At a Glance
- Tasks: Prepare budgets, manage financial records, and assist with financial statements in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join a successful recruitment agency focused on training future accountants.
- Benefits: Competitive wage, hands-on experience, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Progression to accounting assistant and accounts manager roles after apprenticeship.
- Why this job: Kickstart your accounting career with real-world experience and support for your growth.
- Qualifications: Level 2 qualification and bookkeeping experience required.
The predicted salary is between 18000 - 25000 £ per year.
This is a long term career opportunity to train as an Accountant in a successful recruitment agency. This is a busy environment in face to face customer care. If you want to be challenged and learn new skills then this is a role for you. We are looking for a candidate with bookkeeping experience and a level 2 qualification. If the right person has this, we will offer the level 3 apprenticeship.
Wage: Competitive wage offered. Pay to be discussed at interview.
Hours and Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (40 hours a week). Start date: Saturday 1 August 2026. Duration: 1 year 6 months. Positions available: 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:
- Prepare and monitor budgets: Contribute to preparation and monitoring of the companies budgets.
- Manage financial records: Support monitoring and control of financial records and key reconciliations.
- Assist with financial statements: Contribute to the preparation of the companies annual statements of accounts.
- Handle queries: Answer queries from colleagues.
- Use spreadsheets and accounting software.
- Match purchase invoices to purchase orders.
- Process purchase orders.
- Maintain accounts and resolve supplier queries.
- Assist with general administrative and financial duties of the accounting team.
Where you’ll work: Office 2 Amber Business Centre MERCURY PARK Tamworth B77 4RP.
Training: Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You will study to gain professional knowledge and skills. Training provider: South Staffordshire College. Training course: Professional accounting technician (Level 4).
What you’ll learn:
- Collate and analyse financial information to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities.
- Apply professional scepticism to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to potential misstatement due to error or fraud.
- Interpret financial information and use judgement to determine correct reporting or accounting methods, including ratio analysis.
- Support quality improvement activities, such as improving personal working practices.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks, complying with cyber and data security requirements, and backing up data safely.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a right first time approach.
- Manage workload, plan, organise and prioritise tasks, and manage time effectively.
- Use accounting information to add value through data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, communicating information for non-finance stakeholders.
- Communicate accounting information through various media to help stakeholders understand requirements, considering risks and benefits.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with stakeholders, recognising equality, diversity and inclusion.
Training schedule: The successful candidate will work towards achieving their AAT Level 3. A dedicated work-based trainer will be assigned to provide support and guidance. Learning will take place one day per week from the Lichfield campus.
Requirements:
Essential qualifications:
- GCSE Maths (grade 4-9 or A-C).
- GCSE English (grade 4-9 or A-C).
Share any other relevant qualifications or industry experience; the apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills:
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical skills
- Team working
- Creative thinking
- Initiative
- Non-judgemental attitude
- Patience
Progression: After successful completion of the apprenticeship, progression would be into roles such as accounting assistant and on to accounts manager.
Contact: South Staffordshire College – Apprenticeship Team apprenticeships@southstaffs.ac.uk 0300 456 2424
Reference code: VAC2000032800.
Apprentice Accounting Assistant employer: Government jobs, apprenticeship
Join a dynamic recruitment agency as an Apprentice Accounting Assistant, where you'll gain hands-on experience in a supportive and collaborative environment. With competitive wages, a structured training programme through South Staffordshire College, and clear pathways for career progression, this role offers a unique opportunity to develop your accounting skills while contributing to the success of the team. Embrace a culture that values learning, teamwork, and professional growth at our Tamworth office.
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Government jobs, apprenticeship Recruitment Team
