Finance Apprentice

OWLCOTES MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Leeds (LS12 2AY)

Closes in 26 days (Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 28 July 2025

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Summary

To support the Trust’s finance team in delivering a high-quality and compliant financial service across all academies. The apprentice will undertake a wide range of financial and administrative tasks while studying towards a Level 4 AAT qualification.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, regular working hours, exact hours TBC.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 4 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

Financial Processing:

  • Support the raising of purchase orders and processing of purchase invoices
  • Assist in matching delivery notes, invoices, and orders
  • Help reconcile supplier statements and respond to routine creditor queries
  • Assist in preparing and processing payments, including BACS andad hoc transactions

Income and Banking:

  • Record income from school activities, donations, and other sources
  • Support the Senior Finance Assistant with basic bank reconciliation tasks

Reporting and Reconciliation:

  • Assist in maintaining accurate and timely financial records on the Trust’s finance systems
  • Support in producing routine financial reports and information forinternal use and audits

Support to Schools:

  • Provide friendly and professional first-line support to school staff on financial processes
  • Help with training and queries related to finance systems, with occasional visits to schools under supervision

Compliance and Audit:

  • Learn about DfE and Trust financial requirements and assist in ensuring financial records comply with these standards
  • Help prepare documentation for external auditors and respond to basic queries
  • Provide general admin support to the finance team
  • Engage fully with the training programme and demonstrate a commitment to professional development
  • Maintain confidentiality and uphold the Trust’s values at all times.
  • Contribute to ad-hoc tasks and projects as directed by senior finance staff or the CFO

Where you'll work

Salisbury Terrace
Leeds
LS12 2AY

Training

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

Training provider

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

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.

Training schedule

The apprentice will train remotely weekly with Leeds City College, studying towards the L2 AAT qualification

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

BTEC in:

Relevant subject -e.g. Math's (grade Merit or Distinction)

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
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

About this employer

We are a group of primary schools in Leeds, with a genuine desire to provide excellent education and great outcomes for all pupils. Professional development is really important to us, and all staff, whatever their role, are encouraged and supported to develop their professional expertise. There is an emphasis on developing collaborative learning communities and networks across our Trust, to continue to develop and share good practice within our philosophy of 'Working Together to Achieve Excellence'. We have a track record of promotion and progression of staff within Owlcotes, which means that we can attract and keep great staff working within our schools. We value all of the qualities in the children that we teach and the communities that we serve. The schools in our Trust are all different. We firmly believe in schools having their own individuality underpinned by common principles. This preservation of a unique identity enables our schools to focus on the key priorities of teaching and learning that are specific to their own schools and which will most improve educational outcomes for their pupils in their communities.

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After this apprenticeship

  • Progression onto L3 apprenticeship (AAT) is highly likely upon completion of L2

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334173.

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Closes in 26 days (Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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