Level 2 Accounts and Finance Apprentice (Salary £19,000)
DEAN WILSON LLP
HOVE (BN3 1TL)
Closes in 30 days (Friday 25 September 2026)
Posted on 26 August 2026
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Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Apprentice Accounts Assistant to join the client accounting side of the Accounts team. Every matter the firm handles passes through the Accounts team, and this role sits on its client accounting side.
- Wage
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£19,000 a year
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 October 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Reporting to the Senior Lead Cashier, you will help keep the firm's client and office ledgers accurate: raising invoices, allocating and paying disbursements and answering queries from our legal advisers. You will start with straight forward, well-defined tasks under close supervision and take on more as your confidence grows. Any work involving the movement of client money is always checked by a qualified cashier, and final authorisation of payments stays with the senior team throughout your apprenticeship.
Key duties and responsibilities will include:
In your first few months, working alongside an experienced cashier:
- Monitoring the Accounts inbox, answering routine queries and passing on anything more complex
- Processing memos on client matters to record disbursements paid via direct debit for billing
- Annotating monthly supplier statements and weekly court fee account invoices with the correct allocations
- Preparing charity donation requests for approval
- Keeping invoice, credit note and supplier records in good order
As your knowledge builds:
- Processing invoice requests in line with work in progress (the unbilled time recorded on a case) and the legal adviser's allocation instructions
- Setting up new purchase ledger suppliers and verifying their details
- Preparing the weekly payment run for professional disbursements, and supporting the additional runs we make during the week for counsel's fees and similar items
- Producing regular invoices from established templates and providing the supporting paperwork our outsourced cashiering platform, Cash room, needs in order to make payment
- Monitoring client disbursements raised on the system and keeping the record of fee notes up to date
- Learn and apply the Solicitors Accounts Rules.
Later in your apprenticeship:
- Liaising directly with our legal advisers to resolve billing queries and to request bills so that costs can be taken and disbursements paid
- Processing credit notes, invoice reversals and reprints, and transferring costs back to the client account
- Preparing client to office transfers and running the daily reports that support them
Where you'll work
RIDGELAND HOUSE
165 DYKE ROAD
HOVE
BN3 1TL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DAMAR LIMITED
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Record transactional data.
- Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues, such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
- Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
- Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
- Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience, and different media methods, with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
- Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Record transactional data.
- Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues, such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
- Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
- Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
- Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience, and different media methods, with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
- Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
Training schedule
Accounts and Finance Level 2 apprenticeship standard.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C and above)
- Maths (grade 6/B and above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this employer
Dean Wilson LLP is a long-established Brighton law firm with over 100 years of experience, known for its client-focused approach and commitment to delivering exceptional legal services. The firm prides itself on building trusted relationships through professionalism, transparency, and excellent client care.
https://deanwilson.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Private medical cash plan
- Life insurance
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Social activities and sports teams
- Dog-friendly office days
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Whilst the position is initially offered on a fixed-term basis, the intention is to support the successful candidate's long-term development with the firm. Subject to satisfactory performance, a positive contribution to the team, and business needs at the time, there may be opportunities to progress onto a permanent position or continue with a higher-level apprenticeship upon completion of the programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAMAR LIMITED
Sabina Adam
Sabina.Adam@damartraining.com
07566 289 979
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049600.
Apply now
Closes in 30 days (Friday 25 September 2026)
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