Job description
Overview:
If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are achievement, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Finance - Operations Department in our Chicago office as an Operations Staff Accountant.
Tactical
Professional Experience:
Technical Skills:
Performance Traits:
Physical Requirements:
The above is a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.
The Firm may modify and amend this job description at any time at its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.
We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including medical/dental/vision/life/and AD&D insurance, 401 (k) savings plan, back-up childcare and eldercare, generous paid time off (PTO), as well as opportunities for professional development and growth. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Mayer Brown LLP is a leading global law firm with offices in 27 key business centers across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. We are a collegial, collaborative, and diverse firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential.
If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are achievement, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Finance - Operations Department in our Chicago office as an Operations Staff Accountant.
The Operations Staff Accountant supports the U.S. Accounts Payable Manager in ensuring sustained excellence in the U.S. Accounts Payable department’s operations and providing exemplary service to the department’s customer base.
Key responsibilities include developing and tracking departmental metrics, administering select processes, reconciling financial activity, resolving problems and discrepancies, supporting departmental strategies and assisting with daily activities.
Responsibilities:
General
- Executes assigned daily, monthly and other responsibilities in support of the A/P function
- Ensures exemplary service to attorneys, Firm practices and administrative colleagues
- Develops sophisticated methods to track departmental metrics and report on activities
- Administers select departmental processes
- Develops solutions to ensure effectiveness of departmental processes
- Performs various complex reconciliations; resolves discrepancies
- Assists in automating departmental processes and activities
- Supports Accounts Payable Manager with departmental strategies
- Assists with daily accounts payable operations
- Leads or assists with departmental projects and other tasks as assigned
Tactical
- Develops comprehensive expertise on the department’s financial systems
- Is on the cutting edge of industry technologies and innovations
Education/Training/Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field strongly preferred, an equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when experience is directly related to the needs and expectations of the role
Professional Experience:
- Three years+ accounting and/or analysis experience, strongly preferred
- Experience in accounts payable or financial operations, strongly preferred
- Experience in legal or other professional services environment, preferred
- Savvy business sense and acumen, required
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to mine, analyze and interpret data, required
- Exceptional accounting skills, including general ledger, reconciliations and complex spreadsheets, required
- Advanced Microsoft Suite expertise (including Excel, Word, Outlook) required
- Strong knowledge of financial software, tables and infrastructure, strongly preferred
- Knowledge of accounts payable operations and systems, preferred
Performance Traits:
- Sophisticated business presence
- Sharp critical thinking and analytical skills
- Innate customer service orientation and commitment to excellence
- Tenacious problem solving and follow through capabilities
- Polished and engaging communication skills
- Inherently self-reflective, collaborative, team-oriented
- Keen ability to identify needs and creatively conceive solutions
- Skilled and tenacious at solving problems
- Technologically savvy
- Proactive, innovative, self-starting orientation
- Inherently self-reflective, collaborative, growth oriented
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Committed to meeting deadlines
- Ability to work independently
Physical Requirements:
- May require occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.
- May require travel to other offices as needed
The above is a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.
The Firm may modify and amend this job description at any time at its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.
We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including medical/dental/vision/life/and AD&D insurance, 401 (k) savings plan, back-up childcare and eldercare, generous paid time off (PTO), as well as opportunities for professional development and growth. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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