Accounts & Bookkeeping Apprentice

The general Accountancy duties within this role may include:

Understanding your organisation

Be aware of the organisations needs and activities and their impact for accounting and finance.

Accounting systems and processes

Identify, collate and process financial and accounting data from primary sources such as business records.

Attention to detail

Examine financial and accounting data to identify issues with quality and reliability as instructed and in accordance with guidance.

Correcting financial data errors

Rectify errors in financial and accounting data, escalating problems beyond their remit as appropriate.

Ensuring accurate financial records

Reconcile transactional data to minimise the chance of errors in financial and accounting outputs such as sales and purchase invoices, sale and purchase orders, bank statements and payroll.

Optimising efficiency

Plan and review workloads with supervisor to ensure best use of time to complete allocated tasks efficiently.

Professional communication

Communicate with internal and external stakeholders using appropriate methods and professional language. Examples may include letters, phone, face-to-face, e-mail, video call, online chat functions etc.

Secure data management

Use financial and accounting software packages to input and manage data safely and securely in line with organisational instructions.

Teamwork

Provide support to team members to help ensure that financial and accounting activities are carried out within expected timescales and quality expectations.

Continuous learning

Keep up to date with developments to enhance relevant skills and take responsibility for own professional development. Basic bookkeeping activities. Working with sales and purchase ledgers. Running calculations to ensure that records and payments are correct. Recording of cash and data entry.

Training Outcome:

The opportunities in the world of business are endless. Many apprentices start in business administration, customer service or accountancy, which are great stepping stones into lots of exciting careers. You can go on to specialise in a particular field and into management. You will find people who started in finance and administration working in all professional areas and at all levels.

Employer Description:

Assistive Technology and Training covers nationwide, both in person and remote, to ensure we can offer our services directly to those who need it. Our team of dedicated assessors are based throughout the country to guarantee that there is always support in an area that requires it. Our philosophy of inspiring change could not be achieved without our large network of assessors and offerings.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 16:30.

Skills:
Communication skills,Organisation skills,Logical,Initiative