Accounts / Finance Assistant Apprentice
PETRA ACCOUNTING SERVICES LTD
Dartford (DA2 8DL)
Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 June 2026
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Summary
This is a great opportunity to start to your career in Accountancy and will cover a range of accounting and bookkeeping functions, including assisting the existing payroll team and getting involved in performing day to day bookkeeping transactions for clients and drafting their VAT returns.
- Wage
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£15,600 to £24,784.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.30pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 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
A broad range of accounting and finance tasks will be undertaken providing experience across our activities. Tasks at some point would include:
- Data entry for the weekly and monthly client payrolls
- Processing purchase ledger invoices
- Supplier payments
- Reconciling suppler statements
- Maintaining supplier records
- Sales invoicing
- Credit control
- Maintaining customer records
- Processing company credit card statements
- Processing staff expenses
- Matching the bank feeds
- Month-end journals
- Dealing with intercompany management charges
- Understanding the various accounting software in use
- General admin, including a lot of ad-hoc duties, assisting the owners in both administration, finance and other duties, getting to really know the business, including
- Providing occasional cover on the telephone support
Where you'll work
Oast House
Shellbank Lane
Dartford
DA2 8DL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
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 will undertake the “Accounts/Finance Assistant” Apprenticeship (an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Accounting), with full support from Accountancy Learning as part of their Flexible Apprenticeship Programme.
You will receive support from both the employer, and the training provider, to complete and achieve your Apprenticeship and will be given time to study during the week on a day release basis.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Excel skills
Other requirements
The transport links to the office are limited. If applicants do not have access to a car, transport can be arranged from Longfield train station.
About this employer
Petra Accounting is a small practice based in North-West Kent.
We are looking for someone to join our team of 5. Any suitable candidate needs to be enthuusiast to learn, have great attention to details and willing to work hard and support the team.
Our accounting practice specialises and supports self employed, contractors, freelancers, medium and small businesses. We have a wide range of different clients, which allows the apprentice to gain experience in all areas of accounting.
Hopefully the right candidate brings new ideas to the business as we are always looking for new systems to make our clients life’s easier, now with AI we want to take full advantage of the time and money savings this can create.
We aim to relieve work but not replace our personal service. All clients needs are different, and we tailor our service to suit all our client base.
Parking is provided within a secure and private car park on site.
After this apprenticeship
We see this position as a stepping stone for an ambitious candidate to kick start their career in the accountancy profession.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
Vicky
Vicky@accountancylearning.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034712.
Apply now
Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)