Accounts Apprentice (SpectrumX Direct Limited)
SPECTRUMX DIRECT LIMITED
KNUTSFORD (WA16 8FB)
Closes on Friday 30 January 2026
Posted on 8 December 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for an Accounts Apprentice to join our finance team and get involved in the day-to-day running of a busy accounts function. The role gives solid exposure to all core areas of finance, with plenty of support as your skills develop.
- Wage
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£21,000 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, start time flexible between 8.00am - 9.00am. Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 February 2026
- 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
You will start by helping with the fundamentals: processing purchase and sales invoices in Xero, managing the main accounts inbox, keeping supplier and customer data accurate, and supporting both AP and AR activity. You’ll also be involved in bank reconciliations, coding transactions, resolving discrepancies, and helping us stay on top of Pleo company payment card activity.
As you progress, you’ll build experience in month-end management accounts tasks such as preparing accruals and prepayments, posting supervised journals, completing basic balance sheet reconciliations, and assisting with audit and reporting requests.
This is a practical, hands-on role suited to someone who’s organised, willing to learn, and ready to get a genuine understanding of how a finance team operates. You’ll be supported throughout, with the chance to build strong foundations for a long-term career in accounting.
Key Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable:
- Process purchase invoices in Xero with accurate coding and correct approvals
- Match invoices to purchase orders or internal authorisation
- Manage the primary accounts inbox, ensuring queries are prioritised and resolved
- Process and monitor pro forma invoices, ensuring timely payment and receipt of VAT invoices for processing into Xero
- Help maintain supplier data and assist with supplier statement reconciliations
Accounts Receivable:
- Process sales invoices in Xero accurately and in line with customer agreements
- Assist in managing customer accounts, ensuring data is up to date and queries are handled promptly
- Support credit control activity, including monitoring overdue balances and following up with customers professionally
- Reconcile customer receipts and allocate payments correctly
Bank & Cash Management:
- Complete regular bank reconciliations in Xero
- Code and allocate bank transactions accurately
- Investigate and resolve unreconciled items
Pleo Card Management:
- Monitor company Pleo card transactions and ensure receipts/supporting documentation are submitted
- Review, code, and post Pleo transactions into Xero
- Reconcile Pleo activity to the Pleo bank feed and resolve discrepancies
General Finance Support:
- Maintain organised, compliant financial records
- Assist the finance team with ad hoc administrative tasks and operational finance duties
Month-End Support:
As confidence grows, the apprentice will gain experience in:
- Preparing accrual and prepayment schedules
- Posting supervised month-end journals
- Completing basic balance sheet reconciliations
- Supporting the month-end close process
- Assisting with audit requests and internal reporting
Where you'll work
UNIT 8 NOVUS
PARKGATE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
HAIG ROAD
KNUTSFORD
WA16 8FB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 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
More training information
- BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team
- Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace
- Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Other 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
- Confident with numbers
- Confident with financial data
- Basic Excel skills
- Accuracy
- Proactive
- Eager to learn
- Reliable approach to deadlines
About this employer
SpectrumX is a biotechnology company focused on providing safe and effective healthcare products powered by proprietary HOCl formulations. SpectrumX is the ONLY company in the UK and Europe to have the license to use the patented, shielded HOCl+ formulation, Spectricept Tm. Coupled with this, SpectrumX is establishing itself as a market leader in the manufacturing of liquid steriles and associated products into both clinical and aesthetic settings.
Company benefits
- Workplace Pension with NEST
- Structured pay-progression increasing salary over completion of apprenticeship to £24k gross/annum
- Employer funding for first sitting of each exam and CIMA student membership
After this apprenticeship
- Upon completion of the Level 4 apprenticeship and building confidence in a finance setting this role will become an Accounts Assistant
- Furthermore there is potential for the successful candidate to move onto a Level 7 CIMA apprenticeship and work towards full chartered management accountant status
- This offers a direct path from entry-level training to full professional qualification, with ongoing support from the finance team throughout
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000004328.
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Closes on Friday 30 January 2026
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