Bizjet Law - Senior Staff Accountant

• State/Province National Capital Region (Manila)
• Country USA

Client is seeking a detail-oriented, execution-focused Senior Staff Accountant to own the firm's day-to-day financial operations and full monthly close cycle. This role is the operational backbone of the finance function, managing bookkeeping, bank and credit card reconciliations, accounts receivable collections, accounts payable processing, and contractor pay calculations across the firm and affiliated companies.

This role requires someone who takes complete ownership of transactional accuracy and close cycle integrity, operates with discipline under recurring deadlines, and proactively identifies and resolves discrepancies before they compound. The ideal candidate finds genuine satisfaction in clean books, tight reconciliations, and a close that runs on schedule, understanding that precision in this role directly enables the firm's financial reporting and strategic decision-making.

Proficiency in Quick Books Online is not optional as this is the operational system this role lives in daily.

Core Responsibilities

Bookkeeping & Reconciliations

Maintain accurate general ledger entries on a daily basis, including bank feed clearing and transaction coding.

Prepare and post month-end and quarter-end journal entries on a fixed recurring schedule.

Record intercompany and adjusting journal entries on an adhoc basis as required across the firm and affiliated entities.

Reconcile bank and credit card accounts in alignment with statement dates.

Perform monthly reconciliations, ensuring financials and data are accurately captured, documented, and reconcile to records.

Support trust account reconciliations as needed, with the potential to take full ownership of trust accounting over time as reliability and familiarity with firm protocols are demonstrated.

Accounts Receivable & Collections

Monitor and manage AR collections on a daily and weekly basis, proactively following up on outstanding client balances.

Conduct monthly AR aging reviews, ensuring the aging schedule is current and accurate.

Identify, document, and process credit memo and client-driven discount adjustments monthly, coordinating with the Finance Associate where data feeds into downstream reporting.

Accounts Payable & Payroll Support

Process vendor invoices on a bi-weekly cycle, ensuring accurate coding, supporting documentation, and compliance with internal controls.

Calculate contractor pay on a recurring bi-weekly basis, applying correct rate structures and reconciling amounts to supporting agreements.

Process recurring expense payments on a fixed monthly schedule.

Support payroll processing coordination, including validation of hours and proper application of U.S. payroll tax rules and deadlines, with the potential to take full responsibility for payroll administration over time as skills and reliability are demonstrated.

Monthly Close & Financial Review

Own the end-to-end monthly close cycle, ensuring all journal entries, reconciliations, invoice adjustments, and AR clean-up tasks are completed on schedule.

Ensure compliance with internal controls and reporting standards throughout the close cycle and in all financial documentation.

Prepare and deliver the monthly financial review to the CFO as the formal close sign-off, serving as the gate for downstream financial analysis.

Proactively surface discrepancies, timing issues, or data irregularities to the CFO before the close is finalized.

Support the annual financials review, organizing and reconciling year-end records for CFO sign-off.

Coordinate the annual tax return review, reconciling draft tax returns against internal financials and liaising with external CPAs under CFO direction.

Process Improvement & Team Support

Actively collaborate with operations, administrative, and legal teams to support finance-related workflows across the full transaction cycle.

Collaborate with the Finance Associate to ensure clean and timely data handoffs.

Identify inefficiencies in recurring transactional and reconciliation workflows and propose practical improvements.

Use approved AI and automation tools to reduce manual work and improve accuracy in bookkeeping and reconciliation tasks, in compliance with firm data policies.

Success Profile

Ownership-driven - takes complete responsibility for the accuracy and timeliness of the close cycle without requiring daily oversight

Execution-focused - finds precision and reliability in recurring, deadline-driven work genuinely satisfying, not…