ACCA Level 7 Accounts and Audit Apprentice

Shenward

West Yorkshire (BD19 6BW)

Closes in 11 days (Monday 23 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 9 June 2025

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Summary

For the past four years, Shenward has successfully operated a graduate and apprenticeship scheme, offering participants an excellent environment to develop their skills and gain experience across all areas of accounting.

Wage

£26,000 a year

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The wage can be negotiable depending on candidate experience.

Training course
Accountancy or taxation professional (level 7)
Hours
Starts vary between 8.30am and 9.00pm and finish times vary between 5.00pm and 5.30pm, or 4.30pm on a Friday. Shenward offers a flexible start and finish window dependent on how long a lunch break the employee would like to take.

39 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 14 July 2025

Duration

3 years

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

  • Manage and interact with your own portfolio of clients to ensure monthly bookkeeping is done to high standards.
  • General daily bookkeeping taskse., maintaining a detailed sales ledger, preparing supplier payment runs, bank/credit card reconciliation.
  • Ensuring items are processed correctly into the client’s books.
  • Monthly/quarterly management reports preparation and preparing VAT returns.
  • Responding and actioning emails in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Supporting clients in their journey to making tax digital.
  • Supporting practice and senior accountants with year-end accounts and tax return preparation for sole traders, partnerships, LLP and Limited companies.
  • Support team with administration.

Where you'll work

Summit House
Bradford Road
Cleckheaton
West Yorkshire
BD19 6BW

Training

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

College or training organisation

FIRST INTUITION LEEDS LIMITED

Your training course

Accountancy or taxation professional (level 7)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Build trusted and sustainable relationships with individuals and organisations. Consistently support individuals and collaborate to achieve results as part of a team.
  • Influence the impact of business decisions on relevant and affected communities based on an appreciation of different organisations and the environments in which they operate.
  • Communicate in a clear, articulate and appropriate manner.  Adapt communications to suit different  situations, individuals or teams.
  • Identify ethical dilemmas, understand the implications and behave appropriately. Understand their legal responsibilities, both within the letter and the spirit of the law, as well as be aware of the procedures for reporting concerns over potentially unethical activities.
  • Take ownership of allocated projects and effectively manage their own time and the time of others.  Demonstrate good project management skills to deliver high quality work within the appropriate timeline. Act as a role model and motivate others to deliver results.
  • Evaluate information quickly and draw accurate conclusions. Assess a problem from multiple angles  to ensure all relevant issues are considered. Gather the appropriate facts and evidence in order to make decisions effectively.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4 or above (C or above))
  • Maths (grade 5 or above (C or above))
  • x 5 GCSEs (grade 4 or above (C or above))

Other in:

Level 4 (grade Pass or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship 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
  • Team working
  • Proficient in the use of Sage
  • Proficient in the use of Xero
  • Proficient in use QuickBooks
  • Prior knowledge of VAT
  • Prior knowledge of UK Tax Laws
  • Knowledge of double entry
  • AAT experience
  • Proficient in use of Excel
  • Proficient in use of Outlook
  • Proficient in use of Dext

About this company

We’ve been around for over 30 years, and whilst we have a global client base and two offices in West Yorkshire, we remain humble and ensure that our culture is one where our team come first and feel valued. We’re serious as a practice about helping businesses not only remain compliant, but become profitable and efficient too. That’s why we stay true to providing a bespoke solution for every client that comes to us for support.

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After this apprenticeship

  • We have a career pathway in place at Shenward which aims to help employees progress through the business, with most advancing year on year in their role to the next level.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

FIRST INTUITION LEEDS LIMITED

Megan Field

meganfield@firstintuition.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322662.

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Closes in 11 days (Monday 23 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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