Accounts and Finance Apprentice - Level 2 (Salary £15000)

TINSDILLS LTD

STOKE ON TRENT, ST1 1QF

Closes in 31 days (Friday 21 February)

Posted on 20 January 2025

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Summary

This role will give a good overview of Tinsdills, providing well rounded knowledge of the Accounts Department liaising with their internal and external clients and other agents that they deal with on a day to basis.

Annual wage
£15,000 a year

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Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm with 1 hour break for lunch

Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm with 1 hour break for lunch

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 3 March

Duration

1 year 4 months

Positions available

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

To work in the Accounts department, having daily interactions with clients, filing documents, working alongside solicitors and other internal members of staff. Supporting the department by streamlining interactions ensuring compliance with Solicitors Accounts Rules and anti-money laundering procedures. Undertaking reconciliations of Client and Office ledgers and assisting with financial transactions.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Accounts administration
  • Logging and maintenance of client documents
  • Telephony
  • Liaising with clients
  • Scanning of documents
  • Posting financial transactions
  • Taking payments over the telephone
  • Answering client and staff queries
  • Working with ledgers
  • Monitoring online banking
  • Sending monies to clients and other solicitors
  • Reconciliations of client funds and ledgers
  • Performance of day/month end reconciliations
  • Ensure compliance with Solicitors Accounts Rules
  • Compliance checks
     

Company Benefits:

  • Start on 20 days holiday increasing to 25 days
  • Contributory pension
  • Death in service 2x salary
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Perkbox
  • Monthly dress for the day
  • Company flu vaccination vouchers
  • Fully funded Christmas Party
  • Birthday holiday
  • Social events
  • Discretionary Directors’ days

Where you’ll work

HAYS HOUSE

25 ALBION STREET

STOKE ON TRENT

ST1 1QF

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

DAMAR 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 and Finance Level 2 apprenticeship standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade 9-6/A*-B or above)
  • Maths (grade 9-5/A*-C or above)

A Level or equivalent in:

  • 3 x A Levels (grade 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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical
  • Team working

Other requirements

Damar is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our apprentices and expects our employer partners to share this commitment and to take appropriate steps to ensure that learning takes place in a safe, healthy and supportive environment.

About this company

Tinsdills Solicitors has been practising in the local area in one guise or another for nearly 350 years! They have grown over the years through a combination of organic growth, merger and acquisition. Today Tinsdills Solicitors are one of the areas most experienced and knowledgeable law firms with offices in Hanley, Leek, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Sandbach. They offer a broad range of legal services for individuals and for business including Family Law, Wills, Trust & Probate, Personal Injury and Compensation, Residential Property, Agriculture, Company and Commercial and Employment Law. Their aim is simple, it is to exceed our clients’ expectations in everything that they do.

https://tinsdills.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

This role is very visual within the business and could progress to higher level apprenticeships within the Accounts department. You will also have exposure to various software packages that will enhance your technical ability. These will include Microsoft Word, Excel and ALB.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DAMAR LIMITED

Sabina Adam

Sabina.Adam@damartraining.com

07566 289 979

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000297186.

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Closes in 31 days (Friday 21 February)

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