Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship

FOCUS GROUP LOGISTICS LTD

HERTS (WD3 1EH)

Closes on Saturday 31 May 2025

Posted on 31 March 2025

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Summary

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2). Maintaining an efficient and accurate finance function within a business.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 14 June 2025

Duration

2 years

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

  • Accounts Payable
  • Match Purchase Invoices against PO in Approval Max, raise query with Operations Team on variances
  • Print invoices without POs for approval
  • Post Purchase invoices in Xero
  • Supplier statement reconciliation
  • Administrative tasks such as filing, following up on queries or invoices awaiting approval
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Set up, update and maintain Customer company details and contact list in Xero
  •  Raise and issue Sales Invoices in Clarus and Xero
  • Follow up calls to Clients to check receipt and approval of invoice; resolve queries if any
  • Liaise with Operations Team for queries
  • Maintain Aged Debtors List / Credit Control
  • Administrative tasks such as filing correspondences and Purchase Orders.

Where you’ll work

GABLE HOUSE
40 HIGH STREET
RICKMANSWORTH
HERTS
WD3 1EH

Training

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

College or training organisation

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER

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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills

About this company

Focus Group Logistics Ltd. was born out of a longstanding passion for the construction industry and an unwavering desire to change it for the better. For us, this meant building an industry with impeccably high standards, engaged workers and successful projects delivered on budget and on time, every time. And this is the future we’re working towards.

After this apprenticeship

  • Potential full time placement with mutual agreement 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

FOCUS GROUP LOGISTICS LTD

Victoria Hayward

victoria.hayward@focuslogistics.co.uk

07944913157

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312820.

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Closes on Saturday 31 May 2025

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