Summary
This is a great opportunity to start to your career in Accountancy will cover a range of accounting and bookkeeping functions, including performing day to day bookkeeping transactions for clients and drafting their VAT returns. There is the potential to progress to further qualifications & membership of the Association of Accounting Technicians.
Wage
£13,741 to £22,222.20 a year
Wage paid weekly.
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm - lunch 12.30pm to 1.30pm
35 hours a week
Possible start date
Tuesday 1 April
Duration
1 year 3 months
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
A broad range of accounting and finance tasks will be undertaken providing experience across our activities. Tasks at some point would include:
• Data entry for the weekly and monthly client payrolls.
• Processing purchase Ledger invoices.
• Supplier payments.
• Reconciling suppler statements.
• Maintaining supplier records.
• Sales invoicing.
• Maintaining customer records.
• Processing company credit card statements.
• Processing staff expenses.
• Matching the bank feeds.
• Month-end journals.
• Understanding the various accounting software in use.
• 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
6 QUEEN STREET
LOSTWITHIEL
PL22 0AB
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
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 “Accounts / Finance Assistant” Apprenticeship (an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Accounting), with full support from Accountancy Learning as part of their Flexible Apprenticeship Programme.
Assessment will be by an “End Point Assessment”, which will include the following two elements:
• A Structured Interview. This will consist of 10 questions asked by an AAT Independent Assessor. It will last 60 minutes and will be performed remotely via the AAT on-line video portal. The questions will allowing you to to display the knowledge and experience you have obtained over your apprenticeship.
• You will build a Portfolio of reflections and product evidence that will be used to support your answers to these 10 questions.
Successful completion of the AAT (Level 2) Foundation Certificate in Accounting is a mandatory element of the Accounts / Finance Assistant Apprenticeship. Your Apprenticeship will therefore include formal studies towards this qualification. It is anticipated that your apprenticeship duration will be for 15 months, although earlier completion is possible, provided the duration exceeds one year and a week.
You will receive support from both the employer, and the training provider, to complete and achieve your Apprenticeship and will be given time to study during the week on a day release basis. As you are working towards a professional qualification, it is also expected that you will continue your studies outside of normal office hours.
As you learn more in both the office and in your studies, your responsibilities and the variety of tasks you undertake are expected to increase.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* 3 other subjects (grade 9-5 (A-C))
* English (grade 9-5(A-C))
* Maths (grade 9-5 (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
* Attention to detail
* Team working
* Positive attitude
* Accuracy
* Highly Competent Excel skills
* Strong customer service ethos
Other requirements
Position is based in our office in Lostwithiel. The town has good bus and rail links and a free car park. We are a very small team in a quiet office.