Summary
Luxury Leisure are offering a fantastic apprentice opportunity for someone wanting to kick start a career in finance, within a market leading leisure company. The position is based at their head office, in a beautifully modern building with an onsite gym, situated along the Team Valley, Gateshead.
Wage
£16,000 a year
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. 37.5 hrs per week.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Monday 7 April
Duration
1 year
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
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to gain experience in finance whilst working towards a recognised AAT qualification.
Luxury Leisure are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual to join their friendly and professional team, who will fully support the apprentice throughout their apprenticeship.
The purpose of this role is to provide effective support to the rest of Finance team and to undertake various finance based tasks
• To complete daily bank statement reconciliations.
• Processing personal expenses & credit card statements accurately and efficiently.
• Maintaining a log of weekly banking summaries, ensuring all updates and amendments are completed
• Update ATM & PDQ reconciliation
• Ensure all spreadsheets are reconciled for month end deadlines
• Assist with processing of invoices
• To cover and assist with Reception & Admin duties such as booking hotels, travel & meeting rooms, managing post, answering phone calls and other office duties
Strong IT skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office are essential for this role.
This list of duties is not exhaustive and other tasks may be required.
Probationary period applies.
Where you’ll work
Fifth Avenue Plaza
Team Valley
Gateshead
NE11 0BL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ACCESS TRAINING 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
Attend Access Training on a fortnightly basis.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade 4)
* Maths (grade 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
* Organisation skills
* Team working
* Initiative
Other requirements
Please ensure that you can travel to the Team Valley for a 09.00am start. Candidates must be able to attend fortnightly day release sessions for the AAT level 2 Apprenticeship at Access Training on Team Valley, Gateshead.