Settlement Accountant

DM Injury Law is hiring a Settlement Accountant to manage accounting functions that support accurate and timely client payments. The role processes settlement documentation, reconciles accounts, records transactions, and provides operational support to the settlement and finance teams.

What you'll do:

• Create client-facing settlement summaries and settlement packages for attorneys
• Review settlement summaries for accuracy and consistency
• Review and approve settlement accruals entered by attorneys
• Reconcile settlement-related account activity
• Reconcile daily exception reports
• Enter journal entries for co-counsel fees, commissions, and similar items
• Enter bank transfers for both IOLTA and Operating accounts
• Apply daily cash to open receivables
• Assist with electronic deposits through the banking web portal as needed
• Set up new vendors in the ERP system
• Generate accounting system data for reports
• Respond to and resolve requests in the shared email inbox

What they're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 1+ years of full-cycle accounting or settlement experience
• Proficiency with MS Office, accounting software, and databases
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Attention to detail: You can review others' entries and accurately record a large volume of transactions
• Time management: You can juggle competing priorities, such as clearing bottlenecks, supporting attorneys and clients, and handling essentials like depositing incoming checks, while still making time for special projects and helping teammates with urgent work
• Communication and teamwork: You explain your decisions clearly, research team questions and follow up with findings, offer help when you're caught up, and ask for help when you're behind
• Problem solving: You find practical solutions to existing and emerging issues, whether that's a management reporting question, a reconciliation problem, or a way to make a time-consuming task more efficient and accurate
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• SharePoint and OneDrive
• Adobe Acrobat
• Law firm experience is preferred but not required

Benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance coverages
• 401(k) matching retirement plan – up to 4%
• 3 weeks (120) hours of PTO
• Paid holidays
• Work/Life balance – do the job you love, with great people and NO long, crazy hours!
• Stability – become an integral member of an energetic team in a growing law firm
• FREE on-site parking garage