Accounts, Tax & Administration Assistant Apprenticeship
REVERBA LIMITED
Essex (SS9 1SP)
Closes in 5 days (Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 April 2025
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Summary
Are you looking for your first step into the world of Accountancy? Reverba have a fantastic opportunity for an apprentice to join their small busy boutique accounts and consultancy firm to undertake a varied role, including bookkeeping, tax, payroll, liaising with clients, organising, managing data and administration tasks.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Shifts to be confirmed between 9.00am - 5.30pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 May 2025
- 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
The ideal candidate will have a minimum grade 4 or higher in both maths and English language GCSEs, or equivalents. No previous accounting experience is necessary as full on-the-job training will be provided along with a full study package. The role may include travel to client’s premises in London and home counties.
We are looking for someone who is a can work independently and as part of a flexible small team and in particular very comfortable with remote video meetings. The individual will work closely with the main director. The individual will need good skills on general office computer packages, such as Word and Excel, as well as good verbal and written communication skills.
The firm’s recruitment process will be conducted based on merit and ability without discrimination of but not limited to race, religion, colour, gender, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status to ensure all applicants are treated equally.
Duties will include:
- Assisting in the preparation of accounts
- Dealing with basic book keeping
- Processing and paying invoices
- Recording receipts and payments and organising client’s data
- Preparing and checking ledger balances, reconciliations, and other monthly and yearly accounts
- Understanding double-entry journals
- Update time ledger systems
- Completing and submitting VAT returns
- Using computerised accounting systems
- General administration functions
- Monitoring workflow processes
- Filing, scanning, photocopying, and archiving
- Ensure that good practice, customer care, and health and safety are fully blended into day-to-day activities
Where you’ll work
Suite 4
Oriel House
53a Elm Road
Essex
SS9 1SP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Your training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
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.
Your training plan
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Presentation skills
- Patience
- Self-Motivated
- Prioritization
- Polite
Other requirements
You will need to have access to transport for this role, are you able to travel to work easily and is this affordable? Are you happy with a office job and are you motivated to work independently if required?
About this company
Reverba was established in 2000 and is a boutique consulting firm which provides wide range of services from accounting, bookkeeping, training, tax planning and implementation of quality procedures. We prepare accounts and tax returns for limited companies, partnerships and individuals and offer a wide range of other services.
After this apprenticeship
Possibility of permanent position for suitable and right candidate and further development.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Unies Mirza
contact@reverba.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000313646.
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Closes in 5 days (Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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