Accounts /Finance Assistant Apprentice
Frost Accountants
Exeter (EX2 5WS)
Closes in 19 days (Friday 28 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 6 August 2026
Contents
Summary
An opportunity to start to your Accountancy career & cover a range of accounting/ bookkeeping functions, including assisting payroll team & getting involved in bookkeeping transactions for clients & drafting their VAT returns. Potential for progressing to subsequent qualifications & membership of the AAT.
- Wage
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£16,000 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Regular pay reviews if goals being achieved
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.30pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 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
As an apprentice accounts assistant, you will work as part of a team assisting with clients’ accounting needs.
This position involves a number of different aspects including:
Preparing year-end accounts for a diverse client base, including limited companies, partnerships, and sole traders across the UK and further afield
Managing VAT
Conducting bookkeeping for limited companies, sole traders, and partnerships
Gain experience with company secretarial services
Progressively assume more significant responsibilities and deepen your technical knowledge
During your training you will be expected to develop an understanding of the practical issues involved in delivering a high quality service to clients.
Assignments will be undertaken both in the office and at client's premises. Trainees will have support and on the job training from managers and other senior staff.
Where you'll work
Tourism House
Pynes Hill
Exeter
EX2 5WS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Record transactional data.
- Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues, such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
- Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
- Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
- Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience, and different media methods, with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
- Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Record transactional data.
- Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues, such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
- Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
- Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
- Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience, and different media methods, with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
- Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
Training schedule
You will undertake the “Accounts / Finance Assistant” Apprenticeship (an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Accounting), with full support from Accountancy Learning as part of their Flexible Apprenticeship Programme.
Assessment will be by an “End Point Assessment”, which will include the following two elements:
A Structured Interview. This will consist of 10 questions asked by an AAT Independent Assessor. It will last 60 minutes and will be performed remotely via the AAT on-line video portal. The questions will allowing you to to display the knowledge and experience you have obtained over your apprenticeship. You will build a Portfolio of reflections and product evidence that will be used to support your answers to these 10 questions.
An In-tray Test. This will be undertaken under exam conditions and will last 105 minutes. It will be based on what you have studied in your AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting.
Successful completion of the AAT (Level 2) Foundation Certificate in Accounting is a mandatory element of the Accounts / Finance Assistant Apprenticeship. Your Apprenticeship will therefore include formal studies towards this qualification. It is anticipated that your apprenticeship duration will be for 15 months, although earlier completion is possible, provided the duration exceeds one year and a week.
You will receive support from both the employer, and the training provider, to complete and achieve your Apprenticeship and will be given time to study during the week on a day release basis. As you are working towards a professional qualification, it is also expected that you will continue your studies outside of normal office hours.
As you learn more in both the office and in your studies your responsibilities, and the variety of tasks you undertake, are expected to increase.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Another 3 Subjects (grade 9-5(A-C))
- English (grade 9-5(A-C))
- Mathematics (grade 9-5(A-C))
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
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Literacy Skills
- Professional
- Proficient in Word & Excel
About this employer
Frost Accountants is a regional accountancy firm with offices in Exeter, Okehampton and Totnes. As we enter a phase of significant growth, we are seeking a motivated individual to join our Exeter office. We deliver professional accountancy and business advisory services that have been designed to ensure that business owners save time and money. We gather a complete understanding of your business and help you to focus on achieving your goals. We specialise in advising on corporate, personal income and capital tax strategies. With particular expertise in tax planning for buying and selling businesses, corporate restructuring and cash extraction. Our approach will provide tax saving strategies for entrepreneurs and their companies which link seamlessly to both commercial and personal goals. If you're ambitious and eager to start your career with a local chartered accountancy firm with a strong commitment to employee development, we want to hear from you.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
It is expected that you will stay with the company following successful completion of your apprenticeship to undertake further qualifications and increase your responsibility in the office.
As an apprentice with Frost Accountants , you'll refine administration, record-keeping, and communication abilities while contributing to the firm's expansion. Due to this expansion, there are regular opportunities for promotion into, and development of, newly created roles in the business. You will be perfectly placed to take advantage of these opportunities due to the firm’s culture of ‘growing our own’ and promoting from within.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
Vicky Conibear
vicky@accountancylearning.ac.uk
01392 435349
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000046763.
Apply now
Closes in 19 days (Friday 28 August 2026 at 11:59pm)