Summary
You will be joining a friendly, welcoming and relaxed environment which is home to the largest selection of branded promotional products in the UK! This is the perfect opportunity to kick-start your career in accounting, and you may even get merchandise from the suppliers
Wage
£14,722.50 a year
Pay increase to £7.55 from April 2025
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Monday 5 May
Duration
1 year 3 months
Positions available
1
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
* Check for payments that are coming into the company accounts
* Check invoices and cross check against system to make sure they match- check for discrepancies
* Excel, working and recording payments, expenses and checking invoices
* Liaising with suppliers, checking payments and remittances
* Dealing with deliveries and post out with a courier
* Ad hoc administrative tasks, supporting the credit control function
* Managing refunds - when trained
* Emptying bins
* Dealing with the directors expenses (Personal and business/company)
* Tasks that need Xero (sending and publishing invoices via Xero.)
* Dealing with supplier forms etc.
Where you’ll work
Unit E3, Leicester Business Centre
111 Ross Walk
Leicester
LE4 5HH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
E-CAREERS EDUCATION LIMITED
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
Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard:
* Level 2 AAT qualification
* All training is undertaken online, through a combination of self-paced eLearning and live online classes
* Functional skills in English and maths, if required
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* Maths & English (grade C/4)
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
* Attention to detail
* Number skills
* Patience
* Self-motivated
* Manage with dips in workload
Other requirements
- UK Residency (MUST have lived in the UK for 3 years+) - Some office/admin experience (Desired) - Apprenticeships are very demanding; you’re working towards a qualification whilst working full time! You’ll need to be committed and motivated as there is lots of self-guided work involved. - Are you happy with the role, company, and qualification? - Can you commit to the timeframe? - Have you considered how you will travel to the location & the time this will take? - Do you meet the eligibility criteria? (GCSE Maths & English 4 or above & UK Residency) - Can you start immediately, or do you have other commitments such as education or work?