Accounts Assistant

**Immediate Start Date availble**

If you’re currently working in a finance team and are interested in looking for your next opportunity in this function, we may have just what you’re looking for We’ve got a great opportunity for a temporary Accounts Assistant for 6 months, so read on

We’re looking for people who are interested in growing their careers with us. To be successful in this role you’ll need proven experience of performing bank reconciliations along with commercial awareness skills and the ability to assess financial data and use your initiative to recommend any corrective actions.

As our new Accounts Assistant at Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, you will be performing a high volume of bank reconciliations as well as building and maintaining relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues across the business. You’ll be based at our offices in Worthing town centre.

In this rewarding role we’ll support you to use your expertise in accounts to support our finance function deliver the best service to our clients. Your new role will involve you carrying out the following duties:

- Using your skills to perform daily bank reconciliations, ensuring client monies are protected which will involve reconciliation between bank account, client ledger and cash book
- Billing our clients and checking the transaction files each week to ensure accurate reporting of client collections and court disbursements
- Reconciling and posting court costs
- Transferring funds between clients and posting to relevant journals as well as carrying out purchase ledger and payment runs
- Running month-end reports and ensuring any Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) audits are adhered to.

To support you with this, our in-role training means you will be fully briefed and supported throughout.

It’s the MCS colleague’s amazing efforts, hard work and dedication that sets us apart from the rest, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

- Competitive starting salary with an opportunity to increase over time, there’s also an annual bonus scheme
- 30 days holiday including bank holidays and the opportunity to take an additional 5 days unpaid holiday each year
- Discounts and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops
- Healthcare cashback plan, travel insurance and life assurance
- A paid volunteering day each year - these are great fun
- Ongoing support and development from our in-house talent development team
- We operate a hybrid working business model, offering employees the ability to blend between office and home working for better work life balance
- If this sounds like you and you have got what it takes, come and join our rapidly expanding team

Mortimer Clarke Solicitors (MCS)is a specialist litigation law firm, providing litigation services to its clients. MCS was established in 2007 and we now employ over 100 staff at our office in Worthing, West Sussex.

MCS are part of the Cabot Credit Management Group and fall under the Group membership of the Credit Services Association. We operate to the highest regulatory standards and take exceptional pride in the way we work. Find out more here.

We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority and we are members of the Credit Services Association and are proud to be at the forefront in helping to shape best practice standards for the industry.
- Diversity and inclusion_ _are very important to us at MCS and we value diverse talent within our business. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone. _