Finance Apprentice

We are looking for a hardworking, committed and enthusiastic Apprentice to join our vibrant and friendly team. You will work within our Finance department and will be supported through your qualification with real experience to complement your learning.

General Duties

• Assist with processing purchase invoices and supplier payments
• Support sales invoicing and customer account administration
• Help reconcile bank statements and financial records
• Maintain accurate financial databases and filing systems
• Assist with month-end and year-end finance activities
• Support the preparation of financial reports and spreadsheets
• Monitor and respond to finance-related queries from colleagues and suppliers
• Process employee expenses and assist with payroll administration where required
• Ensure financial transactions comply with company policies and procedures
• Assist with audit preparation and document collation
• Learn and apply accounting principles through on-the-job training and study
• Undertake any reasonable request within your capability

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training Provider

DN COLLEGES GROUP

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.