Accountant Technician Apprentice

CLIENTS MATTER LIMITED

Bideford (EX39 3BT)

Closes in 9 days (Thursday 30 April 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 21 April 2026

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Summary

Giffords are offering an exciting opportunity for someone with a strong interest in accountancy to build a career in our dynamic and modern accountancy practice. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and willing to learn. You will need to have good numeracy, literacy, IT and people skills.

Wage

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

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Starting salary could be higher with practice experience.

Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.15pm with 1 hour for lunch.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 4 May 2026

Duration

1 year 6 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

  • Drafting Accounts and Tax Returns for Sole Traders, Partnerships, Limited Companies and LLPs
  • Drafting VAT returns
  • Cloud-based bookkeeping using QuickBooks and Xero.
  • Payroll

Where you'll work

Office 8 The Barns, Farm Road
Caddsdown Industrial Park
Bideford
EX39 3BT

Training

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

Training provider

EXETER AND NORTH DEVON COLLEGES GROUP

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

One day, a weekday release training at North Devon College (Barnstaple) to obtain a Level 3 Diploma in Accounting and a Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting apprenticeship with AAT qualification and membership following completion of Level 4.

More training information

Will also consider part-qualified AAT (or similar).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths (grade 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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this employer

Giffords is a dynamic and modern accountancy practice in Bideford. Our obsession for excellence means we have won numerous awards. We are also approved/accredited employers with AAT/ACCA/ICAEW.

https://www.giffordsca.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Possible flexible/hybrid working.

After this apprenticeship

Possible future training towards ATT/CTA/ACCA/ACA.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CLIENTS MATTER LIMITED

Jamie Thompson

jamie@giffordsca.co.uk

01805 433573

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000027480.

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Closes in 9 days (Thursday 30 April 2026 at 11:59pm)