Client Accounts Apprentice (Leeds)

Summary

Start your accounts career with hands-on experience supporting client property portfolios, building your financial skills and working alongside a collaborative team.

Wage

£22,500 a year

Salary: £22,500 - £24,000 DOE + £1,000 Sign on Bonus

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Hours

Five full days in the office, working hours 9.00am- 5.30pm. One of these days each week will be dedicated to apprenticeship studies whilst in the office.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 December 2026

Duration

1 year

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

About the team:

The team consists of six members: one Associate Director, four Client Accountants, and one Apprentice. We are a close-knit team; working collaboratively to support each other and ensure we meet our clients’ expectations.

Day to day duties:

The purpose of this role is to support the management of property data and the control of client funds held on behalf of investors, ensuring the effective administration of property portfolios. As an Apprentice Accounts Assistant, you will work as part of a team of Client Accountants, providing administrative and financial support across a range of tasks and responsibilities. The client portfolio includes national contracts managed from local offices. While Savills primarily uses MRI for client information and property management activities, the role may also require working with one or more client-specific property management systems.

Key tasks and responsibilities include the following:

• Maintain housekeeping of Property & Lease data and financial data on databases
• Assist the Client Accountants in reporting to clients (standard reports plus additional as required)
• Ensure accurate reconciliation of client reports (i.e. VAT, client statement etc.)
• Site Income Reconciliations
• Maintain professional working relationships with internal and external clients and ensure that good client service is delivered
• Other miscellaneous administration tasks as required
• Ad-hoc tasks instructed by Client Accounts Team Leader and Head of Property Finance UK
• Prepare Instructions for Treasury department (following the relevant approvals) of the following:

a. Demand recharges of costs incurred from Tenants
b. Transfer of Rent monies to client
c. Amendments to Client Accounts
d. Payment of client property related transactions working with team property administrator on quarterly budget reports and forecasts
e. General maintenance of client funds i.e. tenant refunds etc
f. Processing of purchase invoices

In addition to the tasks described above, the job holder may be required to carry out other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Good organisational skills
• Word and Excel capabilities
• Good written, presentation and numerical skills are essential
• Excellent communication skills
• Diligent and detail driven
• Able to work individually and as part of a team
• Punctual, reliable, keen and enthusiastic
• Thirst for knowledge and self-motivated
• Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself. 

Where you'll work

3 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP

Training

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

Training provider

THE GROWTH COMPANY 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

Level 2 AAT or Level 3 AAT Apprenticeship depending on previous experience.

Full on the job training is provided to ensure all the required knowledge and experience is obtained throughout the apprenticeship to qualify successfully.

We will provide the full suite of Savills training programme including mandatory health and safety and office training, as well as specific training relevant to your role.

We ensure that your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is current and that all staff are fully up to date with changes to legislation and business needs.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade 4 or C and above)
• Maths (grade 4 or C and above)

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

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• Initiative
• Collaboration
• Adaptability
• Resilience
• Building Relationships
• Decision Making
• Planning and Organising

Other requirements

You must be eligible to live, work and remain in the UK, within 1 hour’s commute of the office you are applying to.