Trainee – Business Outsourcing Apprentice

Salary: £26,000 per year

Opportunity to take 6 month FTC and gain invaulable experience in accounts preparation with the view to training for AAT and begining your career in accounting.

Business Outsourcing Apprentice – About The Role

Depending on the focus of your local team responsibilities should include:

* Maintain records for our clients using various accounting software packages including Xero, Quickbooks and Sage 50

* Use cloud accounting tools to process transactions, prepare and post journals, update ledgers, perform bank reconciliation and cash book analysis as required to complete monthly reporting processes

* Prepare both management and statutory accounts for clients under the supervision of more senior members of the team

* Undertake financial close procedures eg reconciliation of inter-company balances, preparation of journals and schedules

* Produce statutory accounts under both UK GAAP and IFRS for review by managers including working on consolidations and cash flows

* Applies understanding of the client to ensure the transactions are recorded appropriately, and make commercial sense, and highlight unusual transactions to senior members of the team for consideration.

* Develop a basic knowledge of the rules and regulations of doing business in the UK included reporting requirements, tax requirements (employment, corporate and VAT), filing requirements from a company secretarial perspective and general commercial awareness

* Work as part of a team to provide ad-hoc accounting assistance and ensure clients receive excellent service

* If taken on permanently after 6 months study towards your professional qualification and, where relevant, corresponding apprenticeship.

The successful Business Outsourcing Aprenticewill have:

* Three A-levels or equivalent at A* to C excluding General Studies and Extended Projects (obtained or predicted)

* A* to C in Maths and English at GCSE/Scottish Standards or equivalent (non-UK qualifications also considered)

* Highly organised & dilligent

* Excelent communiation skills written & verbal

* Excellent attention to detail

Trainee 6 month FTC – Benefits

Excellent Benefits include Training, agile working conditions

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics. Due to the high volume of applications we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful.

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