Summary
We're excited to offer an opportunity for an Accounts Assistant, enabling you to further your career by gaining a fully funded AAT qualification. The role will combine full-time work in our experienced finance team with self-study & college lectures; allowing you to build your foundation knowledge in accounting.
Annual wage
£20,000 a year
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5.30pm.
40 hours a week
Possible start date
Saturday 1 March
Duration
1 year
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
* Maintain and post to the general ledger, including bank reconciliations
* Raising company invoices & distribution of invoices
* Ensuring supplier invoices are correctly coded and posted to the ledger
* Balance sheet reconciliations
* Suspense account analysis
* Prepare, update and reconcile intercompany accounts
* Assist in the month end preparation of management accounts
* Prepare external returns including VAT and ONS
* Cover ad-hoc financial duties and support other team members
Where you’ll work
Piper House
West Place
West Road
Harlow
CM20 2GY
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
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
On the job training at our Head Office in Harlow. Training will be provided by each member of the finance team covering their role requirements, to allow full understanding of each role & how they integrate with each other. The following training will be provided: Sage200, Compleat Software, Tesseract.
You may be required to complete the AAT Level 2 course outside of normal working hours, depending on the course chosen and level of home study required. We have partnered with Hertford Regional College to deliver the apprenticeship. Applicants should hold a full driving licence and have regaular access to a vehicle.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* Maths & English (grade Level 4/Grade C or above)
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
* Problem solving skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative