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Apprentice Bookkeeper Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised Apprentice Bookkeeper to join our well-established bookkeeping team.
This is an excellent opportunity to begin a career in accountancy while gaining practical experience and working towards a recognised bookkeeping or accountancy qualification.
What you'll do at work
- Processing sales invoices, purchase invoices, expenses, and bank transactions
- Maintaining accurate client bookkeeping records using Xero and other cloud accounting software
- Completing bank, credit card, and control account reconciliations
- Using data-capture and bookkeeping applications effectively
- Identifying missing information and raising client queries
- Assisting with the preparation of VAT returns
- Maintaining clear supporting records and an appropriate audit trail
- Keeping client work organised and completing tasks within agreed deadlines
- Responding to review points and applying feedback to future work
- Supporting the bookkeeping and accounts teams as required
Where you'll work
The American Barns
Banbury Road, Lighthorne
Warwick
CV35 0AE
Training Details
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REED BUSINESS SCHOOL LIMITED
Training course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements, and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
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.
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Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Due to the location of our offices, access to your own transport is essential.
We are an established and dynamic firm of chartered accountants and business advisors with offices in central England and the Cotswolds. Since its founding in 2000, we have built a strong reputation, serving nearly 1,000 business leaders, Landed Estates, and High-Net-Worth individuals. The company's client-focused approach emphasises collaboration, delivering tailored services like Specialist Tax, Strategic Planning, and Compliance Support. Working with entrepreneurs, owner-managed businesses, and prominent clients, we combine the professionalism of a large organisation with the personalised service of a trusted advisor to help our clients achieve their goals.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. [Find out about potential future pay](opens in new tab).
Subject to successful completion of the apprenticeship and continued performance, there may be an opportunity to progress into a permanent bookkeeper position and undertake further accountancy qualifications.
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