Assistant Accountant Apprentice
EXCOOL LIMITED
STOKE PRIOR (B60 4EA)
Closes in 19 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 July 2025
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Summary
We are actively looking for a Purchase Ledger Apprentice to join our team. As the UK’s leading manufacturer of Air-conditioning and Heat Pump equipment, in addition to exporting over £50,000,000 over the past few years resulting in the “Queens Award for Enterprise, we can offer exceptional prospects for the future.
- Wage
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£15,000 a year
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Performance bonus and increase, half day Fridays, company pension
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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8am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 12.30pm on Friday
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 12 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 5 months
- 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
As an Accounting/Finance Apprenticeship, your duties will include:
- Working within a team to ensure all daily tasks are completed, which includes entering Invoices and Debit notes onto Sage and SAP
- Investigating discrepancies and raising debit notes when required
- Logging queries for distribution. Daily payment runs.
- Credit card reconciliations and postings.
- Carrying out any other duties as requested by the Finance Manager including covering work as and when required.
Person Specification:
- Willingness and enthusiasm to learn in a professional environment.
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to follow processes and procedures accurately.
- Extremely organised, excellent time management and able to remain calm in a pressurised environment.
Where you'll work
COOPER HOUSE
CORBETT BUSINESS PARK
SHAW LANE
STOKE PRIOR
B60 4EA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Training course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Training schedule
Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship:
Formal training is delivered at HWGTA, located in Worcester (WR4 9GN).
You will receive training one day per week which is a combination of face-to-face and remote, as per your assigned training plan.
Additional training for functional skills in English and Maths will be undertaken if needed.
You will receive monthly visits from your assigned Learning and Development Specialist, who will set you work, monitor your development and wellbeing, and discuss training sessions. They will also prepare you for your End Point Assessment to gain your Accountancy qualification.
More training information
There is also a five-day teambuilding residential trip that is held in the spring of each year offered to all apprentices on programme.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
About this employer
Over 40 years experience and manufacturing, and Excool itself started in 2010. We design, manufacture, install and maintain data centre cooling equipment globally. Most of our work is currently in the US and Asia.
https://www.excool.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
• Career progression • Full training including day release for Studies. • Company pension • 28 days holiday including bank holiday. Plus, 1 day extra per year capped at 5 years after 2 years.
After this apprenticeship
Career progression is offered to the right candidate, as we are a company which promotes from within.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Emily Jackson
emily.jackson@hwgta.org
01905330732
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332919.
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Closes in 19 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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