Accounting Assistant Apprentice

Type: Apprentice
Location: Staffordshire (WS14 9NW)

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

  • To support the Treasury/Finance Department
  • Help with reconciliations
  • Liaising with our galleries in supporting them with queries
  • Working on our ERP System which is Microsoft Dynamics
  • Have some good Excel skills
  • Supporting month end processes and procedures

Where you’ll work

De Montfort House
Europa Way
Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS14 9NW

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)


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What you’ll learn


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

  • AAT Level 2 Foundation in Accounting
  • Functional skills in math’s and English, if required
  • Classroom sessions one day every other week at PTP Training’s Walsall Centre

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C and above)
  • Maths (grade 4/C and 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
  • Customer care skills
  • Team working
  • Self-motivated
  • Willing to learn
  • Positive attitude
  • Good understanding of Excel
  • Positive phone manner

Other requirements

How will you travel to work?
Weekend cover

About this company

We work very closely with a group of prestigious independent galleries all over the country and this has been an immensely successful across the UK. The key to this successful partnership is the personal touch. DeMontfort is a people company and we feel strongly about the little details that make a big difference. This has led to the introduction of an ever-increasing range of services to strengthen our gallery partnerships, and in turn they rely on us not only for best-selling artwork, but also for a suite of support through marketing material, merchandising guidance, recruitment, sales training and even IT support.

https://www.demontfortfineart.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays
Employee benefit programme

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