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Accounts Apprentice
The Accounts Apprentice role sits within the finance team at WGC Ltd and covers the purchase ledger, sales ledger, credit control, banking, and management reporting. The role provides practical experience across the finance department while the postholder works towards the AAT Level 3 qualification as part of their apprenticeship.
What you'll do at work
Purchase and sales ledger
- Enter invoices and payments accurately onto the accounting software
- Process purchase invoices and check them against orders and delivery notes
- Process sales invoices and send them to customers on time
- Help to answer supplier and customer queries about invoices and payments
Banking and credit control
- Help with bank reconciliations, checking that transactions match bank statements
- Support the credit control process, including chasing overdue payments under guidance
- Keep accurate, up-to-date financial records and filing systems
Reporting and month-end
- Prepare and update spreadsheets in Excel to support reporting
- Support the team with month-end and year-end preparation, including audit requests
- Carry out ad hoc analysis and reporting as asked by the finance team
- Handle general finance administration, including scanning, filing, and data checks
Learning and development
- Attend all AAT training days and complete coursework and assessments on time
- Apply learning from the course to day-to-day work in the finance team
- Meet regularly with the line manager and training provider to review progress
Shared responsibilities
- Work safely at all times, follow health and safety procedures, and report hazards, near misses, and incidents promptly
- Report any concern about the welfare or safety of a colleague immediately, in line with company procedure
- Embed equality, diversity, and inclusion in everything the role touches, and challenge discrimination, bullying, and harassment wherever it is encountered
- Keep accurate, complete, and timely records, and meet audit, confidentiality, and data protection requirements
- Treat information about colleagues, clients, and suppliers as confidential and handle it lawfully
- Take part in training and development, and keep skills and knowledge current
- Act as a professional ambassador for WGC Ltd and the wider group, and follow company policies and procedures at all times
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Where you'll work
7 Academy Buildings
Fanshaw Street
London
N1 6LQ
Training provider
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation of, and response to, financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements, and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve, or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using a range of approaches and media, with an understanding of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
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Training schedule
The Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship standard includes 6 AAT exams. The knowledge units will be delivered online through day release. AAT Modules are as follows:
- Introduction to Bookkeeping (Level 2 Unit)
- Principles of Bookkeeping (Level 2 Unit)
- Management Accounting Techniques
- Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
- Business Awareness
- Tax Processes for Business
Qualifications
GCSE in:
- 5 GCSE's including Maths and English (grade 5/B or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Mainly working from home but regular face-to-face meetings with line management will be required. Occasional travel may also be required.
About WGC Ltd
WGC Ltd is a facilities management company established in 1974. WGC operates at over 400 client locations across England, Scotland, and Wales and employs nearly 6,000 colleagues. The largest division provides hotel housekeeping and other services to 260 hotels.
No previous experience in finance is required.
Training is provided on the job and alongside AAT study, so that practical skills and formal qualifications are built together.
Responsibility increases over time as skills and experience develop, and the role provides a structured first step into a career in accounting or finance.
https://www.wgcacademy.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Opportunity to progress into a full-time role with the company following successful completion of the apprenticeship programme.
Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
Jess Mitchell
Apply@ematraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000050767.
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