Average Apprentice Accountant salary in City of London

Job Title: AP Apprentice Location: Norwich (with occasional travel to London) Working Pattern:  Hybrid  Qualification Pathway: AAT Apprenticeship About the Role We're looking for an AP Apprentice to join a small, friendly finance team based in Norwich. This is an excellent opportunity for someone new to finance who is keen to learn, enjoys working with numbers, and wants to build a long-term career in the field. You'll initially focus on Accounts Payable (AP), supporting day-to-day finance operations. As you develop in the role, you'll also gain exposure to Accounts Receivable (AR), giving you a strong foundation across transactional finance. You'll receive hands-on training, support from the wider finance team, and mentorship from other apprentices, with formal study delivered by an on-site training provider. On completion of the apprenticeship, you will be AAT qualified. Key Responsibilities Supporting the Accounts Payable function, including invoice processing and supplier queriesMaintaining accurate financial recordsAssisting with Accounts Receivable tasks as the role developsWorking closely with the finance team to meet deadlinesLearning finance and accounting best practices through on-the-job training and study What We're Looking For A genuine interest in starting a career in finance and working with numbersStrong Maths skills and confidence with detailA minimum of Grade 4 (or equivalent) in English, Maths, and ScienceA positive attitude, willingness to learn, and comfort working in the office full-time initially Why Join? A structured apprenticeship leading to AAT qualificationExposure to both AP and ARSupportive environment with mentoring from experienced apprenticesOpportunity to build confidence, skills, and a long-term finance career Application Process As part of your application, a cover letter is required. Please explain why you are interested in an apprenticeship and, in particular, why you want to pursue a career in finance.

Are you a fully ACA or ACCA Qualified Accounts Senior or Business Services Senior, either recently qualified or with up to 2 years PQE, looking to upgrade to a modern and entrepreneurial Top 30 Accountancy practice firm based in an easily accessible location in the City (Zone 1 Central London)? Are you looking for a role which includes preparing both statutory accounts AND management accounts? Are you looking to gain exposure to a wide range of clients from different sectors, including Property, Financial Services, Technology, Media, Retail, Renewable Energy, Law and other interesting sectors, split between growing SME’s to large listed international groups? Are you looking for a role which is a mixture of Statutory Accounts, Management Accounts, Corporation Tax returns and a large number of advisory projects? If so, this large and well established Top 30 accountancy practice is looking to recruit a fully ACA or ACCA Qualified Accounts Senior due to impressive growth over the last few years. Your role will be varied and will include preparing Statutory Accounts from start to finish, monthly and quarterly Management Accounts, Corporation Tax returns and offering clients advise on things like how to improve their business, investment opportunities and various analysis projects. You will also get the chance to work on other areas of accountancy and many one off advisory based projects. Your role will be varied and challenging, and training will be provided where necessary. You will work in a newly created role that will provide you with many growth opportunities in the future including the chance to be promoted to Manager grade in a short space of time. The firm offer hybrid working and you will work 3 days in the office and 2 days from home as well as flexible working hours. To be considered for this newly created role (January 2026) you will be a fully ACA Qualified or ACCA Qualified Accounts Senior, Senior Accountant or Business Services Senior, either newly qualified or with 1 to 2 years of post-qualified experience. You will currently be working for a UK based practice firm with experience of the above duties, particularly preparing statutory accounts and management accounts from start to finish. You will probably be working in a small or medium size firm in a mixed general practice role and be looking to upgrade to a better quality and larger firm with better support, training and structures in place as well as work with more interesting and high profile clients. This growing Top 30 accountancy firm has a great reputation for being a friendly and supportive place to work and providing their staff with challenging and varied roles. The firm has a real family feel, with a very low staff turnover and staff always have successful long term careers at the firm. You will work in a friendly and growing team, and you can expect to work on an interesting array of clients from a wide range of industries. The firm is growing at a rapid rate due to many new business wins from other accountancy firms and international competitors. Overall this is a unique opportunity for a fully qualified Senior Accountant, Accounts Senior or Business Services Senior from a practice background to join a good quality, modern and growing accountancy firm based in a Central London location and carry out a high profile accounts & advisory based role with great support and genuine career progression on offer.

Are you an ACA or ACCA Qualified Accounts Senior, Outsourcing Senior or Business Services Senior with experience of management accounts and statutory accounts preparations? Are you looking to upgrade a Top 30 Accountancy firm where you will be fully trained so you can work on high profile clients, many from the rewarding financial services and FCA regulated sectors? Are you from an accountancy firm background and looking to join a very good quality, modern City based accountancy firm with over 600 staff in a hands on role with high levels of responsibility? Are you looking for a role where you will have a great opportunity to progress to Manager grade in a short space of time? Are you looking to work on a wide variety of both UK and international clients, as well as achieve a good work life balance for such a large firm? If so, this growing Top 30 accountancy practice firm based in a prime location in London is looking to recruit a new Accounts Senior due to impressive growth over the last few years and winning new clients from larger firms. Based in a friendly and supportive team, you will work with a range of interesting clients but the majority will be financial services based. Full training will be provided. Your role will be hands on and mainly preparing work yourself but will also include an element of reviewing work and supervising juniors. Your role will be bias towards management accounts but will also include statutory accounts preparations, Vat returns, corporation tax returns and other ad hoc duties and advisory projects. You will also have the chance to work closely with clients in setting up and implementing new software packages (such as Xero) as well as new systems, processes and controls. Your role will be advisory based, varied, challenging, and training will be provided where necessary. The firm offers hybrid working – allowing all staff to work one day a week from home and flexible start / finish times.To be considered for this new role (January 2026) you must be either ACCA or ACA Qualified, either newly qualified or up to 2 yeas PQE. You must be working for a good quality practice firm, likely a small or medium in size and you must have experience of preparing management accounts and ideally statutory accounts too. You must have experience of FRS 102 and using a disclosure checklist when preparing accounts. You must also have experience managing junior staff, reviewing their work and providing feedback. It would also be an advantage if you had experience of financial services clients / FCA regulated clients, but a strong interest in this area is fine. You must now be looking to upgrade to a large practice based in a City location in Central London where you can continue with your accountancy career, work on an interesting client base and receive top training, support and future progression to Manager grade on offer.This growing Top 30 accountancy firm has a great reputation for being a friendly and supportive place to work and providing their staff with challenging and varied roles. You will work in a friendly and growing Business Services Department, and you can expect to work on an interesting array of clients from a wide range of industries, particularly those in the financial services sectors. The department is growing at a rapid rate due to many new business wins from larger accountancy firms. Overall this is a unique opportunity for a fully qualified Accounts Senior or Business Services Senior who wants to carry out a management accounts bias role in a leading London accountancy firm with great support, variety of work, hybrid / flexi working and genuine progression on offer.