Finance Administrator Apprentice
LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST
Carnation Road, Strood, Rochester, ME2 2SX
Closes in 7 days (Thursday 21 November)
Posted on 7 November 2024
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Summary
Are you ready to launch a rewarding finance career? The Leigh Institute is hiring a Finance Administrator Apprentice, offering hands-on experience and the chance to earn a Level 3 Business Administration qualification. You’ll join a supportive team that values growth and collaboration, working on invoice processing, payments, and queries.
- Annual wage
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£12,313.60 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
£13,725 per annum
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 8.00am - 4.00pm / Friday, 8.00am - 3.30pm.
37 hours (including the 20% training element of the apprenticeship).
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Thursday 5 December
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
Our successful candidate will become part of a friendly team that supports the four founding organisations within the finance remit, contributing to effective financial management across our academies.
Applicants should be professional, personable and committed to providing an excellent service on behalf of Leigh Academies Trust and above all else our appointed candidate will have a positive work ethic and can-do attitude. Applicants should also be confident in many aspects of IT, and will be expected to utilise the Google Suite of tools for many aspects of their work.
Where you’ll work
Carnation Road, Strood, Rochester
ME2 2SX
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
LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST
Your training course
Business administrator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade C/4)
- ICT (grade Grade C/4)
- Maths (grade Grade C/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
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating 20,000 students, and employing 3,000 talented staff. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website. As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation. Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check. Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.
After this apprenticeship
This apprenticeship could be the start of a very promising career within the wider business and administration remit. We endeavour to offer further employment following successful performance and completion of the Level 3 course with future opportunities to extend your training with a higher level apprenticeship programme. We offer in-house Continuing Professional Development and you’ll be part of a highly experienced and efficient office team - you’ll be learning from the very best!
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000286511.
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Closes in 7 days (Thursday 21 November)
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