Finance Apprentice
Thorlux Lighting
Worcestershire, B98 9HH
Closes in 25 days (Saturday 15 February at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 January 2025
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Summary
Opportunity to be part of a supportive successful and dynamic finance team, covering all transactional finance duties in a manufacturing environment - accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash book and general ledger.
- Annual wage
- £12,064 a year
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 08.45 - 17.00, lunch 13.00 - 14.00
36 hours 15 minutes a week
- Possible start date
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Saturday 1 March
- 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
- Accounts payable - registering and matching invoices, managing the ledger and supplier queries
- Accounts receivable and credit control
- Cash book support
- General ledger support
Where you’ll work
Merse Road
Redditch
Worcestershire
B98 9HH
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
HEART OF WORCESTERSHIRE 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
Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2.
Training will take place once a week at either Bromsgrove or Worcester campus.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Math and English (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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Literacy skills
Other requirements
You will need to be able to get to our site in Redditch as the role is office based, as well as to college.
About this company
Innovating sustainable lighting solutions for a brighter future. Thorlux Lighting are designers, manufacturers and suppliers of professional lighting systems.
After this apprenticeship
There is a range of opportunities depending on ability and interest. This might be to take on a more senior role in the shared service centre (accounts payable/receivable), to move up through a management route e.g. to be the finance manager for one of the subsidiaries, or to move into management accounting and pursue further qualifications such as CIMA. Many of our senior managers have been with Thorlux since they were apprentices.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEART OF WORCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE
Lindsay Prodger
lprodger@howcollege.ac.uk
01905743527
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000295599.
Apply now
Closes in 25 days (Saturday 15 February at 11:59pm)
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