Buckingham Search is thrilled to be helping one of our favorite downtown clients hire a Staff Accountant that will be tasked with supporting multiple accounting functions throughout their professional services firm.

This client boasts a beautiful office a short walk from Millennium Park, they promise 35 hour work weeks to their accounting team, and their benefits include both a 401k and pension… and the people there are the friendliest in the industry! This is a team that loves the work they do and they have fun doing it!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complete billing maintenance requests including time and cost transfers, bill reversals, write offs and client matter maintenance updates.
• Manage personal accounts by processing payments made to internal accounts and responding to inquiries regarding statements; maintain awareness of account balances, work with employees to clear outstanding balances and escalate delinquent accounts to management.
• Assist with the application of client payments by entering receivables into the Elite billing system on the day of deposit.
• Complete data integrity projects as needed which include clean-up and maintenance of data in the Elite billing system.
• Monitor the Firm’s audit inquiry requests and generate audit reports
• Other responsibilities include assisting the Client Accounting supervisor and manager, as needed and performing other related duties, as assigned.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s level degree
• Data entry skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

 

To get more information about this client and role, please apply!

Posted On: Friday, July 2, 2021