Junior Accounts Apprentice
BPR HEATON
Leeds (LS19 7XY)
Closes in 19 days (Sunday 6 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 June 2025
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Summary
BPR Heaton are looking for a detail-oriented and motivated Junior Accounts Apprentice. In this role, you will support the team by undertaking a range of accounting, audit, and financial duties. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience whilst working towards a Level 3 AAT qualification.
- Wage
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£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Depending on the successful candidate, the wage for this role will range from £264.25 to £427.35 per week.
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 18 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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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
As a trainee you will be expected to:
- Provide support to more senior colleagues by producing work without the need for basic amendments, and to agreed timescales.
- Proactively develop technical accounting knowledge through a combination of workplace learning and formal tuition.
- Understand the BPR Heaton values and apply this to any work carried out.
Duties and responsibilities:
Accounts
- Draft Financial Statements using IRIS accounting software for senior accountants to review and apply instructions given by senior staff.
- Prepare basic reconciliations seeking senior input as needed (VAT, Bank, PAYE, etc.)
- Prepare notes to assist the senior reviewing the draft financial statements and identifying unusual items that need to be brought to management’s attention.
- Work efficiently to a budget and be aware of hourly charges.
- Keep senior staff/management updated on the stage of jobs.
- Request feedback from senior staff reviewing your work to be proactive in self-development.
Audits
- Assist with substantive audit testing and other audit work as instructed by colleagues and be able to work independently after receiving instruction.
- Ensure audit work is fully completed, seeking assistance from senior staff as required in order to address problems areas.
- Be able to communicate the purpose of specific audit testing with clients.
- Attend stocktakes with senior staff with the view of attending them unsupervised in the future.
- Interact with clients at their premises and through email/telephone.
- Provide support to the audit manager.
Taxation
- Preparation of basic corporation tax returns and any other appropriate schedules.
- Understand add backs and basic principles of disallowed expenditure.
- Awareness of capital allowances in key areas.
- Prepare VAT returns based on information given from the client.
General requirements of the role
- Attend meetings as appropriate.
- Filing of invoices, correspondence and other documents.
Where you'll work
Glenewes House
Gate Way Drive, Yeadon
Leeds
LS19 7XY
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
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.
- 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.
Your training plan
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))
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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Commercial awareness
- Willingness to undertake AAT
- Excel skills
- IRIS/Sage/Xero knowledge
- Punctual
- Time management skills
About this company
Our team at UHY BPR Heaton in Leeds have been at the centre of advising and supporting a wide range of businesses and private clients in Leeds and the surrounding areas, for many years, in our mission to help our clients prosper. Located near the Leeds Bradford Airport in Yeadon, we offer a variety of services. Alongside a full suite of accountancy, audit and tax services, management accounts and outsourcing including cloud accounting and payroll services, our team members create value for our clients through individual specialisms, enabling us to provide a high quality and personalised service. We also provide special advisory services, estate planning and trusts as well as tax planning services and HMRC investigations. We have a great variety of clients in the Leeds and the wider Yorkshire area, and provide accountancy services for businesses, small and large, spanning multiple sectors.
After this apprenticeship
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to progress onto a professional accountancy / tax qualification at a higher 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 VAC1000326259.
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Closes in 19 days (Sunday 6 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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