Accounts Assistant Apprentice

CT Skills

Unit 1, The Courtyard, Midpoint, Thornbury, Bradford (BD3 7AY)

Closes in 28 days (Friday 8 May 2026)

Posted on 10 April 2026

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Summary

You will provide essential support to the Finance Team across the purchase ledger, sales ledger, bookkeeping and reconciliation processes. This role is designed to build strong foundations in accounting principles while developing accuracy, organisation and communication skills.

Wage

£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.30pm (1 hour lunch).

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 11 May 2026

Duration

1 year 2 months

Positions available

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

  • Bookkeeping & transaction processing.
  • Assisting with processing supplier invoices & credit notes, including obtaining approvals, checking goods received data, and matching to purchase orders.
  • Purchase & sales ledger support.
  • Supporting with the logging, coding, matching & preparation of invoices for payment.
  • Supporting with cash allocation by matching customer receipts to accounts (aligned with accounts receivable tasks.)
  • Reconciliations & month end tasks.
  • Running Aged Creditor Reports and supporting follow up of outstanding balances.
  • VAT & compliance support.
  • Begin developing an understanding of UK accounting standards and VAT legislation relevant to daily tasks.
  • Collaborating with internal teams to resolve invoicing discrepancies or disputes.
  • Supporting senior accountants with ad hoc tasks as directed.
  • Contributing to the planning and reviewing of finance tasks and workflow improvements.
  • Minimum of 6 hours per week spent on apprenticeship work and training.
  • Further details about this role & duties involved will be provided as part of our screening process.

Where you'll work

Unit 1, The Courtyard, Midpoint, Thornbury, Bradford
BD3 7AY

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CT SKILLS LIMITED

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Record transactional data.
  • Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as, reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
  • Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
  • Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
  • Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
  • Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
  • Record transactional data.
  • Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as, reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
  • Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
  • Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
  • Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
  • Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.

Training schedule

You'll work towards the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting through monthly 1-to-1 online sessions (via MS Teams - so NO classroom OR college). Your AAT Tutor will support you with the study and completion of the mandatory qualification 'Certificate in Accounting.' This contains 4 modules that will each take approximately 2 months each to complete. You will sit a mandatory online exam after completing each module that you must pass in order to gain your AAT Level 2 qualification.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

None required (grade None required)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Communication skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Initiative
  • IT skills
  • Logical
  • Number skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working

About this employer

Complete IT Systems are proud to serve all types and sizes of businesses. For over thirteen years they have become a leading provider of IT solutions, products and services across the UK. Customers can select from the widest range of the latest and most robust Information Technology products available to solve pain points or facilitate new business growth.

After this apprenticeship

As with any apprenticeship opportunity - if you prove yourself to be a valuable member of the team there is a strong chance of a permanent post within the business.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CT SKILLS LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000025698.

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Closes in 28 days (Friday 8 May 2026)

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