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This is a great opportunity to start your career in Accountancy and will cover a range of accounting and bookkeeping functions. This would suit a candidate who is happy to be working individually and as part of a small team in a calm and orderly environment with hopes of long-term progression.
A broad range of accounting and finance tasks will be undertaken, providing experience across our activities. Tasks at some point would include:
- Data entry for the weekly and monthly client payrolls
- Processing purchase Ledger invoices
- Supplier payments
- Reconciling suppler statements
- Maintaining supplier records
- Sales invoicing
- Maintaining customer records
- Processing company credit card statements
- Processing staff expenses
- Matching the bank feeds
- Month-end journals
- Dealing with intercompany management charges
- Understanding the various accounting software in use
- General admin, including a lot of ad-hoc duties
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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.
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You will undertake the “Accounts / Finance Assistant” Apprenticeship (an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Accounting), with full support from Accountancy Learning as part of their Flexible Apprenticeship Programme. If you have previous AAT experience, there is the opportunity to uplift to a higher-level apprenticeship.
Assessment will be by an “End Point Assessment”, which will include the following two elements:
- An Structured Interview. This will consist of 10 questions asked by an AAT Independent Assessor. It will last 60 minutes and will be performed remotely via the AAT online video portal. The questions will allow you to display the knowledge and experience you have obtained over your apprenticeship. You will build a Portfolio of reflections and product evidence that will be used to support your answers to these 10 questions.
- An In-tray Test. This will be undertaken under exam conditions and will last 105 minutes. It will be based on what you have studied in your AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting.
Successful completion of the AAT (Level 2) Foundation Certificate in Accounting is a mandatory element of the Accounts / Finance Assistant Apprenticeship. Your Apprenticeship will therefore include formal studies towards this qualification. It is anticipated that your apprenticeship duration will be for 15 months, although earlier completion is possible, provided the duration exceeds one year and a week.
You will receive support from both the employer and the training provider, to complete and achieve your Apprenticeship and will be given time to study during the week on a day release basis. As you are working towards a professional qualification, it is also expected that you will continue your studies outside of normal office hours. As you learn more in both the office and in your studies, your responsibilities, and the variety of tasks you undertake, are expected to increase.
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Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- 3 other subjects (grade 9-5( A-C))
- English (grade 9-5(A-C))
- Maths (grade 9-5(A-C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
The position might also suit a first year undergraduate or college leaver or someone who has decided to pursue an alternative career route and earn while they learn. This has been a proven method for current Apprenticeship members of the T&A Kirk Accountants team. However, attitude is of equal importance to aptitude.
About T and A Kirk Accountancy
T and A Kirk Accountancy was founded through a love of numbers and people. With clients across the country ranging from large international outfits to small one-man-bands, we aim to provide a prompt professional service to all. As a family run firm, we care about every client and staff member. We pride ourselves on our expertise and customer communication. No question is too big or too small. We are always on hand to listen and answer questions in plain English without the jargon.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Good long-term progression opportunities within the company.
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