Accounting Apprenticeship

ST MARYS SERVICES LTD

Thornton Heath (CR7 8BG)

Closes in 13 days (Friday 25 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 2 January 2025

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Summary

Accountant assistant role to assist with accounting tasks. Duties will include: Updating and reconciling nominal ledgers activities and transactions maintaining the sales and purchase ledgers. Setting up and updating the cash flow report along with some general admin duties.

Wage

£14,918.80 to £24,126.96, depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm excluding day release for training.

38 hours a week

Start date

Sunday 25 May 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

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

  • Setting up and updating cash flow report
  • Agreed monthly reports
  • Updating and reconciling nominal ledgers activities and transactions
  • Dealing with bank postings 

Where you’ll work

5 Green Lane
Thornton Heath
CR7 8BG

Training

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

College or training organisation

THE TRAINING PLACE OF EXCELLENCE LIMITED

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

  • The apprentice will get theoretical training with us working towards a Level 2 AAT Foundation Certificate qualification doing 6 exams and an EPA discussion, while gaining experience 4 days per week with an employer
  • The apprentice will gain a Level 2 Certificate
  • The training will take place at: London, SE14 5BE
  • The training will be 1 day per week at the above location

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade 4-9; A*-C)
  • Maths (grade 4-9; 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
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this company

St Mary's Accounting Services is a firm of Chartered Certified Accountants based in South East London rendering a range of accounting and bookkeeping services to small to medium sized businesses across London and South London.

After this apprenticeship

Progress to AAT Level 3.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE TRAINING PLACE OF EXCELLENCE LIMITED

Brunilda Aliaj

brunildaaliaj@thetrainingplace.org

07496141960

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000293683.

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Closes in 13 days (Friday 25 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

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