Accounts Assistant Placement

The Brussels office is the largest, with more than 300 attorneys. Our litigation department handles complex commercial disputes, class actions and regulatory investigations.

About the internship

Avocats West is hiring an Accounts Assistant Placement for Jul 2027. Part-time remote role, 4 to 6 hours a day. You need to be careful, consistent and good with Excel. You can work from home anywhere in Belgium. We have no office requirement. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities

• Raise sales invoices from the billing sheet and send them to clients
• Process expense claims after checking bills and approvals
• Update the fixed asset register
• Help prepare the trial balance and supporting schedules for month-end close
• Track accounts receivable ageing and share a weekly list of overdue invoices
• Check vendor invoices against purchase orders before payment
• Maintain vendor and customer ledgers and follow up on mismatches
• Support internal and statutory audit requests from the auditors

What we're looking for

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Belgium
• Accurate and patient with repetitive data entry
• Good MS Excel skills, including VLOOKUP and pivot tables
• Working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and basic journal entries
• Clear written communication for emails to vendors and clients

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with Xero
• Articleship or internship experience at a CA or audit firm

What you get out of it

• Month-end close and audit preparation from start to finish
• Practical bookkeeping and reconciliation on live company accounts
• You will handle at least one tax return cycle with supervision
• Strong Excel habits for accounting work

Program dates: Jul 2027, 3 months.

Intern pay: €940 - €960 per month

What we offer

• Company laptop
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Certificate of completion

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jul 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Avocats West.