Finance and Accounting Apprenticeship

Summary

Ensus operates one of Europe's largest production plants for renewable ethanol at Wilton on Teesside in Northeast England. They are looking to take on a level 2 accounting apprentices to support the team.

Annual wage: £12,480 a year
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Training course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 4 November
Duration: 1 Year
Positions available: 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

The apprentice will be part of the finance team, assisting with day to day finance duties such as:

Maintain and use Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft office
Process receipts/payments using online banking system, AP/AR and misc
Monitor and distribute the accounts mailbox and post, ensuring all correspondence, invoices, statements etc.. are distributed or dealt with efficiently
Create new supplier and customer accounts within Sage 1000
Reconcile supplier statements
Record Keeping
Send customer statements
Other ad hoc accounting duties as and when required

Where you’ll work

Middleway

Wilton Site

Redcar

Cleveland

TS10 4RG

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

MIDDLESBROUGH COLLEGE

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.

Your training plan

Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
Day release at Middlesbrough College
On and off-the-job training

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4)
Math (grade 4)

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
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working

Other requirements

Please ensure that you can attend in a safe and timely manner

About this company

Ensus operates one of Europe's largest production plants for renewable ethanol at Wilton on Teesside in Northeast England. What we stand for: Sustainable, renewable products made from biomass – that is what Ensus stands for. Our products contribute to a climate-friendly world and ensure that fossil carbons remain in the ground permanently and do not continue to drive climate change. "Our vision is a climate friendly world in which renewable resources are key to ensuring the welfare of today's and future generations." n our biorefinery, raw materials are completely utilized. British and European grain in feed quality is refined to produce over 400 million litres of renewable ethanol and 350 thousand tonnes of high protein animal feed (DDGS). Up to 250 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide from the production process is cleaned and liquefied each year by a partner company to be used in drinks and food production or for industrial and medical gases. With our sustainable local products, we contribute to supply security and step up to climate change. For example, in road transport where cars now run on petrol with 10% renewable ethanol and thus reduce their emissions.

After this apprenticeship

Depending on the circumstances of business upon completion of the apprenticeship programme there could be a potential position of employment available

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