Brilliant Financial Staffing has been engaged in a search for an Accounting Generalist with our client located in Mundelein, IL. Our client is a well-established organization in the legal industry. They recently have experienced a recent resignation on the team and are experiencing growth in the team to add an Accounting Generalist. The Accounting Generalist would be primarily responsible for handling the AP, billing, refunds, and cash applications tasks. This Accounting Generalist will be hired on a contract-to-hire basis and be available to start ASAP.
Accounting Generalist Responsibilities:
Billing:
- Assist the billing manager with 1 billing cycle which is their mid-month cycle
- Communicate with the attorneys and other people who create the billing entries
- Post bills and issue to clients as appropriate for the type of bill and type of client
- Handle billing issues, including revising, reissuing, unposting, refunding, and applying prepaid and/or Trust amount
Cash Applications/AP/Refunding:
- Types of payments include physical checks, ACH, and credit cards
- Physical Checks - All the checks will come in stacks of envelopes that will need to be opened and sorted accordingly. Once sorted, they will be checking the checks for specific criteria (ex: invoice number on checks, department, etc..) Then they will batch the physical checks to enter the system.
- Payments will need to be matched with the bank and client transactions
- Handle the deposit piece (last process in handling the checks) they will use a remote scanning machine to scan the checks into the bank account
- Light AP and refunding
Accounting Generalist Qualifications:
- Systems/ERP/GL: Juris ERP – common law firm system, can train
- MUST be fully vaccinated
- Excel: More experience the better – not required
- Law firm experience is a plus
- 3+ years of accounting experience
- Multi-tasking skills
If you or anybody that you know is qualified and interested, please apply ASAP!