Finance Apprentice (London Metal Exchange)

Summary

This role will involve assisting in varied day-to-day activities of the LME Group Finance team. As part of your Apprenticeship, you will be working towards an ACCA Professional Accounting Technician Level 4 Qualification.

Annual wage: £26,998 a year
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Training course: Professional accounting or taxation technician (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Tuesday. Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 9 December
Duration: 2 Years
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

Accounts payable and receivable support including - processing of invoices in the finance system, dealing with queries from internal and external contacts, purchase order maintenance, supplier statement reconciliations.
Accounts receivable support including – processing of invoices in the finance system, dealing with queries from internal and external contacts, debtor chasing.
Management and financial reporting support including – support for preparation of monthly reporting, account reconciliations, management accounts and financial presentations.
Other ad hoc activities as required – including tasks such as data entry, administrative support, filing and records management.

Where you’ll work

10 Finsbury Square

London

EC2A 1AJ

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

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

Your training course

Professional accounting or taxation technician (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

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.

More training information

BPP’s Level 4 Professional Accounting or Taxation Technician Apprenticeship will help you learn how to apply your role within a business framework, understand the systems and processes used, as well as standard accounting and tax practices.

This course provides fundamental financial skills that can lead to a wide variety of roles, so is an excellent way to explore accounting and tax as a career.

A range of professional accountancy body options are available on the programme, so apprentices can work through official study papers alongside an apprenticeship to earn a recognised qualification.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 GCSE's including English and Maths (grade (A*-C/9-4 or equivalent))
3 A levels including Maths or Economics B & above (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
Number skills
Analytical skills
Basic Excel skills
Word skills
Good time management skills
Written communication skills

About this company

The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s non-ferrous metals business is conducted on the LME and the metals community uses the LME, a member of HKEX Group, as a venue to transfer or take on price risk, as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices.

After this apprenticeship

Permanent placement after the apprenticeship is not guaranteed however, there is a chance for it.

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