Accounts/Finance Apprentice

PJB GLASS GROUP LTD

NORTHANTS, NN18 8AQ

Closes in 12 days (Friday 7 March at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 February 2025

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Summary

This Accounts/Finance Assistant apprenticeship programme will ensure you have the skills to maintain an efficient and accurate finance function within a business. This role is part of the business succession planning.

Wage
Competitive

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday - Its 9am-5pm or 8am-4pm Monday to Thursday and 8am-3pm on a Friday

39 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 10 March

Duration

1 year

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

Observing, learning and understanding a wide range of duties and processes, whilst under the instruction of skilled colleagues in a team of three others.

  • Undertaking appropriate in house and external college training. 
  • Assisting with purchase ledger, credit control, answering telephone and email enquiries.
  • Becoming a confident user of our software packages. 
  • Understanding the importance of client liaison and client confidentiality. 
  • General administration duties. 

Where you’ll work

UNIT C CRONIN ROAD

WELDON SOUTH IND ESTATE

CORBY

NORTHANTS

NN18 8AQ

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

NORTHAMPTON COLLEGE

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

  • Day Release one day a week at Booth Lane Northampton College.

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
  • Number skills
  • Team working

About this company

Founded in 2001, we are one of the leading glass suppliers and processors of glass products in the UK with over twenty years experience in the industry. We specialise in bespoke single and high-end glass processing, laminate glass and Insulated Glass Units (IGU).

After this apprenticeship

  • Continued learning and development.
  • Career progression within the business.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NORTHAMPTON COLLEGE

Business Centre

business.centre@northamptoncollege.ac.uk

01604734323

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000302691.

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Closes in 12 days (Friday 7 March at 11:59pm)

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