About the role
Ranked a Best Employer in Canada for 24 years, Bennett Jones is one of Canada’s premier business law firms and home to 500 lawyers and business advisors. With deep experience in complex transactions and litigation matters, and offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and New York, the firm is well equipped to advise businesses and investors with Canadian ventures and connect Canadian businesses and investors with opportunities around the world. Serving clients since 1922, we are proud to be the firm that businesses trust with their most complex legal matters.
We are currently recruiting for the following role in our Toronto office:
Specialist, Trust Accounting
This role involves collaborating with members of the trust accounting team in all locations. It also requires frequent communication with financial institutions and internal stakeholders, including lawyers, paralegals, and legal assistants, to ensure the accuracy of trust transactions. The position necessitates developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of provincial Law Society rules regarding trust funds. Additionally, the role involves adhering to established processes and controls to comply with these rules and other internal safeguards designed to protect trust monies.
Essential Functions
- Reconcile daily and monthly trust bank account activity
- Making deposits, arranging for bank wires, cheques, and investments, and all associated trust administration
- Processing trust investment transactions
- Prepare rush cheques/wires and obtain authorizing signatures as required
- Process trust deposits, including scanning cheques into the banking system
- Use online banking platforms to initiate wire transfers for Trust transactions
- Adhering to provincial Law Society rules and Bennett Jones internal policies and procedures including cost control
- Provide cross-coverage for other trust specialists across the country
- Obtain required signatures and approvals for trust transactions
- Other responsibilities as assigned by the Supervisor
Qualifications
- Trust experience of at least 2 years is an asset
- Proficient with Accounting software as well as Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience using Aderant is an asset
- Ability to multi-task, strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
- Ability to multitask and work well under pressure in a high-volume environment
- Energetic and positive attitude
- Ability to communicate effectively with external vendors and internal staff
- Law firm experience and knowledge of the Law Society bylaws relating to trust or Professional Services experience is an asset
- Demonstrates good judgment and professionalism
- Capacity to work independently and autonomously, as well as in a team environment
- Ability to handle conflicting and changing priorities in a positive manner
Apply To Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
3400 One First Canadian Place
P.O. Box 130
Toronto, ON M5X 1A4
E-mail: hrdeptcal@bennettjones.com
All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory verification of a Canadian criminal record check. Determination of the factors that constitute satisfactory verification is within the sole discretion of Bennett Jones.
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
Bennett Jones welcomes applications from all applicants, including applicants who may requires a specific accommodation because of a disability or another protected ground. Any applicant requiring accommodation during the application process should contact email noted above.
About Bennett Jones
For over a century, Bennett Jones has been an internationally recognized Canadian law firm founded and focused on principles of professional excellence, integrity, respect and independent thought. Our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the law we practise, the ground-breaking work we do, the client relationships we have and the quality of our people.
Bennett Jones is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal and New York. Our professional practice encompasses virtually every sector of business, industry and government. Operating seamlessly across our geographic locations, our business practice is to assign lawyers to work on client files who have the skills and experience that best meet our clients’ needs.
Our ranks are filled with leaders in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, energy and natural resources, corporate finance and banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, climate change, environment, ESG, construction, technology and intellectual property, tax, competition, international trade and public policy. Members of our exceptional Public Policy group have served at the highest levels of office and been invaluable for their leadership in shaping public policy in Canada—and in developing business responses to those policies.
Among our group we count a former governor of the Bank of Canada, two former deputy prime ministers of Canada, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice, a former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America and a former commissioner of the Canadian Competition Bureau.
About the role
Ranked a Best Employer in Canada for 24 years, Bennett Jones is one of Canada’s premier business law firms and home to 500 lawyers and business advisors. With deep experience in complex transactions and litigation matters, and offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and New York, the firm is well equipped to advise businesses and investors with Canadian ventures and connect Canadian businesses and investors with opportunities around the world. Serving clients since 1922, we are proud to be the firm that businesses trust with their most complex legal matters.
We are currently recruiting for the following role in our Toronto office:
Specialist, Trust Accounting
This role involves collaborating with members of the trust accounting team in all locations. It also requires frequent communication with financial institutions and internal stakeholders, including lawyers, paralegals, and legal assistants, to ensure the accuracy of trust transactions. The position necessitates developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of provincial Law Society rules regarding trust funds. Additionally, the role involves adhering to established processes and controls to comply with these rules and other internal safeguards designed to protect trust monies.
Essential Functions
- Reconcile daily and monthly trust bank account activity
- Making deposits, arranging for bank wires, cheques, and investments, and all associated trust administration
- Processing trust investment transactions
- Prepare rush cheques/wires and obtain authorizing signatures as required
- Process trust deposits, including scanning cheques into the banking system
- Use online banking platforms to initiate wire transfers for Trust transactions
- Adhering to provincial Law Society rules and Bennett Jones internal policies and procedures including cost control
- Provide cross-coverage for other trust specialists across the country
- Obtain required signatures and approvals for trust transactions
- Other responsibilities as assigned by the Supervisor
Qualifications
- Trust experience of at least 2 years is an asset
- Proficient with Accounting software as well as Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience using Aderant is an asset
- Ability to multi-task, strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
- Ability to multitask and work well under pressure in a high-volume environment
- Energetic and positive attitude
- Ability to communicate effectively with external vendors and internal staff
- Law firm experience and knowledge of the Law Society bylaws relating to trust or Professional Services experience is an asset
- Demonstrates good judgment and professionalism
- Capacity to work independently and autonomously, as well as in a team environment
- Ability to handle conflicting and changing priorities in a positive manner
Apply To Human Resources
Bennett Jones Services Limited Partnership
3400 One First Canadian Place
P.O. Box 130
Toronto, ON M5X 1A4
E-mail: hrdeptcal@bennettjones.com
All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory verification of a Canadian criminal record check. Determination of the factors that constitute satisfactory verification is within the sole discretion of Bennett Jones.
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
Bennett Jones welcomes applications from all applicants, including applicants who may requires a specific accommodation because of a disability or another protected ground. Any applicant requiring accommodation during the application process should contact email noted above.
About Bennett Jones
For over a century, Bennett Jones has been an internationally recognized Canadian law firm founded and focused on principles of professional excellence, integrity, respect and independent thought. Our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the law we practise, the ground-breaking work we do, the client relationships we have and the quality of our people.
Bennett Jones is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal and New York. Our professional practice encompasses virtually every sector of business, industry and government. Operating seamlessly across our geographic locations, our business practice is to assign lawyers to work on client files who have the skills and experience that best meet our clients’ needs.
Our ranks are filled with leaders in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, energy and natural resources, corporate finance and banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, climate change, environment, ESG, construction, technology and intellectual property, tax, competition, international trade and public policy. Members of our exceptional Public Policy group have served at the highest levels of office and been invaluable for their leadership in shaping public policy in Canada—and in developing business responses to those policies.
Among our group we count a former governor of the Bank of Canada, two former deputy prime ministers of Canada, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice, a former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America and a former commissioner of the Canadian Competition Bureau.