Accounts Apprentice
A.W.LUMB & CO.LIMITED
Dewsbury, WF12 9BD
Closes in 19 days (Friday 10 January at 11:59pm)
Posted on 20 December 2024
Contents
Summary
We have an opportunity for an Accounts Apprentice to join our Finance team, supporting the Purchase Ledger Manager and Financial Control Team and supporting the provision of a professional and efficient service being delivered by finance to colleagues across the business.
- Annual wage
- Competitive
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 3 February
- 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
- Entering sales receipts from customers to the accounting system.
- Allocating receipts from customers to the customer accounts and individual invoices.
- Answering queries from the Credit Control team and Sales colleagues about receipts from customers.
- Entering adjustments into the accounting system for items such as customer refunds.
- Reconciling cash customer accounts, ensuring all sales and payments have been matched.
- Processing supplier invoices by matching to purchase orders or other internal approval, coding to cost centres and allocating to supplier accounts.
- Reconciliation of supplier statements, ensuring all purchase invoices have been received and processed and all payments received and processed by suppliers.
- Querying any anomalies on customer or supplier accounts with colleagues internally.
- Answering the telephone internally and externally.
- Providing cover for colleagues during periods of absence.
Where you’ll work
Mill Street East
Dewsbury
WF12 9BD
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
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 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.
- 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
You'll be working towards a Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship standard.
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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this company
A W Lumb & Co. Ltd is a subsidiary of Lords Group Trading, who operate as a specialist distributor of building, plumbing, heating and DIY goods across several Brands. The Group principally sells to local tradesmen, small to medium-sized construction companies and retails directly to the general public.
After this apprenticeship
This qualification offers technical training in accounting and is ideal for anyone wishing to pursue a career in Accountancy & Finance.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
A.W.LUMB & CO.LIMITED
Heather McMeckan
heather.mcmeckan@lordsbm.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000293342.
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Closes in 19 days (Friday 10 January at 11:59pm)
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