Apprentice Accounts and Payroll Assistant

HEENEY CIVILS LIMITED

ENGLAND (WA9 3DL)

Closes in 10 days (Thursday 9 April 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 27 March 2026

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Summary

  • We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for everything Payroll and Accounts to join our team in our friendly St Helens Office. The successful candidate will work alongside our Accounts and Payroll team, learning start to end payroll, sales and purchase ledger

Wage

£16,640 to £26,436.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday- Friday 9am- 5pm

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 13 April 2026

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

  • Learning the payroll process from start to finish, our payroll is processed through Sage Payroll
  • Learning about payroll administration including pensions etc.
  • Assisting with entering hours from timesheets into payroll data sheets to format the weekly payroll
  • Learning how to raise sales invoices through Sage 50, shadowing the accounts team until condiment to work alone assisting with both the accounts and payroll team

Where you'll work

66A SUTTON ROAD
ST HELENS
MERSEYSIDE
ENGLAND
WA9 3DL

Training

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

Training provider

ST HELENS 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

The apprentice will attend weekly at St Helens College (During term time)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade A-C or 4-9)

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
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

  • We are in a shared open office with 7 members of staff

About this employer

  • Heeney Civils Ltd was established in 2005. We are a Recruitment Agency for the Construction Industry supplying over 150 men over various projects across the UK.  Our Team is friendly and helpful, and all get along well, we do not have a regular turn over of staff our longest serving member has been here for 10 years

http://www.heeneycivilsltd.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Payroll Clerk or Accounts/Bookkeeping

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ST HELENS COLLEGE

Carolyn Mason

appenquiry@sthelens.ac.uk

01744623521

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000023618.

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Closes in 10 days (Thursday 9 April 2026 at 11:59pm)