Work from home payroll jobs includes bookkeepers and accountants. Your responsibilities as a bookkeeper include monitoring and tagging fixed assets, issuing financial statements, completing data entry, tracking employee salary information, maintaining the petty cash fund, and completing certain HR tasks, such as maintaining employee records. The duties of a virtual accountant include documenting financial transactions, maintaining accounting controls, analyzing accounting problems to recommend financial actions, making sure all finance elements of a business abide by all legal laws and requirements, and preparing financial reports that show the financial health of a company by analyzing, summarizing, and collecting account trends and information.