Finance Apprenticeship
St Nicholas CE Primary Academy
Lincolnshire, PE21 0EF
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 17 December at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 December 2024
Contents
Summary
We are looking for an apprentice to work within our small finance team, providing financial services to our 13 primary schools in Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.
- Annual wage
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£12,313.60 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
The number of working weeks for this apprenticeship is 46.8, which would therefor have a salary of £11,082.24.
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday.
Working 41 weeks per year, 46.8 paid weeks.
Wage paid pro rata, actual wage = £11,082.24.
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 13 January
- Duration
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1 year
- 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
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Raising purchase orders
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Checking orders against budgets
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Processing Invoices
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Responding to telephone & email enquiries from suppliers and schools
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Supporting the Finance Manager with information for budget and reporting to Trustees when needed
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Providing information for auditors as required
Where you’ll work
Woad Farm Road
Boston
Lincolnshire
PE21 0EF
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
BOSTON COLLEGE
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
The Level 2 Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprenticeship will take you 15 months to complete.
We have partnered with Mindful Education to deliver this apprenticeship through our Online and On Campus model. Apprentices will attend Boston College fortnightly as well as study online materials during allotted time at work on alternating weeks.
Online lessons can be accessed at any time, using a mobile, tablet or desktop - meaning apprentices can fit their study around work commitments, minimising disruption in the workplace.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Willing to learn new skills
- Polite
- Good timekeeping
About this company
Children are at the heart of everything we do and we strive every day to add value to our schools to enable them to be even better places for our children and young people to learn and grow. We are proud that our trust serves a wide number of different communities and is made up of different kinds of schools. It's this diversity and difference that gives us our strength and broadens our knowledge base of what works best for children. As a Trust we promote the individuality of our schools and provide them with the freedom to develop their own strengths, distinct character and to meet the needs of their communities whilst at the same time seeking to maximise the benefits of being part of a larger network and organisation. Being part of a Trust gives our staff access to exciting professional development opportunities, gives children the chance to interact with others from different schools and provides challenge and support to school leaders through effective governance. We are driven by a passion to do our very best for the children in our schools and we know that by working together we can achieve things that we could not do alone.
After this apprenticeship
- As the Trust grows, it is expected that the Finance team will also expand and as staff leave there will be the opportunity to progress for the right candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BOSTON COLLEGE
Suzanne Davison
Apprenticeships@boston.ac.uk
01205313238
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000290159.
Apply now
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 17 December at 11:59pm)
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