Our Client

Our client is an established Sydney CBD law firm with a calm, capable finance team. The brief is to add depth on the legal accounting desk so trust work and the wider books stay tight as volumes move.

The Role

This is a permanent full time Financial Accountant seat with real ownership of the legal trust and controlled money cycle, plus solid support across the practice's day to day accounting.

- Run the legal trust and controlled money ledgers with accuracy and discipline
- Handle supplier invoices and help keep client billings moving
- Reconcile bank accounts and manage routine banking activity
- Help process wages and resolve staff pay queries
- Keep statutory and practice reporting obligations on track
- Prepare month end journals and balance sheet checks
- Work with external auditors when trust reviews come around
- Tighten process hygiene across a busy CBD law firm finance desk





The Candidate You will be a capable Financial Accountant or Accountant who thrives in hands-on law firm finance and can switch cleanly between trust work and general accounting.

- Proven AP, reconciliations and day to day accounting depth
- Comfortable running legal trust and controlled money cycles end to end
- Happy to support billings, banking and payroll in a professional practice
- Organised, calm under volume and sharp on detail
- Explicit communicator in a small, busy team
- Self-starting, commercially practical and quick to pick up firm process
- Tertiary accounting study is a plus

Remuneration and Benefits

- $100,000 remuneration
- Permanent full time role
- Sydney CBD law firm
- Stable legal finance team
- Broad exposure across trust and general accounting
- Direct involvement with auditors and compliance work
- Opportunity to own a clear desk of work

📌 Financial Accountant | Sydney CBD Law Firm Permanent | Trust Accounting Focus
🏢 Byron Thomas Recruitment
📍 Sydney