Legal Bookkeeper

We provide specialist bookkeeping services to the legal sector, working across the major Law Society–approved practice management platforms — LEAP, Smokeball, Actionstep and Clio.

We're looking for an experienced Legal Bookkeeper to join us. Hours are flexible: the role can be structured as part-time, full-time or casual, with scope to grow as your skills and availability allow.

What you'll do

• Reconcile Statutory Trust Accounts using legal practice management software

• Investigate and resolve trust account discrepancies, tracing entries to their source and correcting them in line with trust accounting requirements

• Investigate software integration issues between practice management platforms and accounting systems (e.g. data sync errors, mismatched or missing transactions), and work to resolve them

• Reconcile office bank accounts and credit cards

• Manage payroll and superannuation

• Prepare Business Activity Statements (BAS)

• Handle ad hoc accounting duties as they arise

What you'll bring

• A minimum of 3 years' bookkeeping experience

• Hands-on experience reconciling Statutory Trust Accounts in one or more Australian legal practice management systems

• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve trust account discrepancies

• Experience troubleshooting software integration issues between legal practice management software and accounting systems

• Solid experience processing payroll and superannuation, including compliance with relevant obligations

• Solid working knowledge of both MYOB and Xero (essential)

• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail

• Clear, friendly communication and the ability to engage with clients professionally

• Fluent English

Why join us

You'll work in a supportive environment with genuine opportunity to develop your skills and take on more responsibility over time.