Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship (Central London)

PRIESTMAN GOODE LTD

London (EC1N 8QX)

Closes in 31 days (Saturday 31 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 29 April 2025

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Summary

A big opportunity for a motivated apprentice to take a defining career step and become the accounts assistant at Priestman Goode - an employee-owned, world-leading industrial design company in the heart of London.

Wage

£28,808 a year

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (including training).

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 July 2025

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

  • Maintenance of the company’s Purchase Ledger
  • Acting as the first port of call for suppliers
  • Accurate maintenance of the company’s credit cards (“Pleo”)
  • Assist the Finance Manager with maintaining the company’s Sales Ledger
  • Help provide expenditure reports for client invoicing
  • Acting as finance liaison for internal Project Managers
  • Assisting with the management of project costs
  • Assisting with job reconciliation and profitability

Where you’ll work

67-74 Saffron Hill
London
EC1N 8QX

Training

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

College or training organisation

THE APPRENTICE ACADEMY 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

  • Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard

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

  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Logical
  • Patience

About this company

We are a multidisciplinary design company: a collective of designers, creative thinkers and practical makers, strategists and trends forecasters with a common vision to imagine and shape the future. Human-centred at our core, we design products and services that are better for people, better for the planet and better for business. Our purpose at Priestman Goode lies in designing a better, more sustainable future. People-centric to the core, we have been improving and transforming everyday experiences for people around the world for over thirty years.

http://www.priestmangoode.com (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

The current employer pension contribution is 5% (on qualifying earnings). As we are an employee-owned company, we aim to give all employees an annual bonus (results permitting).

After this apprenticeship

  • This would be the first step on the road to an accountancy career. The apprentice will gain valuable experience of how an international creative consultancy works

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

PRIESTMAN GOODE LTD

Daniel Garay

danielg@priestmangoode.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317706.

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Closes in 31 days (Saturday 31 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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