Legal Admin. Assistant

Galleria area law firm is seeking a sharp, outgoing Administrative Assistant to join their firm.  Ideal candidate should be very detail oriented, be able to prioritize and have excellent people skills.

Job Requirements:

Draft, revise and distribute agendas and Minutes for Board of Directors meetings, including meeting deadlines for filing agendas at county clerk offices.  Make meeting arrangements both at the Firm and at outside locations; includes scheduling, canceling and rescheduling meetings, room reservations, audio/visual needs, working with caterers for food service and other special arrangements, contacting directors to ensure quorum will exist for Board of Directors meetings and follow up with legal assistant/attorney regarding same.  Maintain district files including archiving and retrieval of files from archives.  Revise, update and distribute district documents, receive and respond to requests for information and documents.  Be able to work independently and be very detail oriented.  Excellent communciation skills as you will be working closely with many directors, consultants, legal assistants and attorneys.

Code:  ST 3972

BOOKKEEPER/ACCOUNTANT

Restaurant located near downtown seeks an experienced bookkeeper/accountant to assist with payroll and payroll taxes, month end closing, sales analysis, accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations and postings to the general ledger.  Heavy emphasis on billing and POS.   Salary is negotiable.

Ideal candidate must possess the following:

• Advanced Excel, Word and Peachtree skills
• Be able to create spreadsheets in Excel
• Understand the restaurant business, especially the ins and outs of tips and credit card transactions

Code:  ST 1355

NEW!!!  STAFF ACCOUNTANT

The candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a general ledger capacity.  Strong communications skills and a drive to exceed expectation will be characteristics possessed by the successful candidate.  They will need to have strong Excel skills as well as have worked with an automated ledger application such as Microsoft Dynamics. 

Job Function:

• Responsible for the completion of financial statement review, analysis, account reconciliation, initial and corrective journal entries. Ensure accurate and timely completion of assigned tasks.

•  Participate in strategic planning sessions to develop and monitor processes and procedures ensuring timely detection of errors and accuracy of information released.

• Participate in testing and implementing group and company special projects.

• Identify, propose and implement process and or procedure changes to gain efficiencies, strengthen controls, or improve quality of information provided by the department.

• It is our intention that every staff member succeed.  In the event that performance is below expectation, informal counseling, formal counseling, and written notices are to be completed with the collaboration of the supervisor’s manager and the Human Resource Department  

Examples of specific duties:

• Review assigned locations during the monthly close process. (Contract Log to General Ledger variance, Merchandise Costs, Cash Advance,  Funeral Costs, General and Administrative, Facilities and Ground expenses, Salaries and Benefits and Other Income)

• Prepare monthly General Ledger upload for interest expense received from Treasury and review General Ledger for accuracy.

• Compile journal entries as needed during review. Work directly with field location processors and Managing Partners to resolve any issues or help location with question

• Prepare reports on the status of account reconciliations identifying proposed adjustments and processing errors.

• Complete assigned monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, –accounts reconciled may vary based on Manager assignment)

• Review assigned locations’ monthly. Assigned locations’ monthly inventory reconciliations of physical count to ledger. Working with locations to resolve issues and improve process.

• Assist in testing system upgrades or enhancements impacting functions used by Financial Reporting Group.

• Cross train and backup on process to run Hyperion Reports and publish monthly on Carriage’s website for Field and Corporate Access.

• Assist in implementing special projects as assigned.

CH:  4456