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New Role: Finance Apprentice
This is a newly created role, hands-on role within a business that is evolving and growing. The finance apprenticeship provides a pathway to a career in finance, offering hands-on experience and the opportunity to develop essential skills in a real-world environment. It will offer the opportunity to experience different aspects of the finance industry.
Wage
£15,600 a year
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Training Course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
9.00am until 5.00pm, Monday - Friday, unpaid 30-minute lunch.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start Date
Monday 10 August 2026
Duration
1 year 3 months
Positions Available
1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Administration: Provide effective finance administration support, including processing invoices, maintaining financial records, and responding to financial inquiries from internal and external stakeholders.
- Data Entry: Enter financial data, code invoices, enter bank transactions to the ledger, and prepare sales invoices.
- Support Finance Team: Provide support to accounts payable and receivable functions, including sending customer statements and reminders, matching purchase invoices, Goods receipt notes and purchase orders, and allocating receipts and payments.
- Financial Reporting: Assist the finance team in producing monthly management accounts including reconciliations to ensure accurate financial information.
- Budget Management: Help in the preparation of annual budgets, rolling forecasts and finance reports using financial systems, Excel, and Microsoft 365.
- Maintaining Records: Maintain and reconcile suppliers statements, fixed asset registers and reconcile AP and AR reports.
- Collaboration and Support: Work closely with colleagues in other departments to provide financial information and obtain information to support the financial health of the business.
- Training and Development: Commit to completing the required AAT qualification through the apprenticeship scheme, attending all necessary training and mentoring sessions.
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Where you'll work
Perry Road Nottingham
NG5 1GQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
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What you'll learn
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.
Training schedule
This programme is delivered via a day release delivery model which means that one day per week, your attendance is required at our Derby Road Campus. This attendance is required during term time only.
You will work with expert assessors and tutors to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours within the profession.
You will experience a blended learning model.
Please note: This is an apprenticeship vacancy and the advertised closing date is provided as a guide only. The employer wishes to review applications and interview suitable candidates as they are received. As a result, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is identified or if a high volume of applications is received. We therefore encourage interested applicants to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.


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Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 5)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Nottingham, NG5 1GQ (relocating to new premises NG16 2GT).
About this employer
Autajon is a family-owned industrial group where each employee is a “Connected Entrepreneur.” With a strong international presence and over 4,000 employees globally, we specialise in delivering innovative, sustainable packaging solutions across luxury goods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and more. Simply Cartons and Simply Luxe, based in Nottingham form part of the Autajon Group’s UK operations. Together employing around 200 people, they provide high-quality, sustainable and bespoke packaging & labels solutions to premium and luxury brands. Finance plays a central role in supporting the continued growth and development of the business.
Autajon Group website (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Study support
- Study leave
- Opportunity to work out of a newly renovated, modern working environment
- The stability and the resources of a highly successful international parent group
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Full time permanent role with next level apprenticeship progression for the right candidate.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Karen
apprenticeships@wnc.ac.uk
01623 900632
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045049.
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