Accounts Associate apprentice
BK PLUS LIMITED
Birmingham (B3 1PX)
Closes in 11 days (Sunday 18 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 October 2026
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Summary
We are currently recruiting for an Apprentice to join our Accounts team based in Birmingham. The role will see you gain your AAT qualification followed by your ACCA qualification and give you exposure to the full accounts process.
- Wage
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£15,184 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.
Friday, 8.00am - 3.00pm.
30 mins unpaid lunch break.
36 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 November 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
Key responsibilities:
- Accounts preparation. Assist in preparing year end accounts for sole traders, partnerships, and small limited companies.
- Bookkeeping. Maintain accurate financial records, process transactions, and reconcile accounts.
- VAT returns. Support the preparation and submission of VAT returns.
- Client communication. Respond to client queries and request missing information.
- Administrative duties — Filing, scanning, organising client documents, and supporting the wider team.
- Software use. Work with cloud accounting systems such as Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage.
Where you'll work
The Counting House
61 Charlotte Street
Birmingham
B3 1PX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C or above)
- Maths (grade 4/C or above)
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
Other requirements
Please note you will be required to attend our Sutton Coldfield College for your college lessons once a week.
About this employer
We’re supporting businesses in our community, with the strength of a national network behind us. Our teams combine local knowledge with wider expertise, giving you real responsibility, direct client experience and the opportunity to make an impact from day one, while building a long-term career in a relationship-led business.
https://bkplus.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
What we offer:
- Death in service (4x salary)
- 24 hour access to a GP
- Access to a EV Scheme
- Access to a Cycle to work scheme
- Access to a discount platform
- Access to an EAP system
- Employee Referral Scheme
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
This apprenticeship provides a strong foundation for a long-term career in accountancy, with the opportunity for the successful apprentice to progress onto the ACCA professional qualification and work towards becoming a fully qualified accountant.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
Mehr-un Nisa
recruitment@bmet.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000057229.
Apply now
Closes in 11 days (Sunday 18 October 2026 at 11:59pm)