
Accounting Apprentice
- Location
Basingstoke - Employer
Woods Russell Limited - Provider
BPP Professional Apprenticeships - Wages
£20000 per annum - Level
Advanced Level 3 Apprenticeship - Apply by
Friday, November 21, 2025
Opportunity Details
Simple, honest, friendly, and uncomplicated.
Not the usual words you would associate with an accounting firm - but then, we like to think we are a little different.
Here at Woods Russell Accounting we offer much more than classic accounting services - we provide a chance for our clients to have a Chartered Accountant professional as part of their team - working alongside them, with a vested interest in building their business and with a passion to create success. We love what we do, because we see the results every day in the success of our clients. That feels really good.
We are looking for an Accounting Apprentice to join this growing team.
Working in a quiet office in central Basingstoke.
This is an exciting opportunity to work towards an AAT qualification as an Accounting Apprentice for a small growing firm of Chartered Accountants in Basingstoke. Due to the small nature of the firm, you will gain experience across a broad range of jobs within an accounting firm including; accounting, payroll, VAT, and tax.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Basic data entry of bank transactions, sales and supplier invoices into QuickBooks.
• Basic data entry of bank transactions, sales and supplier invoices into excel.
• Reconciling control accounts e.g. performing bank reconciliations, wages reconciliations etc.
• Preparing extended trial balances.
• Input of trial balance date into tax filer and preparing basic sets of accounts for the managing partner to review.
• Imputing payroll data into moneysoft and preparing draft payroll for the managing partner to review.
• Preparing draft VAT returns in QuickBooks and excel for the managing partner to review.
• Printing off final versions of accounts and binding accounts for the managing partner.
• Drafting minutes of meetings and dividend vouchers for the managing partner.
• Drafting self assessment tax returns for review.
• Drafting company tax calculations for review.
Kickstart Your Career!
Ready to kickstart your career? Check the key dates below and don’t miss your chance!
- Monday, October 13, 2025
- Friday, November 21, 2025
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- Monday, January 5, 2026
Skills Required
You will have computer literacy and a having a firm grasp of Maths and English is essential. You will need to be versatile and able to turn your hand to many various tasks. You will be working with cloud accounting software as well as dealing with a shoebox stuffed full of receipts!
Qualifications Required
GCSE's in English and Maths are essential
Training
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Personal Qualities
Desire to solve problems and work through them in a calm and rational way. If you like doing Sudoku, wordsearches or solving the mats problems, then you will probably enjoy being an accountant.
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We are a registered firm of Chartered Accountants and able to offer ACA Chartered Accountancy qualifications.
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