AAT Accountant Apprentice
Cloud Accounts Co. (North West) Ltd
UK (WA3 2AP)
Closes in 10 days (Friday 19 September 2025)
Posted on 8 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you looking to build a long-term career in Accountancy? Then look no further! Start your career today with a level 4 apprenticeship with Cloud Accounts and Kaplan. You will be gaining valuable work experience whilst working towards the AAT level 4 qualification.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday, working hours TBC
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 September 2025
- 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
Job duties:
- Assisting in preparing accurate financial statements and reports in line with accounting standards
- Supporting the accounts payable and receivable process, ensuring records are up to date
- Learning to use Xero for bookkeeping, reconciliations, and financial reporting
- Helping with monthly bank reconciliations and checking general ledger entries
- Assisting in budget preparation and analysis
- Supporting compliance work, including VAT returns, payroll, and basic corporation tax returns
- Helping prepare statutory accounts (FRS102 & FRS105) under guidance
- Providing administrative and client service support, including onboarding new clients
- Developing knowledge in business advisory services to support clients’ financial goals
Where you'll work
Unit 22, Lowton Business Park, Enterprise Way,
Lowton
Warrington
UK
WA3 2AP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
KAPLAN FINANCIAL 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
Professional Accounting Taxation Technician Apprenticeship Level 4 - AAT A key role within any accountancy and finance function, individuals undertaking this apprenticeship will hone their ability to create, verify and review accurate and timely financial information. This apprenticeship can suit a variety of financial functions as there are a range of qualifications available to suit your organisation. Our Professional Accountant/Taxation Professional apprenticeship programme offers a choice of professional qualification with work-based projects. This ensures that learning and skills are directly applied to the apprentice’s role, and maximises the time used as part of off-the-job training. The course is made up of three mandatory units and five optional units. You must pass all the mandatory assessments and two optional unit assessments to achieve the qualification. Mandatory: Drafting and Interpreting of Financial Statements (DAIF) Applied Management Accounting (AMAC).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- Maths (grade 9/A* - 4/C)
- English (grade 9/A* - 4/C)
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
A Level or equivalent 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
Other requirements
Holiday is statutory plus one day and parking is available.
About this employer
we have a wide range of clients with particular expertise in hospitality, event management and online businesses including e-commerce and influencers. We have a particular passion for tech start-ups, where by strategic forward planning, tax and funding are at the forefront of our minds.We work closely with all clients, as we feel it is important to understand you and your business so we can deliver the most comprehensive and accurate business advice and tax savings.
After this apprenticeship
Grow with the company, potential future management opportunities.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340940.
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Closes in 10 days (Friday 19 September 2025)
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