Finance Administration Apprentice

AAK (UK) LIMITED

Runcorn (WA7 1PZ)

Closes in 23 days (Monday 21 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 24 March 2025

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Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic administration apprentice to join our finance team and to help support the volume growth that the company has had over recent years.

Wage

£20,000 a year

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:45pm, with a 45-minute unpaid lunch break.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 28 April 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

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

  • Generate Customer Statements twice a month and prompt follow-up of any missing invoices or any queries raised by the customer
  • Daily file uploads from Boughey & Romac working in conjunction with Customer Services to check for delivery errors before the file is processed
  • Assist the Credit Control Team with collecting monies to terms. This will involve query investigation, account reconciliation and chasing customers for overdue monies
  • Day-to-day management of the Purchase Ledger inbox. Sorting invoices, statements and queries and directing them into the relevant workflows
  • Processing of Stock Invoice Headers and daily GRNI report generation which is forwarded to the appropriate departments to assist with timely invoice processing
  • Assist the Purchase Ledger Clerk with invoice processing and approval workflows and provide holiday cover to maintain workflow
  • Provide holiday cover for the Customer Services Team, ensuring that customer orders are processed in a timely manner and workflow is maintained
  • Be responsible for the raising and issuing of the Proforma invoices
  • Cover inbound customer service calls
  • Assist the Management Accountant with maintaining customer price files in MTMS

Where you’ll work

Davy Road
Astmoor Industrial Estate
Runcorn
WA7 1PZ

Training

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

College or training organisation

WARRINGTON & VALE ROYAL 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

  • One day a week at Warrington & Vale Royal College (Warrington site). On the job learning in the workplace
  • Level 2 Accounts or finance assistant apprenticeship standard

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
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

Relevant work experience and an interest in a career in Finance would be ideal.

About this company

Our AAK Foods manufacturing facility, located in Runcorn in the North West of the UK, produces a vast range of ambient mustards, condiments, sauces and dressings for our own Lion brand. We also manufacture a number of private label products for leading foodservice wholesalers, buying groups and major retailers.

After this apprenticeship

A level 2 qualification in AAT.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WARRINGTON & VALE ROYAL COLLEGE

Georgia Bramhall

gbramhall@wvr.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000311269.

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Closes in 23 days (Monday 21 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

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