AAT Accountancy Apprenticeship
McEwan Wallace Chartered Accountants
UK (CH41 5LH)
Closes in 7 days (Friday 31 October 2025)
Posted on 15 October 2025
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Summary
Are you looking to build a long-term career in Accountancy? Then look no further! Start your career today with an AAT level 3 apprenticeship with McEwan Wallace Chartered Accountants and Kaplan. You will be gaining valuable workplace experience including assisting with the preparation income statements, balance sheets, and various tax returns.
- Wage
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£14,231.75 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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36.25 hours per week - Monday to Friday
36 hours 15 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 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
We are looking for a bright and driven apprentice to join our team. The duties will include:-
Preparation of VAT returns, using all software:
Excel
Sage
Xero
Quickbooks
Preparation of sole trader and partnership accounts including:
Full balance sheet reconciliations for:
Fixed assets
Aged debtors and creditors
Prepayments / Accruals
Bank
Preparation of small limited company accounts.
Where you'll work
6 Abbots Quay, Monks Ferry
Birkenhead
Wirral
UK
CH41 5LH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
KAPLAN FINANCIAL 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 Apprenticeship Level 3. This level is ideal for existing staff or new talent in an accounting or finance role. Their work could include assisting in the day to day financial activities such as data entry to month end management accounts and/or year-end financial statements.
You will be studying the AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting. This level will encourage you to master more complex accounting principles in both Bookkeeping and Management Accounting.
You will study 5 units:
- Financial Accounting; Preparing Financial Statements (FAPS).
- Management Accounting Techniques (MATS).
- Tax Processes for Business (TPFB).
- Business Awareness (BUAW).
- Advanced Synoptic Assessment (ADSY) which forms part of your End Point Assessment.
An apprenticeship has to be relevant to the job you are undertaking and you must dedicate time to off the job training, as well as completing knowledge, skills and behaviours associated with your apprenticeship.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 9-4)
- Maths (grade 9-4)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
There is a car park at the office and we are a few minutes walk to Hamilton Square Station and main bus routes 20 days plus your birthday and bank holidays, Pension scheme if age eligible, Death in Service Policy
About this employer
Since we moved into our waterfront offices on the Wirral — what a difference it’s made. The move wasn’t just about getting a fresh space; it marked a clear step forward in how we support our people and grow as a firm. From the beginning, our ethos has been simple: put people first. We believe that when you create the right environment—where wellbeing, development, and flexibility are part of the culture—great things happen.
After this apprenticeship
After studying AAT Level 3 we encourage further training for Level 4 AAT and then onto ACA or ACCA studies, with your career developing and being promoted alongside the training.
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Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346702.
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Closes in 7 days (Friday 31 October 2025)
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