Senior Staff Accountant

A Wiss legal services client is seeking a Senior Staff Accountant to join their team (fully onsite) in Miami, Florida. This is an outstanding opportunity to support the day-day financial operations for this firm while contributing to process improvements, compliance, and financial reporting.

• Assist the Director of Finance with preparing financial statements, reports, and analysis monthly.
• Reconcile bank statements, credit card statements, and other financial accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Assist with month-end and year-end closing processes, including preparing and adjusting journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Responsible for processing accounts payable entry activities.
• Reviewing, Printing, and releasing check payments and working with Accounts Payable to process payments to vendors.
• Maintain, analyze, and update general ledger entries.
• Assist in posting transactions to the general ledger
• Maintain and update the General Ledger Chart of Accounts.
• Assist with month-end and year-end closings, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and account analysis.
• Maintain and reconcile the fixed asset subledger, including recording additions, disposals, monthly depreciation, and supporting fixed asset tax reporting and compliance.
• Coordinate and prepare state and local tax filings, including business license taxes, sales and use taxes, and property tax filings across multiple jurisdictions.
• Support external tax advisors during annual tax return preparation and review of financial statements.
• Reconcile and ensure compliance for trust/IOLTA accounts.
• Prepare financial reports and assist with responses to audits, surveys, and tax filings.
• Assist in reviewing and developing SOPs and process workflows for automation, efficiency, standardization, and consistency.
• Provide ad hoc reporting (including tax reporting), analysis, and special projects.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to leverage technology, automation, and AI tools to improve finance analysis, reporting, workflows, and compliance processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience
• Preferred experience working as an Accountant in a medium to large law firm (50+ lawyers a plus)
• Strong working knowledge of general ledger, reconciliations, depreciation, and amortizations
• Substantial work experience in the required essential accounting deliverables
• Proven experience with accounting principles, tax reporting, and trust accounting
• Proficiency in legal-specific accounting software such as Aderant is preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills required (e.g., VLOOKUPs, XLOOKUPs, SUMIFS, pivot tables, data analysis)

Salary is up to $100k, annually.

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