Apprentice Accountant Assistant in Bushey

Summary

An ideal opportunity which helps candidates to build their future career in accounting through an apprenticeship program. Updating and reconciling nominal ledgers activities and transactions, updating the sales, purchase ledgers, dealing with bank postings and bank reconciliation.

Wage

£15,600 to £24,784.50, depending on your age

Hours

Monday- Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm. 37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 23 December 2026

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

2

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

You will work with our finance department and be involved in accountancy duties including:

• Setting up and updating cash flow reports
• Managing and maintaining nominal codes and coding system
• Updating and reconciling nominal ledgers activities and transactions
• Maintaining and updating the sales and purchase ledgers
• Dealing with bank postings and bank reconciliation

Where you'll work

43-45 High Road

Bushey Heath

Bushey

WD23 1EE

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You'll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

THE TRAINING PLACE OF EXCELLENCE LIMITED

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

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

The training will take place at:

The Training Place of Excellence,12 New Cross Road, SE14 5BE.

Classes are held one day a week.

• You will gain AAT level 2 Foundation Certificate qualification
• Level 2 NVQ
• Accounting/Finance Apprenticeship Level 2 qualification
• Apprentices without Level 1 English and maths will need to achieve this level and taken the test for level 2 prior to taking their end point assessment

Essential qualifications

Function Skills L 1 in:

Maths, English (grade 4-9)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience

About this employer

The Training Place of Excellence have carefully structured each of our accountancy training programmes in order for each candidate to get the best of skills needed to complement their current knowledge and experience and get into an accounting job in the current employment market.

After this apprenticeship Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

• AAT Level 3 Apprenticeship
• Full time employment

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE TRAINING PLACE OF EXCELLENCE LIMITED

Brunilda Aliaj

brunildaaliaj@thetrainingplace.org

02072529331

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000062263.

Closes in 19 days (Monday 23 November 2026 at 11:59pm)

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