Finance Assistant Apprentice (Blink Brow Bar Ltd)

BLINK BROW BAR LIMITED

London (W1U 3SB)

Closes in 14 days (Friday 1 May 2026)

Posted on 15 April 2026


Summary

The role of the Finance Assistant is to provide support to the Management Accountant and Head of Finance to maintain an efficient and accurate accounting function for Blink Brow Bar Ltd.

Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 09:30 - 17:30

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 25 May 2026

Duration

1 year 4 months

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

  • Purchase and Sales ledger: managing all transactional finance processing; including weekly Concession and Wholesaler invoicing
  • Cash management: assisting with expense requests, credit control and payments
  • Reporting: preparing VAT returns, summarising data for internal and external reports
  • Managing day-to-day accounting in an entrepreneurial environment; including resolving internal and external queries
  • Assisting with producing monthly Management Accounts up to Trial Balance
  • Assisting with preparation of Year End accounts
  • Providing support to the Management Accountant and Head of Finance

Requirements:

  • Prior experience with bookkeeping and accounting procedures
  • Familiar with Microsoft Office. Strong Excel skills essential
  • Experience using bookkeeping software. SAGE 50 Accounts desirable
  • Strong analytical skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritise workload to meet deadlines
  • Works well under pressure in a dynamic environment
  • Proactive self-starter able to work independently and within a team
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships both cross-functionally and with senior management

Where you'll work

128 Wigmore Street
London
W1U 3SB

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

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

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

A Level in:

A-Levels (grade 9 to 4 (A* to C))

Other in:

Accounts (grade Level 2)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Team working
  • Experience with bookkeeping
  • Accounting procedures
  • Familiar with Microsoft Office
  • Strong Excel skills essential
  • Strong analytical skills
  • High level of accuracy
  • Prioritise workload
  • Meet deadlines
  • Ability to multi-task
  • Proactive self-starter
  • Able to work independently

About this employer

Established over 20 years ago, Blink Brow Bar (BBB) brought the ancient Indian art of threading to the masses and pioneered the modern movement of the walk-in beauty bar. In this time, BBB have established themselves as the go-to industry leading experts in brows.

BBB now operate 15 brow bars in the UK. In addition to the brow bars, BBB also create, produce and sell their own beauty products in the brow bars, online, and via wholesale partnerships.

Company benefits

Pension/Benefits:

  • Employer pension contribution 3%
  • Beauty product allowance, and discounted treatments

After this apprenticeship

  • This will be a permanent role on completion of apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000025777.

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Closes in 14 days (Friday 1 May 2026)

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