Finance Apprentice (Harbottle & Lewis LLP) in City of Westminster

This exciting opportunity will give someone the potential to develop a career in legal finance within a dynamic finance team in a full-service law firm. As an Apprentice you will become a valued member of our Finance Team, learning and performing a range of tasks and processes. You will gain hands-on experience in many aspects of legal finance whilst also studying towards a professional finance qualification. The role requires someone who will fully commit to the 20% off-the-job training provided by our chosen training provider alongside your normal day-to-day role.

Full time. 35 hours per week. Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm. 1 hour for lunch.

Duties include:

• Posting of daily cash received into the firm’s account for payment of invoices
• Liaising on a daily basis with the Revenue Control team for receipts received that are unallocated
• Posting of Land Registry, Court fees, Search Acumen and Companies house online portal invoices
• Monitoring and coding Revenue Control inbox
• Checking eBilling portals and preparing reports for Revenue Controller & Partners
• eBilling accruals
• Uploading eBills to various portals by LEDEs format or manually
• Monitoring and liaising with Lawyers to correct errored and temporary time
• Preparing debt packs to include excel report, opening new matters, drafting LBA
• Monitoring Debt Collection receipts
• Filing and administering remittance advices
• Updating new starter rates and maintaining spreadsheet
• Preparing daily cash update
• Preparing Cash forecast document
• Completing Vendor forms
• Annual leave cover for Revenue Controllers
• Dealing with simple queries

Future Prospects: Whilst the role is a 24 month fixed term contract, if there is a suitable vacant position when the apprenticeship training concludes and the candidate has completed all of their required training, they will be considered as a potential candidate for the role. This is of course dependent on the needs of the business.

Training Provided: BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace. Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Skills Required:

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to form good working relationships.
• Ability to seek guidance and escalate issues where necessary.
• Strong comprehension skills, the ability to comprehend instructions both written and verbal and to accurately undertake tasks in accordance with those instructions.
• Good organisational skills to enable independent workload management, completing tasks in line with set deadlines.
• Adaptable to change.
• Strong IT skills to include knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel & Outlook.

Personal Qualities:

• A team player who will proactively contribute to a friendly and supportive work environment.
• Pro-active, helpful and willing, with a “can do” attitude.
• Adaptable with excellent attention to detail.
• Courteous and efficient.
• Someone who is curious to learn and develop.
• Professional and conscientious, taking a pride in doing the job well.

Qualifications Required: 5 GCSEs grade 4 - 9 (A* - C) or equivalent, to include English and Maths.

Closing Date: 26/06/2026

Start Date: 01/09/2026

Interview Date: 09/06/2026