Finance Administrator Apprentice
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL
London (WC2B 5PH)
Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 24 September 2025)
Posted on 10 September 2025
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Summary
Are you keen to pursue a career in Finance? Then come and be part of our team at LFS, as an Apprentice Finance Administrator. We will support you to achieve a Level 4 Professional Accounting Technician qualification, while you have the opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and exciting environment that celebrates and nurtures the art of filmmaking.
- Wage
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£31,000 a year
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9:30am to 5:30pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 15 October 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 of supplier invoices, staff expenses and student production allowances as well as processing the weekly payment run.
- Managing the Purchase Order system to ensure accurate coding, narrative and timely processing.
- Manage the Accounts Payable mailbox.
- Assist students in prop hire for productions and reconciliation.
- Review credit card statements to ensure correct receipts, relevant supporting documentation and correct coding, as well as the monthly reconciliation thereof.
- Set up new suppliers and update existing accounts with a full audit trail.
- Set up new student accounts.
- Accurately process the receipts from students (via Flywire).
- Correctly allocate income received to customer accounts and update the school’s online payment portal.
- Allocate student deposits and liaise with the Registry department to update student payment profiles.
- Process and scrutinise data to verify any discrepancies.
- Support the month-end process.
Where you'll work
39 41 Parker Street
London
WC2B 5PH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS 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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade B/6)
- Maths (grade B/6)
Other 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
You will be aged 22+ (this is a stipulation of the BT Apprenticeship levy transfer scheme, of which LFS is a part).
About this employer
London Film School is the oldest post-graduate film school in the UK and is known for its innovative and creative approach to teaching.
https://lfs.org.uk/who-we-are/jobs-at-lfs (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
The candidate would have the possibility of having a permanent role at London Film School.
The candidate could pursue various career paths, such at CIMA, CTA, ACA, etc.
The candidate could also explore further study such as Assistant Auditor, Financial Accountant, Management Accountant and more.
These pathways provide a solid foundation to have a successful career in accounting and finance.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS LIMITED
recruitment@lfs.org.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341390.
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Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 24 September 2025)
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