Finance Apprentice (Harbottle & Lewis LLP)
HARBOTTLE & LEWIS LLP
LONDON (WC2R 0EX)
Closes on Friday 26 June 2026
Posted on 29 April 2026
Contents
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to begin their career across a variety of business services groups of a full service law firm.
- Wage
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£27,000 a year
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9.30am- 5.30pm. 1 hour for lunch.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 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
Duties include:
- Posting of daily cash received into the firm’s account for payment of invoices
- Liaising on a daily bases with the Revenue Control team for receipts received that are unallocated
- Posting of Land Registry, Court fees, Search Acumen and Companies house online portal invoices
- Monitoring and coding Revenue Control inbox
- Checking eBilling portals and preparing reports for Revenue Controller & Partners
- eBilling accruals
- Uploading eBills to various portals by LEDEs format or manually
- Monitoring and liaising with Lawyers to correct errored and temporary time
- Preparing debt packs to include excel report, opening new matters, drafting LBA
- Monitoring Debt Collection receipts
- Filing and administering remittance advices
- Updating new starter rates and maintaining spreadsheet
- Preparing daily cash update
- Preparing Cash forecast document
- Completing Vendor forms
- Annual leave cover for Revenue Controllers
- Dealing with simple queries
Where you'll work
7 SAVOY COURT
LONDON
WC2R 0EX
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
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Training schedule
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:
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
- Team working
- Written skills
- Workload management
- Completing tasks to deadlines
- Microsoft Office
- Word, Excel & Outlook.
- Proactive and friendly
- Can do attitude
- Adaptable
- Courteous and efficient
- Curious to learn and develop
- Professional and conscientious
- Strong comprehension skills
About this employer
Harbottle & Lewis is a full service law firm based in London's West End. Our clients range from start-ups to multinational companies, from household names to private individuals and their family offices. For over 70 years, we have acted for some of the most creative, talented and successful people, businesses and corporates, across all of their legal needs.
We are well known for our stand-out expertise in the Technology, Media and Entertainment sectors. This sector knowledge is very much in the DNA of our firm. But our capabilities spread far wider than that. Whether we are talking about wealth, relationships or information, our private capital expertise enables us to support our clients, as well as to help them successfully develop, grow and protect their assets.
We are an award winning law-firm and regularly poll highly in RollOnFriday's annual Best Law Firms to Work At survey. At Harbottle & Lewis everyone operates at the top of their discipline and we only hire people who share our clients' entrepreneurial values and focus on excellence.
After this apprenticeship
Whilst the role is a 24 month fixed term contract, if there is a suitable vacant position when the apprenticeship training concludes and the candidate has completed all of their required training, they will be considered as a potential candidate for the role. This is of course dependent on the needs of the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000029178.
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Closes on Friday 26 June 2026
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