Accounts Trainee AAT

Salary: £26,000 per year

Our client is a successful accountancy practice now seeking ambitious Accountant Trainees to work in their busy outsourcing team. Their training programmes will give you all the training and support you need to reach your goals, providing you with a future career backed with the skills development and experience to become a successful business advisor.

You will need to be prepared to study in your own time too in order to make sure that you get the most from your studies and of course to achieve exam success. Alongside this you will be developing your skills and knowledge by undertaking a wide range of work in the office, as well as development sessions as part of the trainee programme. Over the course of the programme you will cover a full range of business advisory and accounts work, which will both reinforce and enhance your studies and help you to achieve your goal of becoming a qualified accountant and successful business advisor. Our client can offer excellent study support and a great work environment.

Your role:

• Coding trial balance and inserting into accounting software to generate lead schedules for file
• Review of client books to support the lead schedules
• Post journals, updating prepayments, accrual and depreciations
• Purchase / sales ledger and processing invoices / bookkeeping
• Binding file accounts and sorting client copies
• Collating tax self-assessment papers
• Processing expenses payments, sales invoices, credit control and month end duties
• Preparing account / audit files as part of audit process
• Engaging with clients to understand their systems and processes in order to address client queries. 10. Data entry and file management
• Office administration and other miscellaneous office tasks

The person:

• Eagerness to study AAT or already embarked on AAT studies
• Highly professional
• Articulate communicator
• Keen to apply yourself to studies