Job Description

The Opportunity: Staff Accountant 💎

Send resumes to: Hayley.christina@capstonesp.com

Position Overview

Bring your analytical strengths, financial expertise, and commitment to excellence to a role where your work helps inform business decisions. Our law firm client is seeking a Staff Accountant who combines technical proficiency with intellectual curiosity and a proactive approach. Reporting directly to the Accounting Director, this professional will contribute to accurate financial reporting, thoughtful forecasting, and the financial discipline that supports the firm’s operations. This opportunity is well suited to an accounting professional who enjoys looking beyond the numbers—understanding what drives results, identifying opportunities for improvement, and translating financial information into meaningful insight. Prior law firm experience is a plus, but is not required.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This role offers broad exposure across core accounting functions, direct collaboration with the Accounting Director, and the opportunity to connect precise financial execution with broader business performance. For an accomplished accounting professional who values both technical rigor and meaningful contribution, it is an opportunity to make a visible impact within a professional services environment.

Your Impact

• Execute month-end closings: Prepare journal entries, accruals, and supporting schedules to ensure timely, accurate financial results.
• Deliver meaningful financial reporting: Prepare financial statements and management reports, helping leadership understand performance, trends, and variances.
• Support forecasting and planning: Contribute to financial forecasts and budgets, evaluate assumptions, and monitor actual results against expectations.
• Provide insightful financial analysis: Investigate variances, assess revenue and expense trends, and communicate findings that support informed business decisions.
• Maintain accurate reconciliations: Complete bank and balance sheet account reconciliations, research discrepancies, and resolve outstanding items.
• Protect General Ledger integrity: Prepare and review General Ledger entries, ensure appropriate account classifications, and maintain thorough supporting documentation.
• Support audits: Prepare audit schedules, coordinate requested documentation, and assist with responses to auditor inquiries.
• Uphold compliance and internal controls: Follow applicable accounting standards and firm policies, maintain reliable documentation, and help identify and strengthen control procedures.
• Improve accounting processes: Partner with the Accounting Director to streamline workflows, enhance reporting, and increase accuracy and efficiency.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated accounting experience encompassing month-end closings, financial reporting, forecasting, financial analysis, reconciliations, General Ledger entries, audits, compliance, and internal controls.
• A strong understanding of accounting principles and how day-to-day transactions flow through financial statements.
• Strong Excel skills and proficiency with accounting software.
• Exceptional attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• The organizational discipline to manage competing priorities and meet recurring deadlines.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain financial information effectively.
• A high degree of discretion and professionalism when handling confidential financial information.
• An ownership mindset, a collaborative approach, and a desire to continually improve the quality of your work.
• Law firm accounting experience is welcome, but professionals from other industries are encouraged to apply.