Accounts Apprentice

Type: Apprentice
Region: East Midlands

Our Mission

At Inspired Villages, we’re driven by our purpose to build real communities, which enhance the lives of our residents every single day. We are backed by a joint venture partnership between Legal & General PLC and NatWest Group Pension Trustee Limited and are on course to significantly transform the later life experience in the UK with a commitment to expand our portfolio to 34 retirement villages, which equates to around 8,000 age-appropriate homes for retirees. We offer our residents, as well as our colleagues, the best years of their lives.

Purpose of the Role

The Accounts Apprentice will assist in a variety of different duties within the Finance Team to help further your skills and knowledge towards your apprenticeship. You will have good attention to detail, while forming an understanding of basic accounting and using different accounting systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Running reports and saving correctly
• Processing accounts payable invoices
• Completing credit application forms
• Communicating with the wider finance team on a day-to-day basis
• Assisting with cash book reconciliations
• Supporting with trial balance reviews
• Helping with any audit requests
• Assisting in any finance admin duties including filing, scanning and cheque processing
• Working across all areas of finance to gain an in-depth knowledge of the wider function

Any other adhoc duties as and when required from the Accounts Payable Manager, Income Supervisor or Head of Financial Operations.

Experience:

• No previous experience is required for this role, a willingness to learn and conduct yourself well in an office environment.

Skills:

• Able to communicate face to face, via email and telephone
• A good understanding of Microsoft packages including Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Qualifications:

• You will be working towards your AAT Level 2 or equivalent

Our Values

Be Inspired – Be an expert in what you do and be an inspiration to those around you. Love what we do and why we do it.

Courage – dream big, make the tough decisions and follow them through. We’re not frightened to make mistakes and we learn fast.

Straight-Forward & Straight-Talking – we keep things simple; we don’t waffle.

Stronger Together – with our residents and each other; we succeed when we work together. There’s always time for a cup of tea and a chat to make things better.

Deliver – we keep our promises to deliver the right results. We don’t do average.