Senior Accountant - Boston MA/Leading Law Firm

Senior Accountant - Boston MA - Law Firm

Our team is working with a leading law firm based in Boston looking to hire a Senior Accountant to their growing team. The Senior Accountant is responsible for managing the firm’s day-to-day accounting operations while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strong internal controls across all financial activities. This role oversees cash management, accounts payable, general ledger activity, payroll and partner-related accounting, and month-end close processes, including complex reconciliations and journal entries. The Senior Accountant plays a key role in reviewing and approving payments, maintaining accounting policies and documentation, improving processes and systems, and supporting audits, tax filings, and regulatory reporting. Working closely with the Finance Director & Payroll team, this position also mentors junior staff and contributes to special projects that support the firm’s overall financial integrity and operational efficiency.

This role is a full time in office position that will offer between 100-120K base, bonus, & excellent benefits. If you are interested in this opportunity, please reach out to Vincenzo Kulturides directly at vkulturides@daleyaa.com

RESPONSIBILITIES:.

• Evaluate current accounting processes and identify opportunities for improvements and efficiency gains.

• Develop and recommend enhanced workflows, tools, or procedures to strengthen accuracy, timelessness, and compliance.

• Ensures the operation of all automated systems and forms for handling timekeeping, billing, bookkeeping, and related matters are in place.

• Assists in mentoring and reviewing the work of the junior and staff accountants.

• Monitor daily cash while communicating account balances to Finance Director.

• Maintain an updated AP payment Calendar.

• Review and clean the fixed assets list from the city of Boston and make sure that disposed assets are cleared of the list.

• Enters and follows up on all monthly, quarterly, and annual journal entries, including but not limited to intercompany invoices and payments, depreciation, defined contribution etc.

• Prepares month-end reconciliations of all firm bank accounts related to payroll, operating, Money Market, IOLTA, and other non-trust client funds. Follow up and correct all variances and outstanding checks. Reconciliation Reports should be prepared and saved in both Excel and PDF formats at the end of every month.

• Reconciles IOLTA/ESCROW bank accounts. Ensure that abandoned property is being communicated with the related attorneys and the State and Federal laws are being followed.

• Reviews the GL entries on a weekly basis and make the necessary corrections where needed. All expenses should be entered in their correct GL and the financial tax reporting is followed. If New GL accounts need to opened, it should be communicated with the Director of Finance.

• Processes partner’s draws and distributions and maintains partner distribution records including payment of all benefits & deductions.

• Prepares filings for firm’s property tax, sales and use tax, abandoned property and year end 1099’s.

• Supporting internal and external audits and assists in the preparation of the documents and files for the year end external audit.

• Assist in entering the year end budget amounts from AFS to the Practice management system.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or equivalent.

• 4+ years of progressively responsible related work experience in a professional services firm.

• Proficiency in Elite 3E is strongly preferred

• Strong knowledge of GAAP, budgeting, and financial analysis
  
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