Customer Service Apprentice (Finance Shared Service Centre)

Summary

Our Finance Shared Services Centre are responsible for transactional finance processing across the Group including accounts payable, sales invoicing, accounts receivable, and payroll.

Wage: Competitive
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Training course: Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours: Monday- Friday Shifts to be confirmed
39 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 1 year 3 months
Positions available: 3

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

This is an exciting time to join United Living on our Apprenticeship Programme as the business continues to grow and we have a significant order book of secured future projects.

Our Finance Shared Services Centre are responsible for transactional finance processing across the Group including accounts payable, sales invoicing, accounts receivable, and payroll. We are looking for an Apprentice to join the team, and some of your key responsibilities will be:

Liaising with project teams and suppliers to answer queries and ensure invoices are correct
Answering queries from colleagues effectively and with respect
Creating and maintaining electronic and hard-copy files
Updating internal trackers, schedules and the finance system
Completing general support/administrative tasks

Where you’ll work

Clearwater 4, Lingley Business Park

Lingley Green Avenue

Great Sanke

Warrington

WA5 3UZ

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

SMART TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT LIMITED

Your training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
Demonstrate patience and calmness.
Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Your training plan

As an Apprentice with United Living, you’ll be given a real job from day one where you will gain hands-on industry experience, and the knowledge required to achieve a nationally recognised qualification. You’ll be inspired and stretched professionally, but fully supported by an expert network of colleagues, as you work to build the foundations for a career within United Living, and the construction industry.

As part of your apprenticeship programme you will be enrolled on the Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner Apprenticeship, which will be delivered by our training partner Smart Training and Recruitment. The programme is 15 months long and you will study online, spending one day per week working towards achieving your qualification. This could be attending a virtual classroom lesson or workshop, having 1:1 meeting with your tutor, completing online resources, completing research, or working on evidence to put in your portfolio. You will also meet regularly with your coach and your line manager to ensure you are progressing through your programme as expected. Upon successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will be awarded a Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner and will be eligible to join the Institute of Customer Service as an Individual member at Professional level.

More training information

To help you settle into your role, we’ll provide you with a buddy from our apprentice population. They will have some great advice as they were in exactly the same situation as you not so long ago, and you’ll also receive full support from your Line Manager and the Early Careers Team who will help guide you throughout your apprenticeship programme to help you achieve professional success.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English & Maths (grade 4-9/C-A* or equivalent)

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
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working

About this company

United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK, comprised of four complementary businesses. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. We invest in our people and firmly believe that our workforce is our most valuable asset. A driving force for success and the core to achieving our vision of creating a connected and sustainable future, our team is the heart of our organisation. Building a diverse, inclusive, and equal working environment in which everyone is welcomed and encouraged to be themselves, is a commitment we are dedicated to. We believe that having a diverse workforce not only sets us up for success, but it allows for greater opportunities for innovation, adaptability, and wide-ranging capabilities. We empower our people, and our communities, to champion diversity and change every day. We are a fast-paced, diverse, and hugely ambitious business. We welcome challengers, innovators and people who embrace change to establish yourself in a creative environment that champions freedom of expression and supports you in your personal and professional development – because together, we achieve more.

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

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Upon successful completion of this apprenticeship, you could progress to either a higher level customer service apprenticeship, or could decide to specalise with a finance/accounting based apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

United Living Group

Rebecca Harrison

earlycareers@unitedliving.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000302396.

Apply now

Closes on Sunday 6 April 2025

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Company’s application instructions

How to apply If you’re looking to be part of an exciting journey with an evolving business and want to learn something new, every day? They you’ve come to the right place. If you are ready to be part of our expanding team and contribute to our success, please visit our website and click the I’m interested button and submit an application. We recommend you apply as early as possible.

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