Apprentice Accountant

FIRST ACCOUNTANNCY BUSINESS ACCOUNTANNCY LIMITED

SHEFFIELD (S20 1ED)

Closes in 7 days (Thursday 1 May 2025)

Posted on 1 April 2025

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Summary

First Accountancy are seeking an apprentice who is dedicated and has a real interest in Finance to join their wonderful team. The successful candidate will enrol onto a Level 2 Accounts/Finance Assistant. This is a great opportunity to build a career with a growing company who value their staff and their development.

Wage

£14,133.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 9.00am to 5.00pm. Friday, 9.00am to 3:30pm.

36 hours a week

Start date

Friday 2 May 2025

Duration

1 year

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

  • Assisting with the preparation of financial statements and accounts preparation for Sole Traders, Partnerships and Limited Companies.
  • Processing invoices, payments, and expenses
  • Supporting with VAT returns and tax computations.
  • Helping to prepare and submit payroll information.
  • Conducting bank reconciliations and maintaining accurate financial records.
  • Assisting with client queries and providing administrative duties such as meeting and greeting clients, filing, answering telephone and supporting the team to meet deadlines as required.
  • Learning and applying accounting software and systems.

Where you’ll work

52A HIGH STREET
BEIGHTON
SHEFFIELD
S20 1ED

Training

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

College or training organisation

APPRENTICE TEAM LTD

Your training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

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.
  • 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.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 9-4 (A*-C))
  • Maths (grade 9-4 (A*-C))

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship 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
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

They are a Sheffield based accountants and small business advisers, established in 1996 They specialise in providing practical help to self-employed and small businesses. As professionally qualified chartered management accountants and incorporated financial accountants, There company is also able to provide the level of support you require. We are very confident we can help your business to grow and also help you to meet accounting deadlines

After this apprenticeship

  • Possible progression onto further employment within the business and onto higher apprenticeships.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

APPRENTICE TEAM LTD

Dylan Marshall

Dylan.marshall@apprenticeteam.co.uk

01246278931

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000313260.

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Closes in 7 days (Thursday 1 May 2025)

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