AAT Finance Apprentice
London Symphony Orchestra
London (EC2Y 8DS)
Closes in 23 days (Saturday 30 May 2026)
Posted on 6 May 2026
Contents
Summary
Are you looking to build a long-term career in Accountancy? Then look no further! Start your career today with a level 3 with London Symphony Orchestra and Kaplan. You will be dealing with reports, transactions and reconciliations whilst working towards the AAT level 3 qualification.
- Wage
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£27,000 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9:30am - 6:00pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 23 June 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
Bank & Cash / Investments
- Post bank transactions accurately and on a timely basis for the LSO Group.
- Maintain the cashbook, including fun-level splits.
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations and bank revaluations, including updating EUR and USD exchange rates (sourced from Oanda).
- Process cheque deposits and support payment runs as required.
- Assist Accounts Payable with payment run checks and controls.
- Prepare monthly investment reconciliations
Finance Manager support and Business Partnering
- Support the Finance Manager with core financial operations across designated entities.
- Post Hall returns and related accounting entries for relevant entities.
- Process grant‑related transactions, including grant income postings and intercompany transactions and invoices.
- Review aged debtors and creditors and follow up on outstanding balances.
- Act as a key finance contact for the Development team, providing support on income recognition, ledger allocations, and financial reporting.
Where you'll work
Silk St, Barbican
London
EC2Y 8DS
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
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
Advanced Diploma - AAT Level 3 Advanced builds on the knowledge gained in the Foundation level. If you work in accounts or have studied accountancy before, you may be able to start at this level. You’ll learn complex accounting techniques, and master a number of accounting disciplines including financial processes, advanced bookkeeping, final accounts and ethical practices for accountants.
This level will encourage you to master more complex accounting principles in both Bookkeeping and Management Accounting. You’ll develop the technical skills to start, or progress, your career in accountancy and this will allow you to continue with your studies onto Level 4.
To pass this level you’ll need to study five units (also known as subjects), which are all mandatory. Four of the units are examined individually and there is also a synoptic assessment that you’ll take towards the end of the level, which incorporates the final two units as well as drawing on all of the other units you’ve studied at this level.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 9/A* - 4/C)
- Maths (grade 9/A* - 4/C)
A Level or equivalent 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
- Number skills
- Attention to detail
About this employer
The London Symphony Orchestra was established in 1904, as one of the first orchestras shaped by its musicians. Since then, generations of remarkable talents have built the LSO’s reputation for uncompromising quality, and inspirational repertoires. Today, the LSO is ranked among the world’s top orchestras, with a family of artists that includes Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Emeritus Sir Simon Rattle, Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas and Associate Artists Barbara Hannigan and André J Thomas. The LSO is Resident Orchestra at the Barbican in the City of London. The Orchestra reaches international audiences through touring and artistic residencies – in cities including Paris, Dortmund and Tokyo, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, across Australasia and Latin America – and through digital partnerships and an extensive programme of live streamed and on-demand online broadcasts.
http://www.lso.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
25 days plus bank holidays
After this apprenticeship
To be discussed.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000029851.
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Closes in 23 days (Saturday 30 May 2026)
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