Finance Apprentice

Summary

The highly established European Consortium for Political Research, located in Colchester, Essex, are seeking to employ a Finance Apprentice. The successful candidate will assist the Finance Team with daily processing tasks, finance administration and other finance duties, including use of Paypal, BOS and more.

Annual wage

£11,980.80 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Generous pension scheme, up to 16%

Training course

Assistant accountant (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday flexible hours between 8.00am and 7.00pm. Flexible lunches/breaks minimum 20 minutes.

36 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 11 November

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

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

Day-to-day tasks will include:

Download PayPal
Download BOS
Download credit card transactions
Download Caxton transactions and add to Access Import Sheet
Check email inboxes for urgent items to respond to
Update BOS payments on website
Download Event Registrations reports from website
Add paid items to Daily Import Sheet
Post BOS EUR receipts to Sage
Post BOS GBP receipts or add to Daily Import Sheet
Export transactions from Access and add to Daily Import Sheet
Sage check-data, back-up, update Audit Trail Daily Report
Import Daily Import Sheet ensuring that correct VAT values and codes have been entered
Download invoices from website and save ensuring the correct VAT rate and number has been used for the country of the event
Raise outstanding event registration credit notes
Copy and paste SG items to SG spreadsheet
Start new import sheet for the following working day
Post PayPal transactions to Sage
Process remaining items from email inboxes ensuring purchase invoices reflect the relevant country VAT number
Update WL from payments app
Add WL items to Daily Import Sheet for the following day
Import Access import sheet
Debtors & Creditors checking
Schedule publications items for the following month

Where you’ll work

Harbour House

6-8 Hythe Quay

Colchester

Essex

CO2 8JF

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

COLCHESTER INSTITUTE

Your training course

Assistant accountant (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.

Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.

Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.

Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.

Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.

Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.

Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.

Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.

Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.

Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.

Your training plan

The apprentice will be working towards the Official Assistant Accountant Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard Certification
All training will be delivered fortnightly within the work place, via online training and at Colchester Institute Campus
Qualifications include: AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) Advanced Diploma in Accounting as their on- programme learning

More training information

Colchester Institute have partnered with Mindful Education to deliver this apprenticeship through our online and on campus model

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

5 GCSE's, including Maths and English (grade A*-C/9-4)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Level 2 AAT qualification (grade Pass)

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
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Keen to learn
Keen to engage

Other requirements

Almost all work will be carried out on a computer as we are paper free, therefore long hours on a PC will be expected. Hybrid working is offered.

About this company

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) was established by a group of twelve founding European universities and as the result of a project led by eminent political scientists, Jean Blondel and Stein Rokkan, to… "break down the barriers between the national traditions of the discipline and create a truly international community of scholars within Europe…" With the help of a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, the ECPR quickly built a framework of membership and activities to meet this mission. Fifty years on, we are the leading scholarly society for political scientists in Europe; we have over 300 institutional members in nearly 50 countries, which amounts to a global community of tens of thousands of scholars. We bring scholars together across our global network to develop research and grow the discipline. Through our events, publications and research groups, we foster scholarly collaboration across borders.

http://www.ecpr.eu (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Employee benefits package including Cycle to Work Scheme, Workplace Nursery Scheme and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme. Also Free parking, 25 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays & Flexible working. As well as free tea, coffee and filtered water.

After this apprenticeship

There is potential for this role to be permanent. The finance department structure is, Finance Apprentice, Finance Assistant, Finance Manager and Head of Compliance. There is not a lot of scope to move up in the company as it is small, however we do support training and education so that employees may always be growing and developing.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

COLCHESTER INSTITUTE

Colchester Institute - Apprenticeships Team

ci.apprenticeships@colchester.ac.uk

01206712043

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000281320.

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Closes in 23 days (Friday 1 November)

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