Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship

Summary

Join Dixons Academies Trust as an Accounts Assistant Apprentice! You'll process purchase ledger invoices efficiently, handle supplier and staff queries, and manage mailbox communications. Conduct monthly statement reconciliations and ensure compliance with the financial delegation scheme.

Annual wage: £12,480 a year
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Training course: Assistant accountant (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Friday 1 November
Duration: 1 Year 8 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

The effective and efficient process of all Purchase ledger invoices.
Take a lead role in solving queries from suppliers and staff across the academies within the Trust.
Statement reconciliations monthly liaising with Suppliers to resolve queries
Mailbox management
Adherence to Dixons Scheme of Financial Delegation.
Adherence to Dixons standard accounting policies and practise.
To support the delivery of curriculum and operational objectives in an effective, efficient and professional manner.
To ensure tasks are fully completed or otherwise identified to senior colleagues as tasks requiring further investment of time.
To investigate and answer routine queries arising from budget holders, management and other finance colleagues as well as external bodies.
Assists in troubleshooting and resolving purchase ledger issues.
To identify and resolve errors and discrepancies.
To create, develop and/or maintain accounting spreadsheets as necessary.
To maintain departmental storage and retrieval systems ensuring all documents are correctly scanned and subsequently filed.
To develop and maintain a good knowledge of the Trust’s policies, procedures and systems.

Where you’ll work

Dixons Academies Charitable Trust Ltd

Ripley Street

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD5 7RR

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

LET ME PLAY 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

Work towards your Level 3 Accounts Assistant Qualification. (All learning is delivered online/remote).

Training Provider: LMP Education (rated 1st best UK training provider)

Requirements

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
Team working
Creative

About this company

At Dixons, we live our mission and values every day. We are committed to making a difference where it matters most. We work to improve the future for thousands of children in parts of the north of England where young lives are adversely affected by social and educational disadvantage. We believe that every child, regardless of their background, should be able to fulfil their academic potential and go on to thrive. Founded by Dixons City Academy, our trust has over 30 years’ experience in transforming education through our network of high-performing, non-faith academies, and now operates in Leeds, Bradford, Liverpool and Manchester. Our schools include primary, secondary, all-through and sixth form.  We focus exclusively on sponsored turnaround academies to address educational failure, and on new free schools to meet growing demand.  Our diversity is a real strength of our model, balancing common alignment with the autonomy to innovate. We have achieved a great deal in a relatively short time, which gives us a solid platform from which we continue to build responsibly: our trust will continue to expand, going from almost 14,000 students in 2022 to at least 20,000 by 2025.

After this apprenticeship

Full-time role to be considered upon completion of the apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LET ME PLAY LIMITED

Owen MacKinnon

owen.mackinnon@lmpeducation.org

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279172.

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Closes in 26 days (Thursday 31 October at 11:59pm)

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