Finance Apprentice

Day-to-day tasks will include:

Download PayPal Download BOS Download credit card transactions Download Caxton transactions and add to Access Import Sheet Check email inboxes for urgent items to respond to Update BOS payments on website Download Event Registrations reports from website Add paid items to Daily Import Sheet Post BOS EUR receipts to Sage Post BOS GBP receipts or add to Daily Import Sheet Export transactions from Access and add to Daily Import Sheet Sage check-data, back-up, update Audit Trail Daily Report Import Daily Import Sheet ensuring that correct VAT values and codes have been entered Download invoices from website and save ensuring the correct VAT rate and number has been used for the country of the event Raise outstanding event registration credit notes Copy and paste SG items to SG spreadsheet Start new import sheet for the following working day Post PayPal transactions to Sage Process remaining items from email inboxes ensuring purchase invoices reflect the relevant country VAT number Update WL from payments app Add WL items to Daily Import Sheet for the following day Import Access import sheet Debtors & Creditors checking Schedule publications items for the following month

Training:
The apprentice will be working towards the Official Assistant Accountant Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard Certification All training will be delivered fortnightly within the work place, via online training and at Colchester Institute Campus Qualifications include: AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) Advanced Diploma in Accounting as their on- programme learning

Training Outcome:

There is potential for this role to be permanent. The finance department structure is, Finance Apprentice, Finance Assistant, Finance Manager and Head of Compliance. There is not a lot of scope to move up in the company as it is small, however we do support training and education so that employees may always be growing and developing.

Employer Description:
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) was established by a group of twelve founding European universities and as the result of a project led by eminent political scientists, Jean Blondel and Stein Rokkan, to… "break down the barriers between the national traditions of the discipline and create a truly international community of scholars within Europe…" With the help of a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, the ECPR quickly built a framework of membership and activities to meet this mission. Fifty years on, we are the leading scholarly society for political scientists in Europe; we have over 300 institutional members in nearly 50 countries, which amounts to a global community of tens of thousands of scholars. We bring scholars together across our global network to develop research and grow the discipline. Through our events, publications and research groups, we foster scholarly collaboration across borders.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday flexible hours between 8.00am and 7.00pm. Flexible lunches/breaks minimum 20 minutes.

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Problem solving skills,Administrative skills,Number skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative,Non judgemental,Keen to learn,Keen to engage