Accounts Apprentice
BIDWELLS LLP
Cambridgeshire (CB2 9LD)
Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026
Posted on 10 February 2026
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Summary
As an Accounts Apprentice, you will gain hands-on experience in all aspects of management accounting, contributing to the smooth financial operation of the business.
To support your professional development, you will have the opportunity to study for an ATT qualification as part of our apprenticeship study programme.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
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+ Group Staff Bonus of up to 4-weeks extra pay
+ Generous Benefits Package
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 9.00am - 5.30pm and Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
1 hour for lunch towards the middle of the day.
A total of 37 hours per week
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 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
- Processing bank transactions across multiple accounts
- Processing month end journals
- Recharging and allocating costs accordingly
- Maintaining reconciliations
- Raising sundry sales invoices on an ad hoc basis
- Assisting in the annual audit process
- Assisting with the preparation of reports for the business to assist with decision making
- Assist in preparing tax computations
- Ad hoc duties as and when necessary, for example, cost analysis
Where you'll work
Bidwell House
Trumpington Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 9LD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
FIRST INTUITION CAMBRIDGE 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
- To support your professional development, you will have the opportunity to study for an ATT qualification as part of our apprenticeship study programme
- 80% of your time (4 days per week) will be on-the-job working, and 20% of your time (1 day per week) will be dedicated to your degree learning
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level 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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
We are a leading property consultancy firm with 12 offices across the UK, including Cambridge, Oxford & London, branching all the way through to Scotland, dealing with sectors including:
- Agency
- Built Environment
- Capital Markets
- Land & Development
- Property & Estate Management
- Commercial
- Energy & Climate
- Operational Living
- Planning
- Residential
- Rural
We’re a major player in the property sector, but we’re not like the big corporates. And we don’t want to be.
At Bidwells, we are driven by our mission to provide the UK’s most sustainable and innovative property advice. For over 185 years, we have been at the forefront of real estate and have expanded our influence from our Cambridge head office across the Golden Triangle and beyond.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the heart of our mission, focusing on rapidly growing sectors such as forestry, renewables, and sustainable investment. Our work in the natural capital markets positions us at the forefront of efforts to tackle the climate challenge through nature-based solutions, carbon sequestration, and environmental net gain. Equally active in the built environment we are helping clients decarbonise portfolios and bring forward sustainable development.
We are proud to be one of the first property consultancies to achieve B-Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
Benefits
We have more service streams than any other property consultancy, providing a range of career paths and lots of room to progress across our national office network.
We offer competitive salary packages, and the chance to benefit from the success of the business through our profit share schemes. We expect our people to enjoy working hard, so we actively encourage them to enjoy their time outside of work too. Social events have included nights out, a running club, cricket, rowing, rounders, hockey, summer parties and team events.
See our benefits page here:
https://www.bidwells.co.uk/work-with-us/benefits/
Apprenticeships
Our Apprenticeship programme allows talented individuals to build a successful career in real estate whilst gaining a salary, on the job and formal training as well as a recognised qualification at the end.
Across our business, we offer many Apprenticeships and Degree Apprenticeships, ranging from Accountancy to Chartered Surveying. Whatever your age and whatever your background, you could find working in real estate is the career for you!
For all apprenticeships, you will be given time off every week to study towards your qualification. Depending on your provider, taught sessions could be in person or online. You can also use your off-the-job learning time to conduct independent study!
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Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Health insurance
- Discretionary bonus
- Medicash scheme
- Modern and agile environment in which to work
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Training towards and completion of ATT qualification with progression through the business up to partner level
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
FIRST INTUITION CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014266.
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Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026
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