Overview
Accounting Clerk Jobs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at Insight Global
Title: Accounting Clerk
Company: Insight Global
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Title – Accounting Clerk Days on site – 5 Days On-Site (Downtown Vancouver Office)
Job Description / Day to Day / Scope
Our client is an established law firm in Vancouver, is seeking a temporary Accounting Clerk. This is an operational, contract to provide vital support during an upcoming accounting system migration from Soluno to CosmoLex. The firm's internal accounting team is currently operating at capacity, and this temporary role is designed to handle routine-to-complex operational transactions and clerical functions to help manage the transition workload.
Reporting directly to the firm’s two internal accountants, the scope of the role is strictly operational. It focuses entirely on general operating expenses, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and heavy data migration support. This position explicitly excludes any involvement with trust accounting or trust disbursements.
The day-to-day functions will heavily depend on the candidate's level of experience and analytical capability:
- Level One Support Focus: Routine clerical tasks, heavy volume data entry, basic data verification, and following highly standardized accounting procedures.
- Level Two Support Focus: More complex data functions requiring judgment, analysis, and data manipulation between systems using Microsoft Excel.
- Migration Specific Work: Exporting financial information out of Soluno into Excel, manipulating and formatting the fields to ensure compatibility (such as transforming a single-line address into separate street name and number fields), and prepping the data for the accountants and outside conversion consultants to upload into CosmoLex.
Responsibilities
- Input high-volume accounts payable, process vendor invoices, and accurately enter operational financial transactions under general instruction from the accountants.
- Manipulate, sort, and clean accounting data exported from Soluno within Microsoft Excel to ensure compatibility with CosmoLex system requirements.
- Perform meticulous data verification and data entry to ensure accuracy before and after system migration uploads.
- Assist the accounting team with daily operational functions, which may include posting journal entries, reconciling operational reports, and generating operational payments.
- Adhere strictly to the law firm’s rigorous internal data security, privacy, and confidentiality policies.
Must have requirements
- Experience: 2 to 5 years of dedicated bookkeeping, accounting, AR/AP experience.
- Legal Industry Exposure: Prior experience working within a law firm environment to ensure familiarity with legal billing files, multi-matter client file structures, standard legal transaction numbering systems, and operational files (e.g., litigation expenses, binding services, courier tracking).
- Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, specifically for sorting and manipulating data fields.
- System Knowledge: Experience working with CosmoLex legal accounting platforms.
- Core Competency: Demonstrated experience managing foundational accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) processes.
Nice to have requirements
- Post-secondary degree, diploma, or formal training program specializing in accounting or bookkeeping.
- Exposure to or familiarity with CosmoLex and Soluno Accounting Systems.
