Bookkeeper Trainee Jobs

Description

In this on-site position you’ll work part-time (at least 18 hours a week) at a legal services firm. You'll support a small bookkeeping and accounting team, scan documents, carry out bookkeeping tasks, document procedures, and help with many financial duties of operating a small business.

Benefits

• Support of the City’s Green Choice Renewable Energy Program
• Business casual dress
• Nearby restaurants, shops, museums, fast food, Target, and Starbucks next door
• Two weeks paid time off
• Ultra-filtered AC system
• Flexible work schedule
• Near UT and ACC, with a CapMetro stop for seven bus routes two blocks away (a 5-minute ride to UT) and ACC Rio Grande two and a half blocks away. (map)
• PPO type, employer-paid health insurance if at least 32 hours. Dental, vision, and life also available.
• Mac work computer
• Training in law-related and professional skills
• Cash bonuses for referring new employees

The workplace

Lawyer's Aid Service has about fifteen employees. Of the one-third who are part-time, most are students, and some go on to law school. Half have been here five years or more. It's an educated, friendly workforce.

Our workplace is a ground floor of eight offices with large windows. You'll be sharing an office with only 1-2 other people, but our staff moves between offices throughout the day, dependent upon tasks. We follow pandemic procedures when there’s a Covid alert. The atmosphere is positive and collaborative. An associated law office is six blocks away in West Campus.

Bookkeeper trainee tasks

• Scan order-related documents
• Reconcile credit-card and bank statements with internal records
• File time cards and check stubs
• Document bookkeeping procedures
• Perform check maintenance
• Post credit card payments and resolve credit card rejections

Your duties are likely to evolve as you gain experience. This is a long-term opportunity.

This position trains and gives experience in small business accounting and bookkeeping tasks and in working independently and with a team.

Hours

Your hours can be flexible between 8 am to 5:30 pm Mon-Fri.

Starting pay

$20 an hour, possibly more depending on experience.

Requirements

• An eye for accuracy.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Word
• A college degree or at least 1 year of college
• Strong academics or bookkeeping experience
• Aptitude for working with numbers

Preferred qualifications
This entry-level position is suited for a person who is reliable, accurate, and productive, a productive self-starter, intelligent, and resourceful. We'd like you to be someone who enjoys detail work, data entry, staying organized, and improving documentation. Accounting classwork is a plus.

Lawyer’s Aid Service values diversity and welcomes everyone to apply.