Management Accountant Apprentice (Royal College of Physicians)

On a daily/weekly basis provide prompt and accurate transactional support to the Finance Business Partners—coding of invoices, finance system journals, recharges, accruals/prepayments—acting on their instructions or those of their budget holders.

Wage: £27,962 a year

Training course: Accountancy or taxation professional (level 7)

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm; 35 hours a week

Start date: Monday 8 June 2026

Duration: 3 years

Positions available: 1

What you’ll do at work:

• With direction from the Finance Business Partners assist in completing the monthly management accounts closing process, ensuring that accrual and prepayment journal entries are made as directed.
• Be a source of knowledge on the structure of the Chart of Accounts and its relevance and applicability to the budget areas you work with.
• Generate and prepare the monthly management accounts report and distribute the reports to budget holders ahead of the Finance Business Partners’ monthly meetings.
• Generate and prepare the quarterly forecast template for Finance Business Partners and distribute to budget holders ahead of meetings.
• Lead on the month end goods receipting process with budget holders and their teams, ensuring that all open purchase orders are appropriately dealt with.
• Interrogate outstanding POs and work with budget holders to cancel POs that are not required and goods receipt as appropriate.
• Work with budget holders and their teams to embed good practice in using the purchase order system and work closely with Finance Systems to make improvements to the system as required.
• On a monthly basis check the payroll reports and send any coding error corrections to the Finance Systems team and HR; create and distribute monthly payroll reports to budget holders in the directorates supported.
• Provide support to the Finance Business Partners in annual budget setting process.
• Assist with Year-End duties and annual external audit.
• Review the FBP central mailbox and deal with basic queries from budget holders and refer as appropriate other queries to the relevant Finance Business Partner.
• Support the implementation of process improvement in order to gain efficiency and reduce cost.
• Support Finance Business Partners in maintaining the accuracy of all financial and non-financial records.
• Become a super user of the new budgeting and forecasting system and participate in the training of budget holders and their teams once it is rolled out.
• Actively contribute to your own personal development, attend relevant meetings and undertake training as required; observe personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in course of work.
• Any other duties as may be reasonably expected and which are commensurate with the level of the post.
• Adhere and comply with the provisions of the RCP’s health and safety policy, undertake all duties and responsibilities in compliance with the rules and regulations encompassing equal opportunities.
• Contribute to the work of the Department and wider RCP activities.

Where you’ll work:

The Spine, 2 Paddington Village, Liverpool, L7 3FA

Training provider: BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED

Training course: Accountancy or taxation professional (level 7)

Course contents:

• Build trusted and sustainable relationships with individuals and organisations.
• Consistently support individuals and collaborate to achieve results as part of a team.
• Influence the impact of business decisions on relevant and affected communities based on an appreciation of different organisations and the environments in which they operate.
• Communicate in a clear, articulate and appropriate manner.
• Adapt communication to suit different situations, individuals or teams.
• Identify ethical dilemmas, understand the implications and behave appropriately.
• Understand their legal responsibilities, both within the letter and the spirit of the law, as well as be aware of the procedures for reporting concerns over potentially unethical activities.
• Take ownership of allocated projects and effectively manage their own time and the time of others.
• Demonstrate good project management skills to deliver high quality work within the appropriate timeline.
• Act as a role model and motivate others to deliver results.
• Evaluate information quickly and draw accurate conclusions.
• Assess a problem from multiple angles to ensure all relevant issues are considered.
• Gather the appropriate facts and evidence in order to make decisions effectively.

Training schedule:

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information:

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.

Essential qualifications:

• GCSE in Maths and English (grade C or above)
• AAT (grade Level 3)

Desirable qualifications:

• AAT (grade Level 4)

Skills:

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent knowledge of Excel
• Knowledge of eRequest
• Managing own workload
• Prioritising