Business Services Assistant Apprentice (Accounts)
Nuvo Accountancy Ltd
Leicestershire (LE65 2GN)
Closes in 18 days (Monday 25 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 August 2025
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Summary
In this role, you will support the day-to-day operations of the accounting department by performing clerical tasks, including processing and recording transactions, preparing reports, fact-checking, and completing other accounting activities, while contributing to the smooth delivery of client services.
- Wage
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£20,800 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 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
Main Duties Include:
- Provide support to the business services team in managing daily financial tasks
- Perform accurate data entry and maintain comprehensive financial records
- Assist in preparing financial reports and reconciliations
- Help with processing accounts payable/receivable
- Ensure compliance with accounting principles and regulations
Data Entry and Transaction Processing:
- Enter daily financial transactions, including invoices, receipts, and expenses
- Update and maintain accounting records in accounting software and Excel
- Track and reconcile bank statements and client accounts
- Assist with processing accounts payable and receivable, ensuring invoices are paid or collected in a timely manner
Financial Reporting:
- Assist in preparing financial reports, such as balance sheets, income statements, management accounts and tax returns
- Prepare and process monthly journals including accruals and prepayments
- Conduct variance analysis as needed to support financial reviews
Reconciliations:
- Perform routine reconciliations of bank accounts, credit card statements, and general ledger accounts
- Identify discrepancies and resolve or escalate them accordingly
VAT Return Preparation and Compliance:
- Communicate with clients to gather financial information and resolve basic queries
- Provide updates to clients regarding the progress of accounts/reports
- Communicate with clients to chase in records
Administrative Support and Client Interaction:
- Maintain organised filing systems for all financial documents
- Assist with special accounting projects as assigned by senior staff
- Manage email communication/correspondence and general enquiries
Process Improvement:
- Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes to improve accuracy and efficiency
- Collaborate with other departments to resolve accounting-related queries
Where you'll work
Rawdon House Rawdon Terrace
Ashby De La Zouch
Leicestershire
LE65 2GN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
- Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
- Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
- Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
- Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
- Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
- Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
- Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
- Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
- Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
- Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
- Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
- Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Training schedule
You will complete the level 4 Professional Accountant Programme on day release from the employer for 15months.
Modules will include:
- Applied Accounting
- Drafting Financial Statements
- Internal Accounting Systems
- Business Tax And Personal Tax
Attending the EMA hub for classroom sessions delivered by specialist trainers.
You will be supported by a dedicated mentor through your portfolio of work and end point assessment.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
At Nuvo, our purpose is clear: to empower and elevate your financial journey. As trusted advisors, we’re here to help you achieve clarity, confidence, and growth in your business. Twenty years ago, we started as a small accounting firm dedicated to local businesses. Today, we’re still that dedicated team, but now with expanded services and a mission beyond numbers — to provide an exceptional client experience and a culture of partnership. We aim to show that it’s possible to deliver real value to clients, employees, communities, and beyond, in a sustainable, meaningful way. In the future, we hope people won’t think of us as just another accountant. Instead, they’ll know Nuvo as a true partner in their success.
After this apprenticeship
- Opportunity to progress into a full time position within the team upon completion of the apprenticeship programme
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
Jess Mitchell
apply@ematraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336159.
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Closes in 18 days (Monday 25 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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