At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage legal bookkeeping, reconcile accounts, and resolve discrepancies using top software.
- Company: Specialist bookkeeping service focused on the legal sector.
- Benefits: Flexible hours, supportive environment, and opportunities for skill development.
- Other info: Great chance to grow your career in a friendly, professional setting.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact in the legal industry.
- Qualifications: 3+ years bookkeeping experience and knowledge of MYOB and Xero.
The predicted salary is between 53208 - 65032 $ per year.
We provide specialist bookkeeping services to the legal sector, working across the major Law Society-approved practice management platforms - LEAP, Smokeball, Actionstep and Clio. We're looking for an experienced Legal Bookkeeper to join us. Hours are flexible: the role can be structured as part-time, full-time or casual, with scope to grow as your skills and availability allow.
What you'll do:
- Reconcile Statutory Trust Accounts using legal practice management software
- Investigate and resolve trust account discrepancies, tracing entries to their source and correcting them in line with trust accounting requirements
- Investigate software integration issues between practice management platforms and accounting systems (e.g. data sync errors, mismatched or missing transactions), and work to resolve them
- Reconcile office bank accounts and credit cards
- Manage payroll and superannuation
- Prepare Business Activity Statements (BAS)
- Handle ad hoc accounting duties as they arise
What you'll bring:
- A minimum of 3 years' bookkeeping experience
- Hands-on experience reconciling Statutory Trust Accounts in one or more Australian legal practice management systems
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve trust account discrepancies
- Experience troubleshooting software integration issues between legal practice management software and accounting systems
- Solid experience processing payroll and superannuation, including compliance with relevant obligations
- Solid working knowledge of both MYOB and Xero (essential)
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Clear, friendly communication and the ability to engage with clients professionally
You will work in a supportive environment with genuine opportunity to develop your skills and take on more responsibility over time.
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