Accounts Payable Apprentice (Level 2)

NEXUS CARE SERVICES LIMITED

SUTTON COLDFIELD (B74 2LZ)

Closes in 10 days (Friday 5 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 26 August 2025

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Summary

Join Nexus Care Services Ltd as an Accounts Level 2 Apprentice, where you’ll gain hands-on experience in finance, bookkeeping, and payroll while working towards a recognised qualification. This is a great opportunity to develop essential accounting skills and start a rewarding career in business finance.

Wage

£14,918.80 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 : 9:00am - 5.00pm Lunch break - 30 minutes

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Duration

1 year 3 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

Day to day duties will include:

  • Training & Development: Actively engage in your AAT Level 2 Apprenticeship programme, attending all required training sessions and applying your learning in the workplace.
  • Invoicing: Assist with the preparation and processing of weekly invoices, ensuring clients are billed accurately and in line with agreed rates and care packages
  • Payroll Support: Contribute to the smooth running of weekly payroll processes by gathering data and assisting in payment preparation to ensure all employees are paid accurately and on time.
  • Payment Handling: Take telephone payments from clients or their representatives in a professional and secure manner.
  • Accounts Receivable: Support the management of accounts receivable by tracking outstanding balances, sending reminders, and working with the wider team to keep aged debt within targets.
  • Purchase Ledger: Check, code, and process purchase invoices accurately and in a timely manner, assisting in the reconciliation of supplier statements.
  • Financial Reporting: Assist in the preparation of regular financial and performance reports for the senior management team and board of directors, contributing to data accuracy and presentation.
  • Administrative Support: Provide general administrative assistance to the Finance department, including filing, data entry, document handling, and responding to routine queries.

Where you'll work

1C MITRE COURT
38 LICHFIELD ROAD
SUTTON COLDFIELD
B74 2LZ

Training

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

Training provider

BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE

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

  • On a Level 2 Accounts/Finance Apprenticeship, the apprentice will undertake 20% of their working hours undertaking off the job training. This covers the core principles of bookkeeping, accounting processes, and financial administration. 
  • The training is delivered through a combination of on-the-job experience and structured learning sessions at the workplace and via online classroom lessons delivered by BMet Sutton Coldfield College.
  • If required, Functional Skills in English and maths will be completed prior to the End-Point Assessment.
  • On successful completion, the apprentice will achieve the Level 2 Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprenticeship Standard, which usually includes a recognised professional qualification such as the AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting (Level 2) . This provides a solid foundation for progression to higher-level

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

  • English (grade Grade 4/C or above)
  • Maths (grade Grade 4/C or above)

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
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

This employer is looking for an immediate start, therefore please only apply if you are available to start employment with immediate effect. Please ensure that you have researched your travel arrangements and are happy with the time it will take, and distance required to travel, before you apply for this vacancy.

About this employer

Nexus Care Services is a family-run, private home care provider based in Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield and Tamworth, whose core mission is simple: focus all efforts and resources on the people that matter most – those receiving and providing care.

https://nexuscareservices.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Potential for further training / full time employment for the right candidate.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE

BMet Recruitment Team

recruitment@bmet.ac.uk

0121 362 1122

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338435.

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Closes in 10 days (Friday 5 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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