Professional Accounting Apprentice
DSA BOOKKEEPING LIMITED
Hertford (SG14 1JA)
Closes on Tuesday 24 February 2026
Posted on 8 January 2026
Contents
Summary
The role will provide the opportunity for someone who has a genuine interest in accountancy to start their career. It will enable you to develop your accountancy and taxation knowledge and experience working within an accountancy practice.
- Wage
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£22,000 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 9 am -5 pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 25 February 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
As a Professional Accounting Technician Apprentice, your duties will include but are not limited to:
- Bookkeeping Prepare VAT returns with training
- Prepare small sets of accounts and non-trading accounts using firms accounts plan
- Excel Analysis Prepare simple corporation tax computations with training
- Small sets of management accounts with training Answering the phone and emails
- Monitoring and maintaining deadlines
- Chasing information from clients
- General Administrative tasks eg post, filing, scanning, uploading accounts, maintaining deadlines Internet research
Desired skills and personal qualities
- Confident and professional communicator, particularly on the telephone
- Good work ethic and understanding of appropriateness in the workplace
- Good written and verbal communication
- Ability to listen and understand the client's needs
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure, multitask and cope with changing priorities
- Friendly and a team player
- Able to multi task
Where you'll work
Saxon House
6A St Andrew Street
Hertford
SG14 1JA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOLVEWAY 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
Training will be one day a week and we provide flexible options of classroom training in our offices in Hertfordshire, as well as LIVE online learning options. We provide full support with a work coach to ensure you have a positive and successful experience on the apprenticeship programme.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- maths (grade 4)
Other 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
At DSA Bookkeeping, we firmly believe that accurate books and records are the foundation of your business. DSA take care of all your financial administration, allowing you the time to focus on the other important aspects of your business.
After this apprenticeship
We look to support staff internally and will review once the apprenticeship qualification is gained to retain employment within the company, and progress further in accountancy.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOLVEWAY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007534.
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Closes on Tuesday 24 February 2026
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