Junior Finance Executive AAT Apprentice at Hanbury strategy
HANBURY STRATEGY AND COMMUNICATIONS LTD
London (SE1 9RA)
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 16 November 2025)
Posted on 23 October 2025
Contents
Summary
The Junior Finance Executive is essential to supporting the day to day running of The Finance Team. The Junior Finance Executive is a key point of contact in the Finance Team and is responsible for ensuring an efficient and effective handling of transactional finance operations.
- Wage
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£24,000 a year
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 17 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- 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
The key skills and competencies associated with the executive role are detailed below. This role will work in supporting the Finance operations for Hanbury Strategy, and their sister company Stack Data Strategy. This role requires a minimum of four days a week in the office, situated in London Bridge and one day a week at college.
Executive Role:
Core Competencies
Administration of Accounting Systems & Processes:
- Responsible for ensuring all electronic invoices and expenses are approved by the relevant approvers
- Responsible for ensuring all credit card claims are correctly coded and supported with VAT receipts
- Responsible for being alert to issues of lost/stolen cards and fraud
- Ensuring prompt and timely management of credit card queries, including ensuring prepaid cards are topped up
- Responsible for ensuring expense claims are supported by VAT receipts, and following up with staff in instances where they are missing
- To support the Assistant Accountant / Assistant Management Accountant in coding and posting purchase invoices to Sage
- To support the management of the Finance Team email inboxes. Ensuring enquiries are handled promptly and effectively and are responded to within two working days
- Support the assistant accountant in preparing monthly overhead reports for budget holders
- Responsible for carrying out monthly reconciliations of supplier statements, ensuring accounts with negative balances are queried and resolved
- To complete weekly bank reconciliations for both Hanbury Strategy and Stack Data Strategy
- Responsible for ensuring the fi ling systems (e.g. direct debit invoices fi led) are kept up to date
- Ensuring supplier details are accurate and up to date in Sage
- Support in preparing bi-monthly payment runs, including checking supplier bank details, checking payment terms and gathering copy invoices
- Working closely with the Office Operations team and assistant accountant to ensure fixed asset register is up to date
- Attending monthly subscription meeting to ensure the Finance team maintains up to date records of company subscriptions
Where you'll work
2 London Bridge
London
SE1 9RA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE WKCIC GROUP
Training course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Training schedule
Assistant Accountant Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4-9)
- Maths (grade 4-9)
NVQ or SVQ Level 2 or equivalent 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
Other requirements
Skills test to complete once shortlisted MUST HAVE AAT LEVEL 2
About this employer
Hanbury is a strategic advisory firm that turns insight into impact. Whether you face a communications challenge or have a policy goal, our exceptional team uses our understanding of public opinion, the press and politics to create campaigns that work. Since launching in 2016, we have advised some of the most recognised brands and fastest-growing companies in the world on their biggest reputational, policy and regulatory challenges.
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent position possibly available upon completion
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE WKCIC GROUP
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000348011.
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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 16 November 2025)
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