Audit Apprenticeship (AAT) – Media sector - March 2027
Moore Kingston Smith
London (W1T 1QL)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 16 October 2026)
Posted on 29 September 2026
Contents
Summary
You will work with a wide range of businesses across the media and entertainment sector, delivering exceptional client service while earning a Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting from the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT).
- Wage
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£29,000 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 3 March 2027
- Duration
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2 years
- 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
With support and training, key responsibilities in the first 12 months will include:
- Develop a strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting standards, and auditing guidelines.
- Attend client offices and represent the firm professionally as part of the audit team.
- Assist in planning audits, including reviewing prior year information and preparing lead schedules.
- Perform audit testing on key financial areas such as income, expenses, assets, and liabilities.
- Check the accuracy of financial schedules and ensure figures agree with supporting records.
- Prepare financial statements in line with relevant standards and legal requirements.
- Draft corporation tax computations and support tax-related audit procedures.
- Liaise with clients to gather documentation, clarify queries, and support audit progress.
- Maintain accurate and well-organised working papers in line with internal procedures.
- Review and update client data in accounting and tax software systems.
- Identify and suggest improvements to client systems and internal processes.
- Support the preparation of audit close-out meeting materials and discussion points.
- Communicate effectively with internal teams, including technical and tax departments.
- Help manage client expectations and meet deadlines throughout the audit process.
Where you'll work
17 Gresse Street
London
W1T 1QL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
FIRST INTUITION 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
In-person tuition with our trusted training provider during set study blocks.
Requirements
Essential 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
Other requirements
- This role is for those without a degree. If you have a degree, please apply for one of our graduate programmes.
- To be permitted to work in the UK, for at least 2-years from the start date of the programme.
About this employer
At Moore Kingston Smith, we help people realise their ambitions.
We believe in the potential of people to make a positive impact, fuelled by the power of genuine understanding.
Supporting a diverse range of clients, we are a multi-disciplinary advisory, tax and audit firm with expertise across multiple sectors, uniquely positioned to help people realise their ambitions. Our teams deliver quality results locally and internationally as part of the Moore Global network.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
As you near completion of the AAT apprenticeship, you will be considered for progression onto the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACA) pathway, which after 2 further years of study, would lead to becoming a fully qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Charted Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW).
We have clear progression routes, and there’s plenty of opportunity to take your career in the direction you desire at Moore Kingston Smith. In fact, many of our partners started out as trainees here and through hard work, commitment and drive have gone on to leadership roles.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
FIRST INTUITION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055832.
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Closes in 17 days (Friday 16 October 2026)
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