Legal Accounting Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Honduras, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Ensure comprehensive and precise financial records for the firm’s IOLTA trust accounts and business operating accounts.

• Carefully execute trust transactions and maintain IOLTA records that are current, accurate, and fully traceable.

• Reconcile bank, trust, operating, and accounting records while promptly investigating and resolving discrepancies.

• Handle deposits, disbursements, transfers, invoices, expenses, and other financial transactions, ensuring supporting documentation is provided.

• Keep QuickBooks tidy and up to date.

• Generate recurring financial, reconciliation, and transaction reports utilizing QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel.

• Assist in month-end accounting activities by reviewing balances, organizing records, and completing necessary reconciliations.

• Collaborate with legal and operational team members when information, approvals, or corrections are required.

• Proactively identify unusual activities, missing documentation, or potential accounting issues and report them.

• Uphold strict confidentiality when managing client funds, financial records, settlement-related information, and internal business data.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or completion of relevant accounting coursework.

• Prior hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience within a U.S. law firm.

• Proven track record in managing both IOLTA trust accounts and business operating accounts.

• Advanced proficiency in QuickBooks, encompassing transactions, reconciliations, reports, and account records.

• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, reconciliations, data organization, and financial reporting.

• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.

• Solid understanding of accounting fundamentals.

• Ability to quickly learn new workflows, manage competing priorities, work independently, and maintain accuracy and confidentiality in a fast-paced legal environment.

• Nice to have: accounting experience in a personal injury law firm.

• Nice to have: experience assisting with month-end closing activities in a legal practice.

• Nice to have: familiarity with settlement-related transactions, client ledgers, or personal injury case accounting.

• Nice to have: experience in enhancing bookkeeping, reconciliation, or financial reporting processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to a $200K+ perk marketplace offering discounts on over 150 global services.

• Option to withdraw up to 50% of approved earnings before payday.