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Supporting the HSE/CI Engineer with day-to-day administrative duties. Opportunities to learn and develop health and safety and continuous improvement knowledge.
Maybe required to work in other areas of the plant
ACTIVITIES
- Support preparation of Plant budgets and monthly forecasts
- Support monthly sales analysis and P&Ls with commentary on variances to budgets and forecasts, with specific focus on selling price movements
- Sales mix variance
- BOM changes
- Stock adjustments
- Scrap variances
- Purchase price movements
- Material usage variances
- Maintain BOM costings
- Escalate GRNI issues with cost controller
- Monitor stock levels
- Weekly sales analysis and adhoc analysis of P&Ls
- Overhead variances
- Direct and indirect labour variances
- Support with direct and indirect labour variances
- Work with operations & finance teams on purchase to pay
- Work with commercial/project finance teams to monitor price movement
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Where you'll work
Westminster Industrial Estate Huntingdon Way Measham Swadlincote DE12 7DS
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NORTH WARWICKSHIRE AND SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE COLLEGE
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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.
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Training schedule
Day release to North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College - Nuneaton campus.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade 4 or above)
- Science (grade 4 or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab). To develop within the business and to progress onto a Level 3 apprenticeship.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NORTH WARWICKSHIRE AND SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE COLLEGE Gaynor Catlow gaynor.catlow@nwslc.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000050106. Closes in 18 days (Sunday 13 September 2026 at 11:59pm) Sign in or create an account
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