2025 Finance (Cashier) Apprentice - Crawley
THALES UK LIMITED
Crawley, RH10 9HA
Closes on Sunday 16 February
Posted on 25 October 2024
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Summary
If you are looking to start a career in finance, then this could be the apprenticeship for you! Our Level 2 Apprenticeship is a great first step into the industry, with progression routes available and full support to achieve your professional accountancy qualifications (AAT).
- Annual wage
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£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
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Monday - Friday, 37 hours a week (8 hours Monday - Thursday, 5 hours on Friday). Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 1 September
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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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
We have an exciting opportunity to join a Level 2 Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship within our Finance function in Crawley. This is a broad role, which will provide a great introduction to the industry, with continued progression routes available for an exciting and diverse career within finance.
- Responding to Thales Business Support Services (TBSS) requests for cheque payments
- Writing and sending cheques
- Acquiring UK Bank signatures
- Banking any cheques & payments
- Sorting and distributing the post, and scanning any items to TBSS Portugal
- Printing customer invoices, dunning letters and sending via UK post
- Daily Administration Tasks
- Running and saving the bank statements as required
- Working with the UK Treasury department to input daily payments and answer any queries
- Travel & Expenses Applications Administration and Management of the Mailbox
- Monitor, assign and respond to the Cashiers Mail boxes
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
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
You will move into a Cashier role within our Crawley Finance function.
Those who demonstrate the required aptitude and commitment will be supported to progress onto the Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship over a further 18 months.
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
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 move into a Cashier role within our Crawley Finance function.
Those who demonstrate the required aptitude and commitment will be supported to progress onto the Level 3 Assistant Account Apprenticeship over a further 18 months.
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 VAC1000284239.
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