Senior Accountant

Grow with us! We are featured in Inc. Magazine's prestigious 2023 Inc. 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List and are the 25th fastest-growing private company in the entire state of Louisiana!

Do you find satisfaction in helping people and making a difference in their lives and the lives of their communities? Laborde Earles is committed to providing quality representation to our clients and being fully attentive to their needs, which starts by providing the same favorable environment for our team members. Join us in standing up for our clients, with our community, by our work, and beside each other!

The Opportunity

Expanding Personal Injury Law Firm has an immediate opening for a Senior Accountant in our Lafayette, Louisiana office. The Senior Accountant will work closely with our Director of Finance to provide financial and administrative support to our firm and clients. This role requires strong interpersonal skills where professionalism, confidentiality, and integrity are showcased. A successful candidate for the role will be team and detail-oriented. Success in this role will also require the ability to multi-task and be solution driven to ensure accurate and timely processing of all matters and extraordinary service to our clients.

Objective

Provide financial, administrative, and client support to the firm by accurately maintaining client financial records, processing complex client trust account transactions, assisting with monthly financial reporting, and ensuring compliance with accounting and regulatory requirements.

Desired Outcomes

1. Accountable for accurately maintaining client financial records within accounting and legal software systems.

   • Collaborate with paralegals to reconcile client financial records with legal software systems.

     • Record charges related to medical transportation.

     • Record and reconcile daily medical record charges, including processing of voids and credit adjustments.

     • Process medical provider and court cost refunds.

   • Prepare and post journal entries to record approved bad debt write offs.

   • Record voided checks in accounting software and reconcile entries in legal software.

   • Manage client Lines of Credit (LOC), ensuring accurate posting of principal payments and balance payoffs.

   • Ensure all client trust accounts are brought to a zero balance after settlement and properly record all settlement details in legal software.

2. Accountable for timely and accurate reporting of monthly financial statements and supplemental reports.

   • Assist in the preparation and review of monthly financial statements and firm-wide reporting packages.

   • Prepare and post journal entries to provide accurate month-end and year-end closes.

   • Perform general ledger account reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data.

   • Conduct financial analysis to identify trends, variances, and areas of concern or opportunity.

   • Generate and review key performance indicator (KPI) reports to support operational and financial decision-making.

   • Ensure accuracy and completeness of all supplemental financial reports provided to department managers.

3. Miscellaneous

   • Maintain and process transactions for other Partner entities (LE Holdings).

   • Provide support and assistance to accounting team and leadership with routine tasks and projects.

Skills/Abilities

• High attention to detail with strong organizational and analytical skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft products including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

• Ability to perform account reconciliations, journal entries, and financial analysis independently.

• Familiarity with KPI reporting and performance metric tracking.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with attorneys, paralegals, and administrative staff.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.

• Integrity and professionalism in handling confidential and sensitive financial information.

• Ability to work in a team environment.

• Willingness to perform any/all tasks as assigned by handling attorney, supervisor and/or firm leadership in support of the firm’s growth and success.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.

• Minimum 3-5 years of accounting experience.

• Experience processing and reconciling transactions.

• Proficiency in Accounting Software (NetSuite preferred).

• Prior experience within a law firm or professional services environment preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

The Perks of Being Part of Our Laborde Earles Community

• Optional companywide events allowing you to play as hard as you work, such as Crawfish Boils, Christmas parties, Retreats, and more!

• Work-life balance is encouraged as we consider 36.5 hours your full-time requirement and we rarely exceed a 40-hour workweek. We prefer you work to live, not live to work.

• We celebrate life's little (& big) moments with you from birthdays & work anniversaries to marriages and births, as well as, support you when the going gets tough from procedures/hospitalizations to loss of a loved one.

• Collaboration and team member rapport is cheered and emboldened.

• We offer many competitive benefits upon eligibility waiting periods:

  • Company-paid Short-term disability & Life/AD&D;

  • Health, vision, dental, long-term disability, critical illness, and additional life insurance policies upon eligibility waiting periods;

  • 401(k) upon eligibility waiting periods;

  • PTO, paid holidays (10), and paid maternity leave;

  • Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), including dependent care;

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Who We Are

We are a team and community-oriented personal injury law firm dedicated to winning for our clients who have had their lives turned upside down from injuries through no fault of their own. With multiple offices across Louisiana, we focus on ensuring people get maximum monetary compensation for various types of personal injuries or loss of a loved one from incidents like car wrecks, truck accidents, offshore, and workplace injuries. Our founders joined forces to build the premier law firm in Louisiana. With over 250 years of combined experience, our attorneys have earned a powerful reputation and have been nationally recognized as top trial lawyers. As a dedicated and high-performing team, we pride ourselves in our core values: All In, Work Hard, Play Hard, Honorable, Cutting Edge, Community, and Winners, Not Whiners. With all the proper tools in place, our mission is to stand up for our clients, stand with our community, stand by our work, and stand beside each other. You may begin your journey with Laborde Earles for many different reasons, but you stay for the team.

Our Core Values

All In: Being fully committed to a task or endeavor. Giving 110% for the team and our common goals.

Work Hard, Play Hard: Emphasizing work life balance. Putting in the hard work for the clients that depend on us as well as turning work-mode off sometimes to add fun, laughter, and relaxation into our routines.

Honorable: Making moral and just decisions, having an ownership mentality, being reputable and respectable through your work product, client and teammate interactions, and personal and family life.

Cutting Edge: Having the most advanced or newest version of a product or service, ensuring that we are functioning at our highest capacity as a firm, both effective and efficient.

Community: Being a pillar for the surrounding area and the people within by rallying for and supporting them through giving back and volunteering. Supporting the constant growth and improvement of ourselves and each other.

Winners, Not Whiners: Being a team-player even when the going gets tough to support the goals of our team and the firm, maintaining a positive outlook through the day-to-day challenges and setbacks, celebrating the wins and successes, being willing to step in and help for the sake of the common goals we strive to achieve.