Trainee Restructuring Administrator Apprentice (FRP Advisory)
FRP ADVISORY TRADING LIMITED
Bristol (BS2 0HQ)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 3 July 2026)
Posted on 16 June 2026
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a motivated individual to join our experienced Restructuring Advisory team in our Bristol office. This role is ideal for someone looking to start a career in the professional services sector, develop professional expertise and gain a recognised qualification while working.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30, with 1 hour paid lunch break.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 August 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
Role overview
The role is designed to combine hands-on, practical experience with formal training to deliver solvent liquidations (members’ voluntary liquidations, MVLs), administrations and other corporate restructuring solutions for SMEs and large groups, while working towards a Level 4 Apprenticeship.
As a Trainee Apprentice, you will work closely with the Restructuring team to support the efficient delivery of restructuring assignments, focusing on compliance, documentation, and communicating with multiple stakeholders.
As you develop and gain more experience, you will begin to start dealing with more complex case specific matters, taking on greater responsibility.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Perform office administration tasks including dealing with visitors and handling post
- Respond to incoming calls and correspondence and drafting letters and reports as required as part of the case management team
- Assist Managers and the wider team with their portfolio of cases including producing statutory paperwork and other legal documents, managing 'take on' administration processes and maintaining files
- Maintain the case management system and other software to document statutory compliance and transactions
- Diary management and scheduling meetings both internally and with clients
- Producing time cost summaries for statutory reports
- Answering main office phone during busy periods, transferring calls and passing on messages for staff members.
Our Values
Straightforward: We provide clear, no-nonsense advice.
Confident: Our guidance is backed by expertise and evidence.
Pragmatic: We focus on practical solutions and tangible outcomes.
Real: We are professional yet approachable, understanding the challenges our clients face.
Our Commitment to You and the Environment
At FRP, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on the natural environment.
We are always striving to improve in all areas – whether it’s our people, our clients, our planet or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture for our people.
Our learning and development programmes enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers. We aim to empower our team members to each achieve their potential.
We are committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We are emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
Where you'll work
Kings Orchard
1 Queen Street
Bristol
BS2 0HQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
More training information
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
2 A-Levels 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
- Attention to detail
- Highly motivated team player
- Written communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn
- Adaptable and flexible
Other requirements
- Ability to exhibit our core values of being clear, honest and considered in your approach to work
- Highly motivated team player with excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills when engaging with clients and colleagues
- Diligent with keen attention to detail and a professional approach to work
- Adaptable and flexible approach to work with a genuine willingness to learn
About this employer
At FRP, we are a leading national business advisory firm based in the UK. With over 900 team members, including more than 100 partners, we specialise in Corporate Finance, Debt Advisory, Forensic Services, Financial Advisory, Restructuring Advisory, and Real Estate Advisory. Operating from 35 offices across the UK, Isle of Man and Cyprus, we are dedicated to helping clients navigate complex and difficult situations to create, preserve, and recover value.
Our approach is known for being honest, clear, and considered. We provide strategic solutions that cater to a broad range of businesses, from multinational organisations to small enterprises. Our commitment is to deliver expert advice and support, ensuring our clients can make informed decisions and achieve their goals.
Company benefits
- Life cover 4 x salary
- Auto enrol pension – currently 5% employer (whole salary) and employee 5% (qualifying range). Not matched.
- Employee Assistance Programme – free 24/7 confidential support
- Annual flu vaccination
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon successful completion of the Level 4 Professional Accounting Technician Apprenticeship, the apprentice will have the opportunity to continue their professional development such as the Level 7 ACCA.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037447.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 3 July 2026)
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