Accounting Apprentice (Woods Russell Limited)
WOODS RUSSELL LIMITED
BASINGSTOKE (RG24 8NG)
Closes on Friday 21 November 2025
Posted on 14 October 2025
Contents
Summary
To provide accounting assistance to the partners and accountants. To prepare accounts and draft tax computations as well as dealing with payroll and VAT calculations. To work with Excel, QuickBooks and other accounting software to provide basic bookkeeping/accounting support and data entry to the accounting team.
- Wage
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£20,000 a year
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
Simple, honest, friendly, and uncomplicated.
Not the usual words you would associate with an accounting firm - but then, we like to think we are a little different.
Here at Woods Russell Accounting, we offer much more than classic accounting services - we provide a chance for our clients to have a Chartered Accountant professional as part of their team - working alongside them, with a vested interest in building their business and with a passion to create success. We love what we do, because we see the results every day in the success of our clients. That feels really good.
We are looking for an Accounting Apprentice to join this growing team.
Working in a quiet office in central Basingstoke.
This is an exciting opportunity to work towards an AAT qualification as an Accounting Apprentice for a small growing firm of Chartered Accountants in Basingstoke. Due to the small nature of the firm, you will gain experience across a broad range of jobs within an accounting firm including accounting, payroll, VAT, and tax.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Basic data entry of bank transactions, sales and supplier invoices into QuickBooks
- Basic data entry of bank transactions, sales and supplier invoices into Excel
- Reconciling control accounts e.g. performing bank reconciliations, wages reconciliations etc.
- Preparing extended trial balances
- Input of trial balance date into tax filer and preparing basic sets of accounts for the managing partner to review
- Imputing payroll data into money soft and preparing draft payroll for the managing partner to review
- Preparing draft VAT returns in QuickBooks and excel for the managing partner to review
- Printing off final versions of accounts and binding accounts for the managing partner
- Drafting minutes of meetings and dividend vouchers for the managing partner
- Drafting self-assessment tax returns for review
- Drafting company tax calculations for review
Where you'll work
FIRST FLOOR UNIT S
LODDON BUSINESS CENTRE
ROENTGEN ROAD
BASINGSTOKE
RG24 8NG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 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
Assistant Accountant Level 3.
More training information
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
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
- Problem solving skills
- Computer literacy
- Maths skills
- English skills
- Calm and rational
About this employer
Woods Russell are a firm of chartered accountants in Basingstoke. We prepare year end accounts, tax returns for our clients.
After this apprenticeship
We are a registered firm of Chartered Accountants and able to offer ACA Chartered Accountancy qualifications.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
La'Kei Scott
la'KeiScott@bpp.com
01133500333
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346450.
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Closes on Friday 21 November 2025
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