Accountant

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world. The success of our firm is largely determined by our commitment to hire and develop the very best and brightest, creating a team that provides our clients with the highest quality of work and service. We are driven by our core values: respect, innovation, and collaboration.  

The Accountant is an integral part of Latham’s Finance & Accounting team. This role will be responsible for reviewing invoices and expenses through the Chrome River platform and initiating payment, preparing client billing and responding to billing related queries, ensuring all client guidelines, internal protocol and firm policies are followed and enforced, keeping local accounting books, and performing reconciliations and analyses, and providing support to tax filing, annual audit, annual budget, and other ad-hoc projects, while analysing invoices, exercising judgment, and identifying issues that require escalation. This role will be located in our Beijing office.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Assisting in payment initiation; reviewing accounting documents for completeness and accuracy
• Communicating with external vendors and internal customers about requests and updating them on the progress
• Responding to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders in a timely manner
• Providing support to the inventory management function, including but not limited to quarterly write-off campaign, pledging campaign, small matter clean-up, and Finance Committee calls

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Demonstrate well-developed and professional interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with people at all organisational levels of the firm
• Display the ability to work in a team environment with a customer-service focus
• Possess strong knowledge of bookkeeping procedures such as posting, balancing, debits and credits, and journal entries

And have:

• Relevant experience in accounting processes and practices
• Prior experience with law firm/audit firm

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Insurance
• Confidential Counseling & Coaching
• Family Building Benefits & Resources
• Well-Being programs
• And more!

Additionally, we have a range of diversity programming including Global Affinity Groups. These groups provide a firmwide platform to share experiences and advice as well as an opportunity to participate in a supportive network with common interests to help make life at the firm even better.

Latham & Watkins is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, sustainability, and pro bono legal services. We draw from a remarkable wealth of talent to create one of the world's leading law firms, and advance these commitments through the work of our Global Citizenship department. Our lawyers, paralegals, and professional staff worldwide comprise a rich mixture of different races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, cultures, and primary languages. Our diversity makes us who we are.