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Job Description: Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant Apprenticeship
Role Overview
- Assisting senior accounts staff in preparing annual accounts including preparing bank, cash, purchase, and sales analysis.
- Preparing VAT returns, providing bookkeeping services, dealing with post, and filing as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting with annual accounts preparation.
- Preparing and submitting VAT returns.
- Assisting with management accounts preparation.
- Providing bookkeeping services.
- Applying computer and software skills, such as Sage, Excel, Xero, etc.
- Liaising with clients.
- Providing post and filing support as required.
- Performing bank reconciliation.
- Handling invoicing.
- Managing Purchase Ledger.
Apprenticeship Structure
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Training Components
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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.
Apprenticeship Standard
Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant Apprenticeship Standard, including:
- AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting Level 2
- Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours
- End-Point Assessment
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Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills Required
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
About Grahams
Grahams is one of Wirral’s leading accountancy firms. The offices are based in Hoylake but our client base is spread throughout the whole of Wirral, Chester, the North West and North Wales area.
Career Progression
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
For the right candidate this could lead to a full-time employment position and a further training package.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WIRRAL METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
Reference Code: VAC2000037409
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