Apprentice Office Finance
LANGLEY SCHOOL
West Midlands (B92 7ER)
Closes in 16 days (Tuesday 1 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 June 2025
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Summary
This role is an opportunity to work in our Finance Office, supporting the team with data input and administrative tasks. The apprenticeship will provide the apprentice with a wide skill set and excellent platform for their future career. We are looking for someone who enjoys working as part of a team and has excellent attention to detail.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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37 hours - Monday to Friday between 8am and 4pm 39 working weeks per year (term time plus INSET days).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
- Processing purchase invoices into the finance system. · Liaising with suppliers and providers
- Raising sales ledger invoices for external lettings/hirers and other ad hoc charges
- Journal internal costs to appropriate departments for photocopying and IT recharges and other ad hoc transfers requested by budget holders
- Track monthly photocopying costs by department
- Ordering and maintaining the finance office stationery
- Process new suppliers onto the finance system
- Annual tracking of staff pecuniary interests
- Assistance in processing overtime claim sheets to our payroll provider portal
Where you'll work
Langley School Kineton Green Road
Olton
Solihull
West Midlands
B92 7ER
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SOLIHULL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
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
You will attend Solihull College & University Centre (Solihull site) once a week during term time. You will also be visited in your workplace every 6 to 8 weeks by your allocated Coach to support you to meet the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours in preparation for the AAT Administered End Point Assessments.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
GCSE's in Maths & English (grade 5)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
- Attention to detail
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to use own initiative
About this company
Langley School is an inclusive, welcoming secondary. We aspire for greatness in all that we do. Our young people are at the heart of everything and decisions we take are based always on what is best for their lives, experiences and future. We are so proud to be Great Place to Work Certified, helping us to understand more about what we are doing well and understanding more about what else we can do to create a positive community for everyone
After this apprenticeship
This role will provide the successful applicant with a wide skill set and excellent platform for their future career. Support staff vacancies may become available at Langley School or within the Multi-Academy Trust, but the apprentice will develop a skill set that would make them a good applicant for support roles within any school setting.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOLIHULL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
Paul Bates
paul.bates@solihull.ac.uk
01216787000
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325527.
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Closes in 16 days (Tuesday 1 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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