Junior Accounts Assistant Apprentice

WSP TEXTILES LIMITED

STROUD (GL5 3EJ)

Closes in 23 days (Sunday 29 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 2 June 2025

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Summary

Working with a niche high end manufacturing company staring at junior level aiming to progress and develop.

Wage

£18,000 a year

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 4 August 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

  • Assisting with data entry and maintaining accurate financial records
  • Processing invoices, receipts, and payments
  • Supporting bank reconciliations and ledger maintenance
  • Helping to prepare financial reports
  • Filing and organising financial documents
  • Assisting with payroll and expense claims

Where you'll work

LODGEMORE MILLS
STROUD
GL5 3EJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

CIRENCESTER COLLEGE

Your training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

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What you'll learn

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 Apprenticeship Standard:

  • The role is based at our stroud site along the canal
  • You will be working alongside a team 5 who would supporting your development within the finance team

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
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working

Other requirements

This is an office-based role on a bus route with a short walk to site. There is free onsite parking.

About this company

WSP Textiles is a niche Textiles manufacturing company making high end cloth for snooker, billiard and Tennis customers.

After this apprenticeship

  • To grow and development within the company with a stay with the finance team in a number of future roles

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CIRENCESTER COLLEGE

Apprenticeships

apprenticeships@cirencester.ac.uk

01285 626259

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323621.

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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 29 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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