Finance Apprentice
Liberty Steels UK
Sheffield, S36 2JA
Closes in 26 days (Sunday 20 October at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 September 2024
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Summary
Are you looking to build a career in Finance? Start your career by working towards a Level 2 apprenticeship with Liberty Speciality Steels. You will be gaining valuable workplace experience whilst working towards the AAT qualification.
- Annual wage
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£12,148 a year
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The current rates for our engineering apprenticeships are: Year 1 - £12,148 - Year 2 - £16,323 (aged 21 + will receive 3rd year rate) - Year 3 - £TBC.
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday - hours to be agreed
36 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Friday 1 November
- Duration
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3 Years
- Positions available
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1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
We have an in-house Finance function that supports the Speciality business, covering the full range of Finance activities:
- Recording transactions
- Collecting cash
- Paying suppliers
- Management reporting
- Statutory reporting
- Internal control compliance
- Banking and treasury
As an apprentice you will spend time learning accounting the basic concepts of transactional accounting which could include activities such as processing payments and investigating purchase orders in our accounts payable team and creating sales invoices and chasing outstanding payments with accounts receivable colleagues.
You may also get involved in reconciling current accounts, calculating and entering costs for individual departments and contributing towards producing final profit and loss and balance sheet accounts for period ends.
From the day you start with this business, your development will begin. You will join the Finance team who will provide you with a training programme as you rotate around different areas of the Finance department. As an apprentice you will be allowed day release to attend college in order to complete the Accountancy Level 2 which includes the AAT qualification.
Where you’ll work
7 Fox Valley Way
Stocksbridge
Sheffield
S36 2JA
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Your training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
Your training plan
Level 2 Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship Standard. Day release at our City Campus, Granville Road, Sheffield, S2 2RL.
Specific training courses to meet your development needs will be provided throughout the duration of your apprenticeship.
Opportunities may also exist for further FE/HE education, once your apprenticeship is complete.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- 4 subjects including English and Maths. (grade Grade 4/C and above)
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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Finance
Other requirements
Our main Finance Department is based at the Stocksbridge site, however there is potential that this role could be based at the Rotherham site at Aldwark. Confirmation of this will be made upon appointment. The apprenticeship programme offers a range of benefits to help you make the right start in your working life. It’s a competitive package that recognises your contribution to our business and supports your professional development. As a Speciality Steels apprentice, you’ll enjoy the same range of benefits as other employees from day one. These include: • Generous paid holiday allowance • Family friendly benefits • Discount schemes • Potential for sponsorship towards professional qualifications
About this company
LIBERTY Steel UK is the third largest steel manufacturer in the country, with a footprint that covers nine sites across England, Scotland and Wales. It employs nearly 3,000 people and has an annual steel rolling capacity approaching three million tonnes. With steelmaking heritage dating back to 1842, LIBERTY Steel’s sites in the UK have a wealth of expertise thanks to our team of metallurgists, steelmakers, engineers and technicians. Our capabilities range from electric arc, vacuum induction melting, mill processing and value added services. The business manufactures and distributes products supplied mainly into the aerospace, construction, automotive, oil and gas and energy industries domestically and overseas to over 60 countries. The UK business sits within LIBERTY Steel Group, which is the GFG Alliance’s global steel manufacturing arm. With a total rolling capacity exceeding 18 million tonnes it is one of the top 10 producers globally, excluding China. Liberty Steel UK is playing an active role in meeting the group’s global ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030. Its Speciality Steels business in Rotherham uses an electric arc furnace – a less carbon-intensive form of producing steel than blast furnace production – to melt scrap steel for rolling into downstream products for a range of high-specification industries including oil & gas and aerospace. The UK business also has plans to create a GREENSTEEL hub at its Newport site using renewable energy from sister company SIMEC Atlantis’ Uskmouth biomass plant to power a new electric arc furnace.
After this apprenticeship
Opportunities may also exist for further FE/HE education, once your apprenticeship is complete.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Stewart Parsisson
stewart.parsisson@sheffcol.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000276119.
Apply now
Closes in 26 days (Sunday 20 October at 11:59pm)
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