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Bookkeeping Apprentice
ACCOUNT-I LIMITED
MANCHESTER (M8 5BW)
Closes in 5 days (Tuesday 13 October 2026)
Posted on 6 October 2026
Summary
Are you looking to build a long-term career in accountancy? Then look no further, we have an excellent opportunity for a motivated proactive accounts assistant apprentice to join our small and friendly team based in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
- Wage: £14,560 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
- National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Training
- Course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am-5.30pm, 35 hours a week
- Start date: Monday 19 October 2026
- Duration: 1 year 4 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
- Daily reconciliations
- Maintaining accurate and up-to-date financial records for multiple clients
- Processing accounts payable and receivable transactions efficiently
- Preparing monthly management accounts and financial reports
- Identifying discrepancies and resolving issues related to financial data
- Supporting the finance team with other accounting and business support tasks
Where you'll work
86A BURY OLD ROAD
MANCHESTER M8 5BW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- Training provider: BURY COLLEGE
- Training course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
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What you'll learn
- 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
Accounts Finance Assistant L2 Standard
This qualification requires college attendance weekly (Wednesdays)
Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade 4/C or above or equivalent)
- GCSE in: Maths (grade 4/C or above or equivalent)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
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About this employer
Account-I is an online Accountants for Businesses. Whether you are a Sole Trader, Partnership or a Limited Company, we have dedicated accountants who will be able to assist businesses with their company accounts, tax returns, VAT returns, bookkeeping services, payroll services and many more accounting services.
This is an entry-level role supported by government's youth employment schemes available for 16 – 24 year olds. Our funding for this vacancy utilises the department for education’s new £2,000 Apprenticeship Hiring Payment (for more information on eligibility please see further details on the government website – https://www.gov.uk/employing-an-apprentice/get-funding.
https://account-i.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab). We are offering the right person a long-term career and a permanent position within the company upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BURY COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000057472.
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Closes in 5 days (Tuesday 13 October 2026)
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