Senior Staff Accountant

Senior Staff Accountant Miami FL

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Seeking a Senior Staff Accountant to join the Finance team in the Miami office. This role supports the firm’s day-to-day financial operations while contributing to process improvements, compliance, and scalable 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.
• Contribute to developing and implementing internal controls to safeguard financial assets.
• Maintain, analyze, and update general ledger entries.
• Assist in posting transactions to the general ledger.
• Perform general ledger account reviews and reconciliations, including identifying, investigating, and resolving misclassifications or errors.
• 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.
• Monitor tax deadlines, maintain compliance calendars, and ensure timely filing and documentation.
• 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.
• Assist with the annual budgeting process.
• 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.
• Lead and manage the unclaimed property process, reviewing financial reports to identify outstanding checks and escheating items to the state.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• 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)
• Adaptability to new technology
• High attention to detail, ability to self-review, and commitment to accuracy
• Demonstrated ability to adopt and apply technology to improve accounting processes
• Strong ability to work within teams and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter willing to drive initiatives and contribute ideas for continuous improvement.
  
  Excellent organization skills, acute attention to detail, and ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced and time-sensitive environment
• Strong business/professional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Analytical problem-solving skills

• An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully: typing/using a keyboard and writing by hand.
• The employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.