Apprentice Accounts Assistant

HARRO LIMITED

HULL (HU3 1DR)

Closes in 30 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 11 November 2025

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Summary

As an Accounts Assistant, you will support the Accounts Department in maintaining accurate financial records and assisting with the day-to-day processing of transactions.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday between 8.30am - 5pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 22 December 2025

Duration

1 year

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

Sales and Purchase Ledger Support

  • Assist in raising and sending customer invoices.
  • Help resolve customer queries to ensure prompt payments.
  • Support the entry and checking of supplier invoices in the accounting system.
  • Help prepare supplier payments under supervision.

Banking and Reconciliation

  • Support with reconciling bank transactions to ensure records are accurate.
  • Learn to process and record receipts and payments correctly.

Reporting and Compliance

  • Assist in preparing basic reports and summaries for review by the Head of Finance.
  • Learn about HMRC requirements such as VAT returns and compliance deadlines.

Administration

  • Help maintain organised financial records and filing systems (digital and paper).
  • Provide general administrative support to the finance team as needed.
  • Participate in team meetings and training sessions.

Teamwork and Communication

  • Work collaboratively within the Accounts team and across departments.
  • Communicate clearly and professionally with customers, suppliers, and colleagues.

Where you'll work

122 LONDESBOROUGH STREET
HULL
HU3 1DR

Training

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

Training provider

MCARTHUR DEAN TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Record transactional data.
  • Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as, reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
  • Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
  • Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
  • Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
  • Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
  • Record transactional data.
  • Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues such as, reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
  • Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
  • Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
  • Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
  • Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.

Training schedule

Finance/Accounts Assistant Level 2:

  • One-to-one Tutor Assessor support in the workplace working towards Finance/Accounts Assistant Level 2.
  • Functional Skills if required.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade 6)

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
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this employer

The Harro Group of organisations provide a wide range of services within the pump industry in offering fluid handling solutions. Within the group we are committed to providing the highest quality service within the industry. All organisations within the Harro Group employ specially trained personnel to deal with our clients’ needs efficiently and to provide solutions using reliable and proven products. Within the group, all the different departments work closely together, utilising skills from different backgrounds and experience. This means that Harro Group are the best placed to design and provide excellent products for all of our clients’ site specific requirements. Harroquip Pump Systems started in 1999 meaning that within the group we have amassed years of technical knowledge and engineering expertise.

After this apprenticeship

Excellent prospects with the possibility to progress onto level 3.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MCARTHUR DEAN TRAINING LIMITED

Julie Curtis

julie@mcarthurdean.co.uk

01482 210093

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000091.

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Closes in 30 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

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