Bookkeeping apprentice

HILLIER HOPKINS LLP

Milton Keynes (MK9 1NA)

Closes in 15 days (Friday 4 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 18 June 2025

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Summary

Expanding specialist team to work and study and progress within the role. Study leave given and working alongside other apprentices in centrally based Milton Keynes. Having recently been awarded “Sunday Times” best place to work you will be assured of a warm and supportive welcome.

Wage

£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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1 weeks' additional pay at Christmas on a pro rata basis Discretionary summer bonus

Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday, shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 9 months

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

  • Bookkeeping – processing for complex clients.
  • Review of basic bookkeeping jobs completed by outsourced processing staff.
  • Setting up automated bookkeeping systems including but not limited too.
  • Xero.
  • Dext.
  • Contacting clients via email and telephone.
  • Review and analysis of financial data.
  •  Assisting colleagues and client with process improvements to improve efficiency.
  •  Balance sheet reconciliations for management accounts.
  • Assisting with preparation of year end trial balances.
  •  Preparation of VAT returns and filings.
  •  Preparation of CIS returns and filings.
  •  Ad-hoc admin duties to assist staff as and when required.

Where you'll work

249 Silbury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 1NA

Training

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

College or training organisation

MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE

Your 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.

Your training plan

  • Training with Milton Keynes College.
  • Ongoing training, support and development with the employer.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 5-9)
  • Maths (grade 5-9)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Xero Certified

Other requirements

A full driving license is preferred as you will need to commute to the workplace. To be eligible for this apprenticeship, you must meet the following residency criteria: You must have lived in the UK, the British Overseas Territories, or Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least three years prior to the start of the apprenticeship.

About this company

Hillier Hopkins is a leading Chartered Accountants in London, Watford and Milton Keynes. With 21 Principals and just over 200 staff we are a significant firm in the region. We advise businesses and individuals in the UK and worldwide and are members of TGS - an international network of professional firms. The firm is growing, dynamic and innovative, developing new ideas and services to assist our clients. We are committed to our ethos of “friendly expertise” and work hard to make sure that our clients prosper above all else. It is important to us to support the communities we work in and look after the planet we all inhabit. We have a year-round programme of fundraising, volunteering opportunities and initiatives to minimise our environmental footprint.

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Company benefits

Free eye test Private medical insurance Summer & Christmas staff events Access to free medical, legal and mental health advice

After this apprenticeship

If the AAT Level 4 is completed successfully and you are progressing well with your work, there may be the opportunity for your contract of employment to be extended.

Although not guaranteed, many of our Apprentices have become permanent members of staff building a strong career.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE

Sonia Harris

Apprenticeships@mkcollege.ac.uk

01908637056

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326776.

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Closes in 15 days (Friday 4 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

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