Staff Accountant

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Dinsmore is seeking a Staff Accountant to join our finance team. The Staff Accountant supports daily cash management, ledger activity, and treasury operations across the firm. This role is responsible for cash reporting, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, and month-end close support. The position maintains strong internal controls and ensures accuracy and timeliness of cash and banking transactions. The Staff Accountant works closely with Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Finance leadership to cash-driven processes.

The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-focused, and comfortable working with financial data, reconciliations and general ledger activity.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review daily cash reports and monitor bank activity
• Perform/review various reconciliations including bank reconciliations, remote stipend, and other recurring employee allowances
• Managing Bank Signers and issuing firm credit cards
• Assist with bank transfers, payroll funding, and returned ACH/wire exceptions
• Prepare journal entries and month end close validations (depreciation, penalties, fees, contract, recurring, quarterly tax, etc.)
• Assist with PAC requests, issuing checks, performing PAC reconciliation and journal entries
• Manage/review the payments of Independent Contractors
• Support AP processes including retired partner payments, monthly rents, and expense workflows
• Assist with reviewing/approving Partner reimbursement and ensuring overages are managed
• Contribute to monthly and quarterly reporting, including various administrative and legal department reports
• Monitor and fix any out of balance leger balances in financial accounting system
• Assist with potential merger data validation and capital reconciliations
• Maintain documentation and support cross-training across treasury and finance functions
• Support unclaimed funds due diligence, stale check monitoring and other compliance activities
• Ensure treasury activities adhere to strong internal controls and compliance.
• Work collaboratively with AP, Payroll, Finance, and HR to ensure accuracy of cash-related activities
• Participate in process improvement and automation initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field
• 2 - 5 years of relevant work experience

• Working knowledge of ACH, wires, checks, and positive pay processes
• Experience investigating and resolving returned ACH, rejected wires, and bank exceptions
• Proficiency with bank reconciliations
• Advanced Excel skills, including lookups and pivots
• Strong written and verbal communication
• High attention to detail with the ability to identify anomalies and investigate root causes
• Ability to manage sensitive financial access and information with discretion and professionalism
• Proven ability to work independently, manage deadlines, and operate in a fast-paced environment

Equal Opportunity Employer