Assistant Treasury Accountant Apprentice (Amwins Global Risks)

Summary

Responsible for supporting the Financial Reporting Manager in their day to day running of the Treasury, Regulatory and Statutory reporting functions. This will include helping to prepare documents in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio that can then be used to support decision making in the team each day.

Annual wage: £24,000 a year
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Training course: Assistant accountant (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
35 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 11 November
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
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

Responsible for supporting the Financial Reporting Manager in their day to day running of the Treasury, Regulatory and Statutory reporting functions. This will include helping to prepare documents in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio that can then be used to support decision making in the team each day. Every day will be varied with an opportunity to experience a busy account payable, treasury and financial reporting function. There will be an opportunity to interact will all team members to understand and learn what they do as part of our process and control documentation plans.

Responsibilities

Prepare journals and help create monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
Help prepare paperwork needed for investment and foreign exchange transactions.
Support the invoice raising and cashbook completion process each day.
Prepare bi-weekly cashflow forecast
Run ad-hoc reports in Power-BI for the management team including helping prepare PowerPoint presentations.
Help prepare annual financial statements for some subsidiary entities.
Documenting controls in MS Visio to help the reporting manager with process improvements as part of the overall audit process
Be part of a team who periodically produce reports to meet business demands.
Any other ad-hoc accounting requests from management to support timely and high-quality financial reporting.

Where you’ll work

The Brewery Quarter, The High Street

Cheltenham

UK

GL50 3FF

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

Assistant accountant (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.

Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.

Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.

Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.

Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.

Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.

Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.

Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.

Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.

Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.

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

At Amwins Global Risks, we invest in people. When you join our team, we will encourage and support your professional and personal development. We will invest in your life-long learning to help you succeed and grow with our business. We are headquartered in London where we run one of the largest and most successful Lloyd's broking operations in the specialty market sector.

Through our global platform of owned offices, network partnerships and local expertise, Amwins Global Risks has clients, markets and spheres of interest on every continent. Outside of our London office, Amwins Global Risks has an office of 120 people working in a modern office in Cheltenham Town Centre supporting our London and Amsterdam offices. Our offices are our hubs, where we collaborate, share ideas and communicate so we can be the best at what we do as we build our business and culture.

We recognise that you may want to work flexibly and we have practices in place to support this. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to be themselves at work.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 GCSE's including English and Maths (grade (A*-C/9-5 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
Problem solving skills
Ability to analyse
Identify key information
Decision making skills
Commitment

Other requirements

We are committed to developing all our employees at AGR, we offer a mentoring and internal personal development programme. Our defined career pathways give you the opportunity to develop, build your experience and increase your salary. We'll provide a combination of formal and on the job learning, as well as professional development. There are opportunities within our business for people with the right skills, behaviours and attitude to build their career and achieve their aspirations.

About this company

At Amwins Global Risks, we invest in people. When you join our team, we will encourage and support your professional and personal development. We will invest in your life-long learning to help you succeed and grow with our business. We are headquartered in London where we run one of the largest and most successful Lloyd's broking operations in the specialty market sector. Through our global platform of owned offices, network partnerships and local expertise, Amwins Global Risks has clients, markets and spheres of interest on every continent. Outside of our London office, Amwins Global Risks has an office of 120 people working in a modern office in Cheltenham Town Centre supporting our London and Amsterdam offices. Our offices are our hubs, where we collaborate, share ideas and communicate so we can be the best at what we do as we build our business and culture. We recognise that you may want to work flexibly, and we have practices in place to support this. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to be themselves at work.

Company benefits

· 25 Days holidays plus bank holidays · Private Healthcare · Pension (3% employee, 6% employer - will match up to 9%) · Well-being subsidy · Eye care · Dentist Plan · Cycle to work scheme

After this apprenticeship

We are committed to developing all our employees at AGR, we offer a mentoring and internal personal development programme.

Our defined career pathways give you the opportunity to develop, build your experience and increase your salary. We'll provide a combination of formal and on the job learning, as well as professional development. There are opportunities within our business for people with the right skills, behaviours and attitude to build their career and achieve their aspirations.

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