Accounts Apprentice
PARKES & CO ACCOUNTANTS LTD
KINGSWINFORD (DY6 0AH)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 2 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 December 2025
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Summary
The apprentice will receive exposure to a variety of tasks across the practice whilst working across both the VAT team and the Accounts team, assisting in the preparation and delivery of a mix of services offered by the practice to clients from an array of different industries.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 12 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
The Accounts Apprentice will support the finance team with day-to-day tasks while developing their knowledge through on-the-job training and formal study.
Typical duties will include:
- Helping to maintain accurate financial records and filing systems
Assisting with bank reconciliations and checking transactions against statements - Preparing and updating spreadsheets in Excel
- Assisting with the processing of purchase invoices and sales invoices
- Assisting with entering data into accounting software
- Supporting the team with year-end preparations for limited company, partnerships, and sole traders
- Handling general finance administration, such as scanning, photocopying, and responding to email queries
To be considered for this position, Applicants must have a Level 3 AAT qualification.
Where you'll work
THE COACH HOUSE
GREENSFORGE
KINGSWINFORD
DY6 0AH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
HALESOWEN COLLEGE
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
Level 4 Professional Accounting Technician Apprenticeship Standard:
The successful applicant will be allocated with an assessor who will visit them in the workplace once every 6-8 weeks. In addition, they will attend weekly classes in college to work towards their AAT Level 4 qualification.
Requirements
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
- Organisation skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
About this employer
Parkes & Co is an independent accountancy and business advisory practice, based in Kingswinford (West Midlands). Our aim is to provide a highly personalised service, with specialist advice, that makes a real difference to you and your business.
After this apprenticeship
Potential Permanent role for the right candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HALESOWEN COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000004863.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 2 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
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