotely into your Xero and MYOB files. DotVA itself is run from Melbourne, so the relationship, onboarding and billing are handled in your timezone.

Yes. We match a VA with prior bookkeeping or accounts experience where we can, across Xero and MYOB for the ledgers, Dext or Hubdoc for source-document capture, and a workflow tool such as Karbon for jobs and client document requests. Onboarding covers your chart-of-accounts conventions, your file standards and your review process before the VA touches a live client file, and access is role-scoped to the files they need. They work to your standards under your agent oversight, not their own interpretation.

A typical match takes 7 to 10 days from the discovery call. There is a 30-day guarantee, so if the fit is wrong inside the first month we re-match at no cost, and the $500 deposit that holds your place is refundable. For a Sydney practice mid-quarter that is a low-risk way to test whether moving the inbox sorting, the Dext uploads and the reconciliation prep off your qualified bookkeepers frees up the hours you expect it to.