Summary
A great opportunity to start to your career in Accountancy and will cover a range of accounting and bookkeeping functions, including getting involved in performing day to day bookkeeping transactions for clients and drafting their VAT returns. For the successful candidate there will be the potential for progressing to subsequent qualifications.
Wage
£15,000 a year
£15,000-£18,000 per annum
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Thursday from 9.00am to 5.15pm & Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm with an hour for lunch.
36 hours a week
Start date
Monday 30 June 2025
Duration
1 year 2 months
Positions available
2
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
A broad range of accounting and finance tasks will be undertaken providing experience across our activities. Tasks at some point would include:
* Accounts preparation and bookkeeping
* Matching the bank feeds
* Month-end journals
* Understanding the various accounting software in use
* VAT returns
* Payroll
* Personal tax
* Business tax
* General admin, including a lot of ad-hoc duties, assisting the owners in both administration, finance and other duties, getting to really know the business.
Where you’ll work
21 ANGEL HILL
TIVERTON
EX16 6PE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
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
You will undertake the Level 2 “Accounts / Finance Assistant” Apprenticeship (an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Accounting), with full support from Accountancy Learning as part of their Flexible Apprenticeship Programme.
This is a blended learning experience for apprentices which incorporates multiple teaching methods to suit the learning styles of our apprentices. We have on demand learning materials that can be accessed at any time alongside face-to-face contact with a personal tutor either via Microsoft teams, or at one of our college sites once a week.
The other four days a week will be spent in the office where you will undertake further practical and theoretical training.
More training information
Where candidates have already achieved AAT Level 2 or equivalent, a higher level apprenticeship may be considered.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* a minimum of 5 subjects including English & Maths (grade 9 - 5 (A* - C))
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
* 2 subjects (grade A - C)
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
* Customer care skills
* Team working
* Accuracy
* Excel skills
Other requirements
How will you get to the office in Tiverton? If local to Tiverton how will you get to Accountancy Learning in Exeter?