Apprenticeship - Finance (Housing Sector)

Sage Homes

Northampton (NN1 5PA)

Closes in 14 days (Monday 5 January 2026)

Posted on 22 December 2025

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Summary

As a Finance Apprentice within Sage Homes, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of key financial processes, controls and regulations, a diversity of financial processes, and important deadlines. Whilst learning on the job you will also explore customer service and office administration.

Wage

£22,000 a year

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30

38 hours a week

Start date

Monday 2 March 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

  • Transactional Finance: Learn about the key transactional finance activities including invoice processing, AI reader technology, supplier payments, dispute resolutions, processing incoming payments for rents, and processes surrounding the reconciliation activities, including Shared Ownership completion statements
  • Office Administration & General Enquiries: Develop skills in planning and managing administrative tasks, through tasks such as team and Insurance mailboxes, organising and prioritising of workloads, GDPR compliance, scanning, providing insurance certificates to internal stakeholders, supporting the open claims process and developing your excel skills
  • Project Planning: Develop skills in planning and managing finance-related projects, including report writing and the management of spreadsheets to track and report progress, alongside associated project leads
  • Financial Control: By working across our finance team and supporting a range of tasks and activities, you will build your understanding of the importance of financial control across the business, and how our policies, procedures and controls fit together
  • Treasury: Learn about the management of sage bank accounts and treasury matters within the housing sector, along with an understanding of the bank account matrix within Sage
  • Management Accounting Learn and support balance sheet reconciliations, internal audit compliance, copy invoices and prepayments
  • Professional Development: Engage in professional development activities and participate in remote or classroom-based learning sessions

Where you'll work

Lancaster House
Nunn Mills Road
Northampton
NN1 5PA

Training

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

Training provider

KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED

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

  • You will also gain the skills, knowledge and behaviours through off the job training which will include either remote sessions each month, along with assessments and wider learning that could include workplace training, e-learning, research, and completion of assignments
  • You will be required to spend at least six hours a week on off-the-job training to meet the course requirements

Requirements

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

  • Standard DBS 
  • 5 Days in the office in Northampton 
  • Media and Social Media Check

About this employer

Sage Homes is an innovative Blackstone and Regis business addressing the housing crisis in England by making good homes affordable for people across the country who need them. Since 2017 we have delivered around 17,000 new homes across affordable rent, shared ownership and social rent for individuals and families. In 2021 Sage Homes became the largest provider of new affordable housing in England, and we continue to deliver high quality affordable homes across the country. We have invested more than £3 billion into high-quality affordable housing. Our entrepreneurial spirit combined with our technical expertise has got us to where we are today and will enable future sustainable growth.

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

Company benefits

  • 25 days holiday, and an additional day for every year's service (up to five years)
  • A health cash plan, financial support for a range of options including physiotherapy, opticians, dental
  • Workplace Pension

Disability Confident

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

  • Move into a permenant position within financial control, this could be within the revenue team, accounts payable team or another one of our transactional finance teams

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000006348.

Apply now

Closes in 14 days (Monday 5 January 2026)

After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.