Apprentice Accountant Assistant

Summary

An ideal opportunity which help candidates to build their future career in accounting through an apprenticeship program. Updating and reconciling nominal ledgers activities and transactions, updating the sales, purchase ledgers, dealing with bank postings and bank reconciliation.

Wage

£15,600 to £24,784.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 24 November 2026

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

2

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

You will work with our finance department and be involved in accountancy duties including:

• Setting up and updating cash flow reports
• Managing and maintaining nominal codes and coding system
• Updating and reconciling nominal ledgers activities and transactions
• Maintaining and updating the sales and purchase ledgers
• Dealing with bank postings and bank reconciliation

Where you'll work

1 Market Street
London
London
SE18 6FU

Training

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

Training provider

THE TRAINING PLACE OF EXCELLENCE LIMITED

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

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.
• 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

The training will take place at:

The Training Place of Excellence,12 New Cross Road,SE14 5BE.

Classes are held one day a week.

• You will gain AAT level 2 Foundation Certificate qualification
• Level 2 NVQ
• Accounting/Finance Apprenticeship Level 2 qualification
• Apprentices without Level 1 English and maths will need to achieve this level and taken the test for level 2 prior to taking their end point assessment

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths, English (grade 5-9)

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
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience