Finance apprentice

LONDON SOUTH EAST ACADEMIES TRUST

Kent (BR2 8HE)

Closes on Wednesday 10 December 2025

Posted on 22 October 2025

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Summary

This role is an opportunity to work in a finance team while earning a salary and gaining hands-on experience in areas like budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.

Wage

£6,281.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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£7.55

Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
2 days per week between Monday -Thursday, Shifts to be confirmed.

16 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 16 December 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

  • Ensuring Postings are correctly allocated in the General Ledger
  • Credit Control actions (Ensuring that aged debts are chased)
  • Assisting with supplier queries
  • Support Merchandiser with ensuring stock reconciliations
  • Updating and maintaining stock sheets
  • Support with open PO and intake reconciliations (Setting up and amending PO's)
  • Ad Hoc support with reporting
  • Updating and maintaining KPI Dashboards

Where you'll work

Bromley College Rookery Lane
Bromley
Kent
BR2 8HE

Training

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

Training provider

LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES

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

Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard

More training information

Every Tuesday at the Orpington Campus  and use of mindful platform

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths (grade Grades 4-9 (A*- C))

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths & English (grade Grades 4-9 (A*- C))

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

Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Patience

About this employer

Dr.PAWPAW, originators of multipurpose beauty, is a family owned British brand. Created in 2013 by husband and wife team Johnny and Pauline Paterson as a natural solution to soothe their daughter's eczema. Today Dr.PAWPAW is the winner of 40+ global awards and active in 20 countries. The brand's range of award-winning, natural, vegan, cruelty-free, multipurpose products are for everyone. Harnessing the power of the PAWPAW fruit, its hero ingredient, for lips, skin, hair, beauty finishing, cuticles and nails. In the last year, the brand partnered with Marks and Spencer to create a collaborative product with Percy Pig, as well as with Universal for a Wicked-Inspired lip care range.

http://drpawpaw.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Potential for full time employment in finance team

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES

Evelyn Nartey

evelyn.nartey@lsec.ac.uk

02039544152

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347850.

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Closes on Wednesday 10 December 2025

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