Job Title
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Liaise with various individuals firmwide in preparation for lateral partners to join the Firm; prepare lateral partner onboarding materials and compensation memo.
- Assist in monitoring compliance with funding initial capital requirements. Provide monthly reports on status of open capital funding arrangements.
- Create senior counsel and partner specific documents from a document compiler software, (HotDocs).
- Process monthly senior counsel payroll to ensure timely and confidential payments to senior counsel throughout the Firm.
- Prepare and distribute monthly senior counsel payroll reconciliations and monthly senior counsel reports; including senior counsel fact sheets for the Executive Director.
- Maintain database and tracking schedules for departing partners and senior counsel, including agreement execution dates and payment deadlines.
- Prepare and distribute various weekly and monthly statistical reports.
- Reconcile and analyze general ledger and payroll transactions for partners and senior counsel.
- Maintain data and prepare reports from the Firm's financial systems.
- Maintain schedule for processing special payments to new lateral partners.
- Prepare capital account analysis for separating partners including calculating estimates for tax and retirement changes; generate reports from the Firm's general ledger system.
- Process confidential payments to departing and transitioning partners throughout the Firm's global locations.
- Maintain data in the Partner Dashboard, Partner Life Cycle and the Partner Notes modules within the Partner Accounting system.
- Cultivate effective communication with colleagues across departments.
- Develop understanding of all roles in the department and provide support as needed, including using various proprietary and over the counter software.
- Provide high quality and consistent customer service.
- Special projects, as required.
- Other duties, as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's Degree
- 2+ years of accounting, financial analysis or business experience
NICE TO HAVES
- Strong experience with reconciliations
- Demonstrated technical and analytical skills within background
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Professional services or law firm experience