What are the responsibilities and job description for the Real Estate Law Firm Escrow Accounting Assistant position at McMichael & Gray, PC?
Real Estate Escrow Accounting Assistant
McMichael & Gray, PC is an established real estate law firm with offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. We are seeking an experienced Real Estate Escrow Accounting professional to join our accounting team. We are currently seeking candidates to work in our Lawrenceville, GA office. This is not a remote position. The responsibilities of the real estate accounting candidates will be to perform day to day processing of various accounting transactions, as well as providing support to ensure the law firm’s financial processes, planning, reporting and analytics are efficient and compliant. In addition to Real Estate escrow experience, the ideal applicant will have an eye toward detail, outstanding organizational skills and the ability to prioritize numerous tasks in a high-volume, deadline-oriented environment. The applicant must have the ability to professionally communicate with clients, work both independently and as part of a team, and provide exceptional customer service.
Responsibilities and Duties Include:
• Complies with and enforces federal, state, and local regulations that govern real estate title and settlement
• Follow ALTA Best Practices and company procedures
• Maintain reports of all files scheduled to close and fund in a particular day
• Perform quality control to match disbursement ledgers to settlement statement, ensure file is balanced
• Confirm that wiring instructions are accurate
• Initiate/Approve wires within online banking system
• Follow up and resolve any matters pertaining to rejected or returned wires
• Communicate and work with various departments in the firm to successfully receipt or deliver client funds pursuant to settlement
• Data entry and report review
• Detect and correct accounting errors
• Perform other duties as needed or assigned relevant to Accounting team as outlined above
Job Type: Full-time
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm