Accounts assistant apprenticeship AAT
SMARTER ACCOUNTING MID DEVON LIMITED
CREDITON, EX17 3DX
Closes in 13 days (Friday 6 December at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 November 2024
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Summary
This is a great opportunity to start to your career in Accountancy and will cover a range of accounting and bookkeeping functions through the AAT apprenticeship programme. For the successful candidate there will be the potential for progressing to subsequent qualifications to continue your career in accounting.
- Annual wage
- £11,648 a year
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, from 9.00am to 5.00pm, with the opportunity to work extra hours to finish at 1pm on a Friday.
35 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Thursday 2 January
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- 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
In this role, you will engage in a variety of accounting activities, gaining experience across our client base.
You duties will include:
- Gaining valuable work experience through supporting the rest of the team in providing a range of accounting and taxation services to clients
- Preparing financial information, reports and returns for clients
- Inputting core data to accountancy packages to assist with the above
- Assisting with monthly payroll and construction industry scheme returns for clients
- Ad-hoc duties as necessary to facilitate the smooth running of the office
- Providing telephone coverage when required
Where you’ll work
138 HIGH STREET
CREDITON
EX17 3DX
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
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING 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
You will undertake the “Accounts / Finance Assistant” Apprenticeship (an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Accounting), with full support from Accountancy Learning as part of their Flexible Apprenticeship Programme.
Assessment will be by an “End Point Assessment”, which will include the following two elements: · A Structured Interview. This will consist of 10 questions asked by an AAT Independent Assessor. It will last 60 minutes and will be performed remotely via the AAT on-line video portal.
The questions will allowing you to to display the knowledge and experience you have obtained over your apprenticeship. You will build a Portfolio of reflections and product evidence that will be used to support your answers to these 10 questions.
- A synoptic - This will be undertaken under exam conditions.
- It will be based on what you have studied in your AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting. Successful completion of the AAT (Level 2) Foundation Certificate in Accounting is a mandatory element of the Accounts / Finance Assistant Apprenticeship
- Your Apprenticeship will therefore include formal studies towards this qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 5)
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
- Initiative
About this company
We do Accounting - Simple and Smarter Our 4 Partner Directors have a combined accounting experience of over 100 years! They’ve worked with clients in most industry sectors of all shapes and sizes across Devon and beyond. Shaun founded the business over 15 years ago and was soon joined by Neil then Mark, and more recently Michelle. As independent chartered management accountants, we offer a wide range of smarter accountancy services, tax, bookkeeping and practical business advice. Our friendly team of experts are also fully up to date with the latest HMRC and Making Tax Digital (MTD) developments. We’re proud to be digital accounting experts as Xero Platinum Partners, QuickBooks Platinum Certified ProAdvisers and Sage Accountant Partners. We work smarter for our clients, providing the necessary advice, training and support at each stage of the process. We also provide training to all technical staff at all stages of their careers.
Company benefits
Parking within walking distance of the office and has access to public transport. 5 weeks holiday per year plus bank holidays.
After this apprenticeship
- This position has the potential to develop, with new duties and responsibilities added as you progress. This will naturally lead to further training e.g through to AAT level 3 and 4 and beyond
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACCOUNTANCY LEARNING LTD
Victoria
victoria@accountancylearning.ac.uk
01392435349
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000286713.
Apply now
Closes in 13 days (Friday 6 December at 11:59pm)
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