Finance Apprentice

Summary

Luxury Leisure are offering a fantastic apprentice opportunity for someone wanting to kick start a career in finance, within a market leading leisure company. The position is based at their head office, in a beautifully modern building with an onsite gym, situated along the Team Valley, Gateshead.

Wage: £16,000 a year
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Training course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. 37.5 hrs per week.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 7 April
Duration: 1 year
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

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to gain experience in finance whilst working towards a recognised AAT qualification.
Luxury Leisure are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual to join their friendly and professional team, who will fully support the apprentice throughout their apprenticeship.
The purpose of this role is to provide effective support to the rest of Finance team and to undertake various finance based tasks

• To complete daily bank statement reconciliations.

• Processing personal expenses & credit card statements accurately and efficiently.

• Maintaining a log of weekly banking summaries, ensuring all updates and amendments are completed

• Update ATM & PDQ reconciliation

• Ensure all spreadsheets are reconciled for month end deadlines

• Assist with processing of invoices

• To cover and assist with Reception & Admin duties such as booking hotels, travel & meeting rooms, managing post, answering phone calls and other office duties

Strong IT skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office are essential for this role.

This list of duties is not exhaustive and other tasks may be required.

Probationary period applies.

Where you’ll work

Fifth Avenue Plaza
Team Valley
Gateshead
NE11 0BL

Training

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

College or training organisation

ACCESS TRAINING 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

Attend Access Training on a fortnightly basis.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

Please ensure that you can travel to the Team Valley for a 09.00am start. Candidates must be able to attend fortnightly day release sessions for the AAT level 2 Apprenticeship at Access Training on Team Valley, Gateshead.

About this company

Luxury Leisure Talarius, trading as Admiral, is a market leading provider of slots and gaming entertainment in the UK. Boasting over 230 high street and seaside gaming venues, Admiral offers the ultimate gaming experience, showcasing the best casino and classic slot games available on both the most technologically advanced slot machines and traditional “fruit machines.”

After this apprenticeship

The company view this apprentice position as a long term opportunity for an individual to progress within their organisation and they are committed to supporting the candidate’s progression.

As the company continues to grow there may be career progression opportunities, for the right candidate.

The salary would start at £16,000 and increase to £18,000 once level 2 was passed. The employer would then review to see if the candidate would go onto level 3, and possibly again for level 4.

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