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Accounts Assistant Apprentice
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About the Role
This is an exciting role ideally suited to somebody with an interest in beginning a career in administration and accountancy. Working within a relatively small company, the Apprentice will work alongside the Management Accountant.
Duties
- Answering in-coming telephone calls
- Meet and greet of visitors
- Updating the company calendar
- Ordering of company supplies (stationery etc)
- Providing ad-hoc administrative support to the directors
Specific accounting duties will include:
- Matching of supplier delivery notes to supplier invoices
- Coding and entering of supplier invoices
- Reconciliation of supplier statements
- Preparing weekly supplier BACS payment runs
- Raising of sales invoices
- Credit Control - Building relationships with customers to ensure prompt payment of sales invoices
- Filing of accounts paperwork
Apprenticeship Details
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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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.
Application Information
We reserve the right to close this opportunity after 1 week if we have received enough applications, and therefore recommend you make an application as soon as possible, rather than waiting until the planned closing date as we cannot guarantee the vacancy will remain open for the whole time planned.
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If you are applying with qualifications other than those listed in the entry requirements (GCSE's), please make sure you have obtained official evidence of equivalency from UK ENIC before the application closing date. Please note, if you are shortlisted for the post, we cannot progress your application any further without you providing evidence of this.
About Norcott
Norcott is a leading provider of electronic design and assembly services. We work with our customers at the leading edge of new product development from initial design, prototyping and certification through to volume manufacture, on-going service, maintenance and repair. In short - the complete product lifecycle.
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There may be opportunities to apply for roles within the company, if these arise during the apprenticeship.
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