Legal Accounting Specialist – LATAM

🕒 August 5

🌐 Honduras, El Salvador, +4 more countries – Remote

🇭🇳 Honduras – Remote 🇸🇻 El Salvador – Remote 🇬🇹 Guatemala – Remote 🇳🇮 Nicaragua – Remote 🇪🇨 Ecuador – Remote 🇧🇴 Bolivia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Accounting Manager

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HireHawk is a recruitment service that specializes in building fully vetted global teams for companies, significantly reducing hiring costs by up to 80%. They provide a comprehensive solution encompassing planning, sourcing, vetting, hiring, payroll management, and compliance, all designed to streamline the hiring process. HireHawk also focuses on optimizing the candidate experience with extensive screening, rapid sourcing, and competitive compensation packages, ensuring that every hire meets the specific needs of their clients.

📋 Description

• Maintain complete and accurate financial records across the firm’s IOLTA trust accounts and business operating accounts. • Protect client funds by processing trust transactions carefully and keeping IOLTA records current, accurate, and fully traceable. • Reconcile bank, trust, operating, and accounting records, investigating and resolving discrepancies promptly. • Process deposits, disbursements, transfers, invoices, expenses, and other financial transactions with close attention to supporting documentation. • Keep QuickBooks organized and up to date. • Prepare recurring financial, reconciliation, and transaction reports using QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel. • Support month-end accounting activities by reviewing balances, organizing records, and completing required reconciliations. • Communicate with legal and operational team members when information, approvals, or corrections are needed. • Identify unusual activity, missing documentation, or potential accounting issues and raise them proactively. • Maintain strict confidentiality when handling client funds, financial records, settlement-related information, and internal business data.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or completed accounting coursework. • Previous hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience within a U.S. law firm. • Demonstrated experience managing both IOLTA trust accounts and business operating accounts. • Advanced QuickBooks proficiency, including the ability to work efficiently with transactions, reconciliations, reports, and account records. • Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, reconciliations, data organization, and financial reporting. • Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish, with clear written and verbal communication skills. • Strong accounting fundamentals. • Ability to learn new workflows quickly, manage competing priorities, work independently, and maintain accuracy and confidentiality in a busy legal environment. • Nice to have: Accounting experience within a personal injury law firm. • Nice to have: Experience supporting month-end closing activities for a legal practice. • Nice to have: Familiarity with settlement-related transactions, client ledgers, or personal injury case accounting. • Nice to have: Experience improving bookkeeping, reconciliation, or financial reporting processes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Access to a $200K+ perk marketplace with discounts on 150+ global services. • Option to withdraw up to 50% of approved earnings before payday.

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