Accounting Assistant/AP - Lafayette, LA

About the Role

Expanding Personal Injury Law Firm has an immediate opening for an Accounting Assistant- Accounts Payable role in our Lafayette, LA office. This role is ideal for a meticulous, team-oriented professional who demonstrates exceptional attention to detail, professionalism, and integrity. The Accounting Assistant is responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely processing of accounts payable transactions while maintaining the highest standards of financial accuracy and organization. Success in this position requires the ability to effectively prioritize competing responsibilities, manage multiple deadlines, and take a proactive, solution-oriented approach to resolving discrepancies and supporting the firm's day-to-day accounting operations.

Objective

Provide financial, administrative, and clerical support to the firm by efficiently maintaining and processing accounts payable transactions.

Desired Outcomes

• Accountable for timely and accurate processing of accounts payable transactions.
  • Assemble, review, verify, and code invoices and credit card receipts.
  • Flag and clarify any unusual or questionable invoice items or prices.
  • Enter invoice or credit card receipt transaction into accounting software.
  • Prepare and perform check runs after receiving approvals.
  • Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
  • Monitor statements to ensure payments are up to date.
  • Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries.
• Accountable for monthly credit card reconciliations.
  • Review daily transaction activity.
  • Record all credit card receipt transactions.
  • Reconcile monthly statements.
• Accountable for expense management review and approval.
  • 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.
• Miscellaneous
  • Provide support and assistance to accounting team and leadership with routine tasks and projects.

Skills/Abilities

• 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

Education and Experience

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

Physical Requirements

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

Benefits

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)

Who We Are

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.

Our Core Values

• 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.