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Role Overview
Your role will be assisting with the daily tasks that keep the finance team functioning such as producing business critical financial reports and posting journals. You will also have the opportunity to work on significant projects such incorporating acquisitions into our function.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What You'll Do at Work
You will join an apprenticeship scheme that will work in a rotation around the three main teams within the finance function. The role will give you a well-rounded, hands-on finance experience whilst you obtain your CIMA qualifications. Each rotation comes with exciting challenges and new learnings.
The three teams (not necessarily in the order you will work in them) and what you will be doing are:
Controlling
- Experience in management accounting tasks such budgeting, forecasting, product costings, financial analysis, sales reporting, cost controls, capex approval controls and Stock analysis
Financial Accounting
- Grounding on the fundamental of accounting and the regulatory environment. Amongst the tasks you will perform within this role you will be posting journals, administrating the IFRS16 calculation, VAT returns, Accruals, Statutory account preparation, maintain the fixed asset register and assisting with audit inquiries
Pricing
- The commercial aspect of finance. You will be doing analysis on what changes in price have on Sales. Tasks include mix analysis, low margin reporting, quote pricing administration, E-shop management, pricing reviews and elasticity analysis
Within the scheme you will have a single line manager for discussing your own development and guiding you through blending your practical work experience with your CIMA studies.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Costing analysis and reporting
- Financial reporting
- Assisting with statutory reporting
- Assisting with the month end closure
- Price effect calculations
- Pricing controls
Where You'll Work
Sika Limited
Knowsthorpe Way
Leeds
LS9 0SW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Training Course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
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What You'll Learn
Course Contents
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
- Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
- Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
- Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
- Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
- Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
- Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Training Schedule
Professional Accounting Technician Level 4.
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace. Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
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Minimum A-levels, Strong GCSEs in
N/A (grade A-C/9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Organisation skills
- Motivated
- Analytical thinker
- Enjoy problem solving
- Strong time management
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Proactive and keen to learn
Other Requirements
- Preferably some kind of relevant work experience or a degree
- School leavers also welcome to apply with strong A-levels/GSCE's
- Strong numerical competency
About the Company
Sika is a speciality chemicals company with a globally leading position in the development and production of systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protection in the building sector and industrial manufacturing. Sika has subsidiaries in 102 countries around the world and, in over 400 factories, produces innovative technologies for customers worldwide. In doing so, it plays a crucial role in enabling the transformation of the construction and transportation sector towards greater environmental compatibility. With more than 34,000 employees, the company generated sales of CHF 11.76 billion in 2024.
Company Benefits
- A company pension contribution of up to 10%
- Private healthcare for you, with option to add family
- Group life cover at 6x your annual salary
- Global Income Protection (PHI)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Staff discount platform & Cycle to Work scheme
- Dedicated Service Awards for reaching key milestones
- Selected discounted Sika products
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Additional Information
This will be a fixed term role.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
VAC2000044962.
Closes in 19 days (Saturday 22 August 2026)
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