Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship - Accord Healthcare Ltd
Cogent Ssc Limited
Fawdon (NE3 3NB)
Closes in 20 days (Monday 8 September 2025)
Posted on 19 August 2025
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Summary
Cogent Skills is working with Accord Healthcare Ltd to recruit an Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship to work at its offices in Fawdon. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the finance team of one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in the world, with excellent career and personal development opportunities.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Apprentices could be eligible for annual wage increments, subject to company budgets and satisfactory completion of goals.
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08:00am- 16:30pm with 1 hour unpaid lunch break.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 9 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
An Assistant Accountant helps in the operation of day-to-day financial activities. These may include data entry to month end management accounts and year-end financial statements. In addition, the assistant accountant may find themselves involved in regulatory financial requirements. These may include the completion of VAT returns or assisting in the preparation of tax computations. The role will be interesting and varied and typical activities will include:
- Assisting with monthly and year end reporting of financial and accounts information
- Overhead fixed cost reporting
- Ledger reconciliations
- Investigation of monthly manufacturing variances
- Organise weekly cycle counts
- Direct Labour Analysis
- Cost Accounting
Where you'll work
Accord Healthcare Ltd
Fawdon Manufacturing Centre
Edgefield Avenue
Fawdon
NE3 3NB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ACCESS TRAINING LIMITED
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.
Training schedule
Day release weekly, face to face, at Access Training Centre, Team Valley
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Please ensure that you currently live within, or can relocate to, a commutable distance of the site/training provider.
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
https://cogentskills.com/vacancies/ (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
This role is part of our talent planning for the future and, for the right person, we are looking to continue to develop the Apprentice upon successful completion of the Apprenticeship.
Our business is growing, is fast paced and evolving, so there may be the opportunity to gain permanent employment in the team, subject to performance, successful completion of the Apprenticeship, and a role being available.
Completion of this apprenticeship will provide the foundation to progress to the Level 4 Professional Accounting Apprenticeship, which incorporates the AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Cogent Ssc Limited
Tom Bretherton
thomas.bretherton@cogentskills.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337842.
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Closes in 20 days (Monday 8 September 2025)
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