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Apprentice Accounts Assistant
Apprentice Accounts Assistant is a full-time role in a close-knit finance team of three. You'll support day-to-day financial operations, including bookkeeping, purchase and sales invoice processing, expense approvals, and managing the shared finance inbox. As your experience grows you'll assist with accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.
Wage: £20,000 a year. Salary £20k plus company bonus.
Benefits include a 10% pension contribution with life cover, Health & Wellbeing Allowance or Private Healthcare, EAP, 30 days’ holiday plus 2 extra paid days, and a flexible, inclusive workplace.
Training course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours: This hybrid role is based in Kidlington, with office attendance on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (9.00am - 5.00pm). Mondays are college study days. Thursdays and Fridays are remote, except the last Friday of each month which is office-based for business briefings. 35 hours a week
Start date: Tuesday 1 September 2026
Duration: 1 year 1 month
Positions available: 1
What you'll do at work
- Shared ownership of the purchase ledger
- Processing supplier invoices
- Setting up and maintaining supplier accounts in Xero
- Preparation of supplier batch payments
- Monitor the internal purchase order tracker
- Process employee credit card and cash expenses
- Manage supplier invoice queries
- Support with monthly reconciliation of consultancy revenue (delivered v billed)
- Raise sales invoices during busy periods
- Cash allocation of incoming receipts
- Credit control activity
- Assist the Accounts Assistant with month end management account reconciliation
- Assist the Finance Manager with month end/year end accounts
Where you'll work
1ST FLOOR
LATIMER HOUSE
THE LANGFORD BUSINESS PARK
LANGFORD LOCKS
OX5 1GG
Training provider
ABINGDON AND WITNEY COLLEGE
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
What you'll learn
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- 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
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.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 5)
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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
The role is office based and involves a high amount of collaboration and cross team working with internal and external stakeholders
We use MS Teams to remotely connect during the working day and hold most meetings on Teams where they cannot be in person during the office days
About this employer
Our mission is to make the world fairer.
Pearn Kandola LLP are one of the world's leading diversity and inclusion consultancies. We believe all businesses should embrace the power of difference. That's why diversity and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do, and our expertise in this area covers the entire employee journey.


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Based in Oxford yet working world-wide with clients from every sector of industry, we have a team of outstanding employees and a strong associate network. Through every project we help businesses understand the value of difference so that they can be more inclusive, more inspired, and more successful. A diverse workforce can play a vital role in inspiring businesses to achieve any objective. We help our clients to embrace difference, whether that be in ethnicity, gender or working style, and use it as a springboard to go out and do greater things.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
An opportunity to join a small business and become part of a supportive finance team
As you develop in the role and progress through your AAT studies, you'll have the opportunity to take on greater responsibility and advance your career
You'll gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the finance function at Pearn Kandola, from bookkeeping and transactional finance through to budgeting and financial reporting
This is a varied role that will grow with your skills and experience, offering excellent exposure to all areas of accountancy
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ABINGDON AND WITNEY COLLEGE
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apprenticeships@abingdon-witney.ac.uk
01235216362
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041581.
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