Accounting Assistant- Ap

Grow with us! We are featured in Inc. Magazine's prestigious 2023 Inc. 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List and are the 25th fastest-growing private company in the entire state of Louisiana!

Do you find satisfaction in helping people and making a difference in their lives and the lives of their communities? Laborde Earles is committed to providing quality representation to our clients and being fully attentive to their needs, which starts by providing the same favorable environment for our team members. Join us in standing up for our clients, with our community, by our work, and beside each other!

The Opportunity

Expanding Personal Injury Law Firm has an immediate opening for an Accounting Assistant- Accounts Payable in our Lafayette, La office location.

We are seeking a meticulous Accounting Assistant to be accountable to provide financial, administrative, and clerical support to the firm. This is an ideal position for a team-oriented individual with the skills to effectively communicate with individuals of all cultures and backgrounds. This role requires strong interpersonal skills where professionalism, confidentiality, and integrity are showcased. A successful candidate for the role will be detail-oriented as efficiently maintaining and processing accounts payable transactions is a primary day-to-day function. Success in this role will also require ability to multi-task and be solution driven to ensure accurate and timely processing of all accounts payable matters.

What Winning Looks Like:

Skills Needed to Win:

• Communicate: Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Must be able to draft professional letters that are free of grammar and spelling mistakes.
• Be Empathetic: able to deal empathetically with clients who are injured and scared, while still maintaining professionalism. Must be able to work as a team.
• Present Solutions: able to problem solve, follow instructions, be creative, use discretion, ask questions when necessary and be detail oriented.
• Be Honorable: able to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality and display good judgement
• Demonstrate High Organization: able to organize and prioritize effectively and efficiently

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Proficiency in data entry and management
• 1 year accounts payable or general accounting experience
• Knowledge of accounts payable
• Competent Computer literacy: able to learn new programs quickly and accurately. Strong keyboarding experience.

Physical Requirements:

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

The Perks of Being Part of Our Laborde Earles Community:

• 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) and profit sharing options 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.