Accounting Clerk

Job Description
Our client is an established law firm in Vancouver, is seeking a temporary Accounting Clerk. This is an operational, contract to provide vital support during an upcoming accounting system migration from Soluno to Cosmo Lex. The firm's internal accounting team is currently operating at capacity, and this temporary role is designed to handle routine-to-complex operational transactions and clerical functions to help manage the transition workload.

Reporting directly to the firm’s two internal accountants, the scope of the role is strictly operational. It focuses entirely on general operating expenses, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and heavy data migration support. This position explicitly excludes any involvement with trust accounting or trust disbursements.

The day-to-day functions will heavily depend on the candidate's level of experience and analytical capability:

Level One Support Focus:
Routine clerical tasks, heavy volume data entry, basic data verification, and following highly standardized accounting procedures.

Level Two Support Focus:
More complex data functions requiring judgment, analysis, and data manipulation between systems using Microsoft Excel.

Migration Specific Work:
Exporting financial information out of Soluno into Excel, manipulating and formatting the fields to ensure compatibility (such as transforming a single-line address into separate street name and number fields), and prepping the data for the accountants and outside conversion consultants to upload into Cosmo Lex.

Responsibilities

Input high-volume accounts payable, process vendor invoices, and accurately enter operational financial transactions under general instruction from the accountants.

Manipulate, sort, and clean accounting data exported from Soluno within Microsoft Excel to ensure compatibility with Cosmo Lex system requirements.

Perform meticulous data verification and data entry to ensure accuracy before and after system migration uploads.

Assist the accounting team with daily operational functions, which may include posting journal entries, reconciling operational reports, and generating operational payments.

Adhere strictly to the law firm’s rigorous internal data security, privacy, and confidentiality policies.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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Skills and Requirements

Experience:

2 to 5 years of dedicated bookkeeping, accounting, AR/AP experience.

Legal Industry Exposure:
Prior experience working within a law firm environment to ensure familiarity with legal billing files, multi-matter client file structures, standard legal transaction numbering systems, and operational files (e.g., litigation expenses, binding services, courier tracking).

Technical

Skills:

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, specifically for sorting and manipulating data fields.

System Knowledge:
Experience working with Cosmo Lex legal accounting platforms.

Core

Competency:

Demonstrated experience managing foundational accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) processes.

Post-secondary degree, diploma, or formal training program specializing in accounting or bookkeeping.

Exposure to or familiarity with Cosmo Lex and Soluno Accounting Systems.

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