Finance Assistant Apprentice (Maintenance Reserves)

TUI UK LIMITED

Beds (LU2 9TN)

Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 17 November 2026)

Posted on 5 November 2026

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Summary

Want to get your career off to a flying start? The sky’s the limit with TUI. We’re the world's number one tourism business, operating in around 180 destinations worldwide. As part of our Finance Apprenticeship, you’ll spend three invaluable years working right at the heart of our business.

• Wage:

  £20,288 a year

  Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

  Starting salary for the role is £20,288 per annum with fantastic progression and incremental roll off salary.

• Training course: Assistant accountant (level 3)
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.

  37 hours 30 minutes a week

• Start date:

  Monday 4 January 2027

• Duration:

  3 years

• 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

At TUI Group, we're transforming into a fully integrated, digitally advanced global travel company.

Our Engineering and Maintenance Finance team ensures clear financial reporting, supports decision-making, and helps save costs across a €0.7bn budget.

As an apprentice, you'll assist with the Airframe and Powerplant cost base, provide commercial support to help finance colleagues and Business Partners understand key trends and spending, and help with various maintenance reserves projects. We're looking for someone interested in finance, willing to learn, and with good communication skills. Join us and start your career in a dynamic and supportive environment!

• Helping with month-end reports and journal entries
• Assisting with budgeting, forecasting, and cashflow
• Preparing monthly balance sheet checks
• Promoting good financial practices and risk awareness
• Ensuring consistent processes and reporting across regions
• Analysing data to track spending trends
• Supporting the team with various projects
• Using data systems to provide insights for decision-making
• Being a positive and proactive team member

Where you'll work

Wigmore House
Wigmore Lane
Luton
Beds
LU2 9TN

Training

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

Training provider

FIRST INTUITION CAMBRIDGE LIMITED

Training course

Assistant accountant (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Assist with the investigation of, and response to, financial information queries.
• Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
• Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements, and report financial information to users of accounts.
• Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
• Reconcile financial data, such as preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
• Investigate, resolve, or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
• Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
• Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
• Communicate using a range of approaches and media, with an understanding of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
• Assist with the investigation of, and response to, financial information queries.
• Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
• Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements, and report financial information to users of accounts.
• Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
• Reconcile financial data, such as preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
• Investigate, resolve, or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
• Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
• Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
• Communicate using a range of approaches and media, with an understanding of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.

Training schedule

Our Finance Apprenticeship offering is an exciting opportunity to gain a professional accounting qualification (AAT), whilst developing a rewarding career in our Finance team.  

The programme involves three years of study to become AAT-qualified through two apprenticeships: Level 3 Assistant Accountant and Level 4 Professional Accounting/Taxation Technician, all the while being paid in a full-time permanent finance role.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade C and/ or 4 or above)
• Maths (grade C and/ or 4 and above)

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
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Resiliance
• Passion for Finance

Other requirements

On starting, you will be required to complete the Level 2 Bookkeeping course prior to starting the apprenticeship. We reserve the right to withdraw this advert should we receive lots of applications.

About this employer

Be Yourself… TUI’s more than a brand, it’s who we are. Trusted – Unique – Inspiring. We’re the leading tourism business with diverse customers and over 60,000 employees. Together, we embrace different continents and cultures. We believe travel broadens the mind. Just like our customers, we’re on a journey - of development towards a more digital, connected and integrated future - but we haven’t arrived there yet. We believe that differences drive innovation and we’re encouraging an environment where diverse talent thrives. Inclusion is fundamental to everything that we achieve and it’s our unique colleagues that will shape the future of travel. The TUI Group includes over 400 owned hotels, 16 cruise ships, a digital platform for more than 160,000 tours, activities and experiences, strong tour operators, 1,200 travel agencies and leading online portals, five airlines with around 130 aircraft, and destination services in all major holiday countries around the globe. It covers the entire tourism value chain under one roof. This integrated offering enables us to provide our 21 million customers with an unmatched holiday experience in 180 regions. A key feature of our corporate culture is our global responsibility for economic, environmental and social sustainability. This is reflected in more than 20 years of commitment to sustainable tourism. In 2022 financial year the TUI Group with a headcount of around 60,000 recorded turnover of about €16,5bn and an operating result of €409m. The TUI Group’s share is listed in the FTSE 250 index, in the Quotation Board of the Open Market on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and regulated Market of the Hanover Stock Exchange. As part of our Diversity Equity and Inclusion policy we encourage applications from all sectors of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer we guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will make reasonable adjustments to assist in the interview process. Applications are open to all sectors of the community

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Company benefits

• Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts, special offers and the ability to purchase additional ‘TUI time off’ 
• Private medical Insurance
• Health and Wellbeing support
• Excellent rates with foreign exchange and discounts with retailers
• Pension scheme and life assurance
• Workwide Scheme (30 days working abroad)

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).

• Level 4 Accounting/Taxation Technician Apprenticeship and Level 4 AAT qualification

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

TUI UK LIMITED

Emerging Talent & Apprenticeship Team

emergingtalent.careers@tui.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000062833.

Apply now

Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 17 November 2026)

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