Accounts Apprentice
T K W LTD T/A THE ACCOUNTING HOUSE
DERBY (DE73 7HA)
Closes on Monday 12 January 2026
Posted on 9 December 2025
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Summary
Looking to build your knowledge and experience in finance? Based in Barrow On Trent, The Accounting House are looking for an apprentice to join their team and hit the ground running. In this role, you will be part of their close-knit team to support with bookkeeping duties, financial administration tasks and many other areas within accounts.
- Wage
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£16,575 a year
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There is an opportunity for the salary to increase following the initial employment stage
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm or 9am to 5pm
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 19 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
Bookkeeping (Core Responsibility)
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date bookkeeping records for a portfolio of clients.
- Process purchase invoices, sales invoices, receipts, payments, journals and accruals/prepayments.
- Perform bank reconciliations, credit card reconciliations, and control account reconciliations.
- Ensure all financial data is correctly coded and compliant with accounting standards.
Monthly Management Accounts (Core Responsibility)
- Prepare monthly management accounts for clients, including P&L, balance sheet, aged debtor/creditor reports, variance analysis, and cashflow insights.
- Review bookkeeping for completeness and accuracy prior to producing reports.
- Identify trends, anomalies, and issues within client accounts, raising queries where necessary.
- Work closely with the business owner to agree presentation style, reporting templates, and key performance indicators.
- Provide clear explanations of month-end results and support clients with understanding their financial performance.
Payroll
- Support the payroll process when required.
- Initially, payroll may be handled by the business owner while you become familiar with the workflow and client requirements.
- Assist in maintaining payroll records and processing basic monthly changes (e.g., starters/leavers, hours, adjustments).
Additional Responsibilities
- Assist with VAT submissions and ensure deadlines are met.
- Communicate directly with clients to obtain information or clarify queries.
- Maintain organised digital records and contribute to improving internal processes.
Credit Control
- Monitor outstanding customer invoices and ensure timely collection of payments.
- Produce and review aged debtor reports to identify overdue accounts.
- Send reminder statements, follow up by email/phone, and escalate overdue debts when required.
- Maintain accurate records of all contact with customers regarding outstanding balances.
- Work with clients to resolve invoice disputes quickly and professionally.
- Identify recurring payment issues and highlight them to the business owner.
Where you'll work
36 TWYFORD ROAD
BARROW ON TRENT
DERBY
DE73 7HA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EMA TRAINING 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
The Level 4 Professional Accounting Technician AAT apprenticeship standard includes 4 AAT exams, in addition to the Synoptic Assessment as part of the End-Point Assessment (EPA) process.
The knowledge units will be delivered at the EMA training hub in Derby, or online (depending on apprentices’ location) through day release.
Modules will include:
- Applied Management Accounting
- Drafting and Interpreting Financial Statements
- Business Tax
- Personal Tax
Attending the EMA hub in Derby city centre for classroom sessions delivered by specialist trainers, one day a week. You will also be supported by a dedicated mentor through your portfolio of work and end point assessment.
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
- Must hold AAT Level 3 qualification
- Must hold prior experience working within finance (preferably within practice)
- Experience with Sage
- Understanding of profit and loss balance sheets
- Hold a valid driving license – desirable
- In this role you will be the main support to clients who our outsourcing their accounts, therefore customer service experience would be beneficial.
Please note - There are two friendly office cats based at this location, so please take this into consideration when applying.
About this employer
The Accounting House has been established for over 20yrs and now supports multiple clients across all areas related to accounts. Whether you are a busy looking for support with balancing the books or someone to assist with tax regulations we are the business for you. An accounts practice with a personable touch and willing to follow through on promises from start to finish.
After this apprenticeship
Opportunity to stay as part of the team as a full time member of staff and the employer will be happy to discuss an appropriate pathway to becoming chartered (Level 7).
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000004603.
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Closes on Monday 12 January 2026
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