Service Charge Accounts Apprentice

Summary

This role involves supporting the Service Charge team with completing year-end service charge accounts.

Wage

£22,500 a year

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

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday between 9.00am - 5.30pm.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 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

Purpose:

This role involves supporting the Service Charge team with completing year-end service charge accounts and helping to manage these processes across the business. You will play a key part in making sure everything is delivered on time and to a high standard, helping the team meet important goals (KPI’s).

About the team:

Our team is made up of seven people, including a Senior and three Service Charge Accountants. We focus on preparing and monitoring service charges across the regions.

Day-to-day duties:

Validating service charge expenditure to ensure accuracy and completeness
Producing balancing schedules to apportion service charge expenditure on the correct basis
Producing draft service charge year-end packs to assist the service charge accountants
Assist the service charge accountants with client reporting
Ad-hoc tasks instructed by the Service Charge Team leader and the Head of Service Charge
Completing variance analysis and producing final reports for the Property Managers approval
Assisting team members as required

How you’ll make an impact:

Good communication and 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

Where you'll work

55 Colmore Row
Birmingham
B3 2AA

Training

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

College or training organisation

TRAIN TOGETHER LIMITED

Your training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

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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.

Your training plan

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

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

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

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

Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Written skills

About this company

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world's leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.

https://www.savills.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

After you complete your apprenticeship, you will continue your career with Savills.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED

Apprenticeship Team

apprenticeships@savills.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326763.

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Closes in 22 days (Tuesday 15 July 2025)

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