2025 Finance Apprentice - Crawley

THALES UK LIMITED

Crawley, RH10 9HA

Closes on Sunday 16 February

Posted on 25 October 2024

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Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join a Finance Apprenticeship within our UK business. We have opportunities within Corporate and our Thales UK business lines. You will be supporting cost centre reviews, plus more.

Annual wage
£16,000 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£16,000 (age 16-19), £21,000 (age 19+) per annum • Performance related pay uplifts • Pension - Thales match, plus 1%, with a maximum contribution of 7% • Health Insurance - 50% of salary for 5 years

Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 37 hours a week (8-hours Monday - Thursday, 5-hours Friday), exact working hours TBC

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 1 September

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

2

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

You can expect to be involved in a wide range of activities, gaining significant exposure to the business and building a broad professional network.

Key responsibilities will vary depending on which team you are sitting within but may include:

  • Liaising with various stakeholders to understand, challenge and report the overheads and headcount of the business
  • Providing accurate, timely and reliable overhead and cost information, and analysis to senior management
  • Utilising Thales tools to develop internal reporting and ensure consistency across the UK
  • Supporting cost centre reviews
  • Assisting in the budgeting cycle where required
  • Managing data cleanse activities including balance sheet reconciliation
  • Supporting projects in maintaining forecast invoicing dates and improving cash forecasting
  • Supporting preparation and distribution of monthly financial results, ensuring tight deadlines are achieved

Where you’ll work

Manor Royal

Crawley

RH10 9HA

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

THE APPRENTICE ACADEMY 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

You will start by enrolling onto a Level 2 Accountant Assistant Apprenticeship with our award-winning training partner. Delivered via a virtual delivery model over 15 months, the apprenticeship will introduce you to day-to-day accounting activities and will help you to build the competence to deliver these successfully. On completion of the programme, you will achieve an AAT Level 2 Diploma in Accounting.

More training information

For this level of role it is expected that you will progress onto higher level learning including the Level 3 Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship (18 months) and the Level 4 Professional Accountant Apprenticeship (17 months) to achieve your AAT qualifications.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • 5 GCSEs incl. Maths and English (grade A*-C or 9-4)

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

  • IT skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working

About this company

Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/uk-career (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

• 201 hours annual leave (plus a company day and bank holidays) • Healthcare Cash Plan • 80 hours (10 days) volunteering in your first 2 years depending on length of programme • Discount Portal

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

You will be expected to progress onto higher level learning and will become an account assistant in our finance team. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THALES UK LIMITED

Thales Early Careers Team

SuppEarlyCar@uk.thalesgroup.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284234.

Apply now

Closes on Sunday 16 February

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Company’s application instructions

Online application Online assessment and video interview Virtual assessment centre Offer, if successful