ACCOUNTING CLERK FOR LAW FIRM Job at Hayt, Hayt & Landau in Miami

Accounting Clerk

Hayt Hayt & Landau is a law firm and a debt collector with over 25 years of experience specializing in debt collection matters. Our offices are located in both Florida and Georgia, representing major banking and financial institutions, as well as national debt purchasing companies.

We are currently hiring an accounting clerk to work alongside our accounting manager in processing payments and handling documents. Your goal will be to perform the job with little to no errors, learn quickly, and handle a large volume of accounting and legal documents in an appropriate amount of time. Our Bookkeeping clerks handle the filing, document and payment processing, and data entry of payments of civil lawsuits related to debt collection. This position includes document management, mailing, copying, and scanning. Overall, Clerks are to performs basic accounting functions as needed for the department, in accordance with Company’s standards and procedures.

We are looking for a self starter with good time management skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Identify payments and bills by title and contents
• Enter legal data into our software system, Q-Law
• Process incoming and outgoing legal documents and communications
• Make numerous daily computations to update and maintain accounting records
• Compile data from cashiers to prepare bank deposits.
• Prepare reports and summaries.
• Prepare invoices for billing, including totaling numbers, adding dates, and verifying financial data.
• Verify balancing receipts.
• Send cash, checks, or other forms of payment to the bank.
• Post debits and credits.
• Post details of transactions, total accounts, and compute interest charges.
• Calculate expenditures.
• Use our software QLAW to input data into files and post payments.
• Background, Drug, Credit, and Fingerprint tests done prior to hiring

Skills

• Well-organized, with sharp attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure
• Strong communication and literacy skills
• Ability to learn quickly and ask the appropriate questions to learn the job to the best of your ability
• Office experience preferred but not required
• Quickbooks
• English. Bilingual is a plus.