About This Role
This Accounting Assistant role involves handling various financial and administrative tasks to support the finance team, including payments, expense claims, and bank reconciliations. The position suits a candidate with a solid understanding of accounting practices and good organizational skills, who can work both independently and as part of a team.
Responsibilities
- Handle office and matter payments, expense claims, staff reimbursement, corporate card, and travel agent transactions
- Perform various banking tasks, including cashing cheques, collecting bank cheques, and arranging telegraphic transfers
- Handle daily bank reconciliations and other ad hoc reports
- Perform necessary administrative and processing tasks
- Participate in and contribute to team initiatives to ensure team effectiveness is maximized
- Provide assistance to other members of the team to help achieve team goals
- Undertake other duties as requested by supervisors
Requirements
- Solid knowledge of accounting standards and practices in a professional practice
- 1-2 years of experience and knowledge of the services provided by the Finance team
- Sound knowledge of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, and web searching
- Good organizing and analytical skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Ability to develop good client relationships and communicate effectively with lawyers and secretaries, both verbally and in writing
- Experience in using the firm's accounting software - Elite 3E would be an advantage
Important Details
- Key Relationships: Productive working relationships must be developed and maintained with the Business Analysis, Matter Support, Accounts Payable, and Statutory Accounting teams in Finance nationally; internal clients including Partners, Shared Services Managers, and staff
