pladis UK Ltd Accountacy Apprenticeship

PLADIS (UK) LIMITED

Carlisle (CA2 5TG)

Closes in 14 days (Thursday 28 August 2025)

Posted on 14 August 2025

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Summary

This role offers a unique opportunity ‘earn as you learn’ to build your financial knowledge in manufacturing at McVitie's Carlisle. Throughout your apprenticeship, you’ll be supported as you work toward becoming a CIMA-qualified professional, setting you up for a successful future in finance.

Wage

£19,760 a year

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The pay will increase in year 2 in line with national minimum wage apprenticeship guidelines.

Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (may be adjusted to suit)

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 3 November 2025

Duration

2 years

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

  • Variance Analysis 
  • Invoicing 
  • Product costing 
  • Capital expenditure 
  • Budgeting & forecasting 
  • Weekly reporting 
  • Analysing manufacturing cost base 
  • Supporting Offshore team 
  • Month end journal entries 
  • Vendor Non Conformance (VNC) process
  • Kep performance indicator (KPI) reporting
  • KPI reporting 

Where you'll work

54 Church Street
Carlisle
CA2 5TG

Training

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

Training provider

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

Training course

Professional accounting technician (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
  • Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
  • Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
  • Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
  • Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
  • Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
  • Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
  • Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
  • Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
  • Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
  • Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
  • Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
  • Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
  • Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
  • Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
  • Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
  • Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
  • Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
  • Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
  • Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
  • Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
  • Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Training schedule

Professional Accounting Technician Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard:

  • Training will take place online via virtual modules scheduled over the duration of the apprenticeship
  • For the successful applicant there may be the opportunity to progress to CIMA Level 7 with pladis

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 5)

Other in:

Accountancy (grade Merit)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • IT skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

pladis bake some of the UK’s best loved sweet and savoury biscuits and cakes including national favourites such as McVitie’s Digestives, Hobnobs and Jaffa Cakes. We are a family business at heart and spreading happiness is at the core of our shared heritage.

Company benefits

Company pension. Wellbeing hub.

After this apprenticeship

  • It is expected that the successful applicant will move into a permanent finance role within pladis on completion of the apprenticeship
  • They maybe the opportunity towork at different pladis UK locations including our head office in London

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

PLADIS (UK) LIMITED

Chris Pinder

pinderc@pladisglobal.com

07753654306

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337302.

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Closes in 14 days (Thursday 28 August 2025)

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