Accounting Assistant/AP - Lafayette, LA

United States·Lafayette

OtherAccounting Assistant

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Overview

Grow with us! We are featured in Inc. Magazine's prestigious 2023 Inc. 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List and are the 25th fastest-growing private company in the entire state of Louisiana!

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OtherAccounting Assistant

Responsibilities

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Assemble, review, verify, and code invoices and credit card receipts.
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Flag and clarify any unusual or questionable invoice items or prices.
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Enter invoice or credit card receipt transaction into accounting software.
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Prepare and perform check runs after receiving approvals.
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Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
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Monitor statements to ensure payments are up to date.
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Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries.

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Review daily transaction activity.
Record all credit card receipt transactions.
Reconcile monthly statements.

Categorize credit card charges as either expenses (for expense management) or vendor bills (for accounts payable) to ensure proper tracking and payment matching.
Match recorded bills to credit card payments in accounting software to reconcile vendor obligations and support accurate financial records.
Review and approve monthly expense reports ensuring proper invoices are attached, correct expense coding, and adherence to month end deadlines.

Provide support and assistance to accounting team and leadership with routine tasks and projects.

Organizing and prioritizing
Attention to detail and accuracy
Confidentiality and strong judgment
Problem analysis and problem-solving
Teamwork
Willingness to perform any/all tasks as assigned by Handling Attorney, Supervisor and/or Firm Leadership in support of the firm’s growth and success

Proficient in data entry and management
1-3 years accounts payable or general accounting experience
Knowledge of accounts payable preferred

Requirements

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Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

What We Offer

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✓Optional companywide events allowing you to play as hard as you work, such as Crawfish Boils, Christmas parties, Retreats, and more!

✓Work-life balance is encouraged as we consider 36.5 hours your full-time requirement and we rarely exceed a 40-hour workweek. We prefer you work to live, not live to work.

✓We celebrate life's little (& big) moments with you from birthdays & work anniversaries to marriages and births, as well as, support you when the going gets tough from procedures/hospitalizations to loss of a loved one.

✓Collaboration and team member rapport is cheered and emboldened.

✓We offer many competitive benefits upon eligibility waiting periods:Company-paid Short-term disability & Life/AD&D;

✓Health, vision, dental, long-term disability, critical illness, and additional life insurance policies upon eligibility waiting periods;

✓401(k) upon eligibility waiting periods;

✓PTO, paid holidays (10), and paid maternity leave;

✓Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), including dependent care;

✓Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

We are a team and community-oriented personal injury law firm dedicated to winning for our clients who have had their lives turned upside down from injuries through no fault of their own. With multiple offices across Louisiana, we focus on ensuring people get maximum monetary compensation for various types of personal injuries or loss of a loved one from incidents like car wrecks, truck accidents, offshore, and workplace injuries. Our founders joined forces to build the premier law firm in Louisiana. With over 250 years of combined experience, our attorneys have earned a powerful reputation and have been nationally recognized as top trial lawyers. As a dedicated and high-performing team, we pride ourselves in our core values: All In, Work Hard, Play Hard, Honorable, Cutting Edge, Community, and Winners, Not Whiners. With all the proper tools in place, our mission is to stand up for our clients, stand with our community, stand by our work, and stand beside each other. You may begin your journey with Laborde Earles for many different reasons, but you stay for the team.

All In: Being fully committed to a task or endeavor. Giving 110% for the team and our common goals.

Work Hard, Play Hard: Emphasizing work life balance. Putting in the hard work for the clients that depend on us as well as turning work-mode off sometimes to add fun, laughter, and relaxation into our routines.

Honorable: Making moral and just decisions, having an ownership mentality, being reputable and respectable through your work product, client and teammate interactions, and personal and family life.

Cutting Edge: Having the most advanced or newest version of a product or service, ensuring that we are functioning at our highest capacity as a firm, both effective and efficient.

Community: Being a pillar for the surrounding area and the people within by rallying for and supporting them through giving back and volunteering. Supporting the constant growth and improvement of ourselves and each other.

Winners, Not Whiners: Being a team-player even when the going gets tough to support the goals of our team and the firm, maintaining a positive outlook through the day-to-day challenges and setbacks, celebrating the wins and successes, being willing to step in and help for the sake of the common goals we strive to achieve.