Finance Apprentice

Citypress services ltd

Greater Manchester (M2 6LW)

Closes in 17 days (Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 9 April 2025

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Summary

We are growing our Finance team and would love to hear from you if you are interested in starting your career in accounting & finance. You don’t need any previous experience, but we are looking for people with a passion for working with numbers and lots of enthusiasm to learn new skills.

Wage

£18,000 a year

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5:30pm. Flexible start and finish times between 8.00am and 6:30pm. 37.5 hours a week.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 2 June 2025

Duration

1 year 6 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

  • Processing invoices and remittances
  • Generating time sheet reports
  • Reconciling expenses
  • Working with Excel to produce reports
  • Provide support to the wider Operations team (Admin, HR and IT)
  • Participating in training sessions and creativity/brainstorm sessions

Where you’ll work

2-10 Albert Square
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 6LW

Training

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

College or training organisation

KAPLAN FINANCIAL 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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4-9)
  • Maths (grade 4-9)

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Enthusiasm to learn

About this company

We are a leading public relations (PR), social media and creative communications agency that works with clients, including Aldi, Lloyds Bank, Nestle, Coca Cola, Primark and Siemens, to promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our team of over 120 people across the UK have diverse backgrounds and work together to deliver award winning communications advice and campaigns. Citypress is independently run, employee-owned and one of the top employers in the PR industry. We are an entrepreneurial agency with a people first culture that backs colleagues to develop their careers and deliver their best work. We have featured in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies list for five years, feature in the Social Mobility Index and are the most-awarded agency in PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. Our culture is inclusive, we encourage and welcome people with different life experiences and backgrounds to help us to bring valuable insight and perspectives to our agency and clients.

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

Company benefits

• £1,000 travel allowance • Annual profit share bonus • Generous holiday allowance • Regular team and company social events • Mobile phone contribution • Volunteering days

After this apprenticeship

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Business and wider Operations
  • Full time employment

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Citypress services ltd

Lewis Rigby

Recruitment@citypress.co.uk

0161 235 0300

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314827.

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Closes in 17 days (Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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