Level 4 Accountant Apprentice; Dispute Service LTD

Summary

Working directly with and assisting the TDS Finance Function with the daily routines. The role is office‑based in Hemel Hempstead.

£19,747 a year

Professional accounting technician (level
4)

Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm. 35 hours a week

Monday 1 June 2026

1 year 6 months

2

In this Job description, "TDS" means "The Dispute Service Ltd" and "EWC" means "England and Wales Custodial finance area".

Assisting with:

• Chasing Clients and reduction of Unable to Pay
• Preparation of Daily Imports for the EWC Finance team
• Imports allocation via "push‑throughs"
• Invoice Inputting
• Payment runs
• Processing of personal expenses
• Purchase Ledger processing
• Various tasks to free up team's time to enable Government KPI compliance, including providing support for cost analysis and balance sheet reconciliations

Other:

• Use initiative to achieve targeted results, while promoting customer goodwill
• Handle queries and resolve problems within company guidelines and policy
• Question existing systems and propose improvements

The Maylands Building
Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate
Hemel Hempstead
HP2 7TG

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You'll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

• Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
• Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
• Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
• Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
• Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
• Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
• Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a "right first time approach".
• Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
• Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non‑finance stakeholders.
• Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you'll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

• 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…