Apprentice Accounts Assistant

Type: Apprentice
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Fred Olsen Travel was established in 1988 with family values at its heart and knowledgeable staff across the board. As one of the UK’s most established travel companies, Fred. Olsen Travel provides outstanding customer service, choice and value for money through our six distinct specialisms, covering land, river and sea to go along with the multiple high street travel agencies dotted around East Anglia and the South Coast. Fred. Olsen Travel is also the UK general sales agents for Star Clippers, Amadeus River Cruises and American Cruise Lines. Our mission is to be a world class provider of travel products and services with a reputation for outstanding customer service, unrivalled choice, exceptional quality and value for money. Based in our Ipswich Head Office, the Accounts Department have an exciting opportunity for an Apprentice to join their friendly and supportive team. Full in-house training will be provided to the successful candidate whilst working towards the Level 2 AAT qualification. We are keen to hear from candidates with a positive can-do attitude, with an interest in Accounts and passion for Travel. We continue to go from strength to strength and are looking to recruit an Apprentice to join us and start their career in the Accounts and Travel industry. The successful candidate will need to have a basic understanding of Microsoft Office Programmes (including Excel) and be IT literate. You will work closely with team members to be trained on the basic aspects of the department, whilst working towards a nationally recognised qualification. It is therefore important that you are eager to learn and a motivated individual.

Initially you will be trained on the following: Learning the booking and financial systems

Reconcile Direct Debits

Coding and registering purchase ledger invoices

Process Travel-ledger payments for authorisation

Process Purchase Ledger BACS payment for authorisation

Assisting the Purchase and Sales Ledger Manager/Staff with ad-hoc jobs when required With experience the above duties will be added to in line with your training and qualification.

This is a full-time position working 35 hours per week (Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm)

This is an Apprenticeship; the successful candidate will work towards the AAT Level 2 qualification which has an estimated course duration of 12 months, this would be delivered by a local training provider and it would therefore be required to attend a day release to College once a week. The rest of the time you would be based at our Head Office (Fred Olsen House, 42 White House Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5LL)

Attached to this advert you will find a detailed Job Profile and an overview of the staff benefits we offer.

Our values are:

Customer Driven: We strive to look through the lens of each customer to ensure we continuously put their needs and expectations at the heart of everything we do.

Valuing Diversity: We believe differing views and experiences make us stronger. By working to create a representative and inclusive business, we can deliver the right solution to our customers in the right way.

Investing in people: We believe that by continuously seeking to grow personally and professionally develop our people, we can improve our future today.

Winning Together: We deliver our best outcomes and results when we all pull in the same direction, creating a positive team spirit where people feel valued, support each other and share in success together.

Doing the right thing: We pride ourselves on doing what is right and building trust in every situation with our people, customers and community.

Fred. Olsen Travel offers a range of company benefits including BUPA medical, Life Assurance, discounted holidays and cruises plus retail discounts and cash back incentives through our MyBenefits scheme.

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.