Apprentice Advisor Finance Service Desk
North Lincolnshire Council
Scunthorpe (DN15 6NL)
Closes in 10 days (Monday 29 June 2026)
Posted on 19 June 2026
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Summary
As a part the Council’s Financial Services, you will play a role in the day-to-day administration of our financial operations. Working across two teams the Finance Service Desk, supporting Accounts Payable and Receivable; and the Financial Systems Team, supporting with income management, bank reconciliation and our financial systems
- Wage
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£15,392 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 4.30pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 29 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- 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
- Provide financial support and assistance to staff and service users in accordance with the relevant Authority's financial policies and procedures.
- Investigate and respond to routine & transactional financial queries as appropriate or refer more complex queries to senior colleagues
- Produce financial information for service management, internal and external clients on appropriate media.
- Allocate income accurately, ensuring VAT is correctly accounted for.
- Assist in the bank reconciliation process.
- Process and complete a range of financial transactions including journals, virements and authorised invoices into the creditor & debtors system, supplier queries, invoice scanning and matching to purchase orders, having regard to the Council's policies and VAT requirements.
- Assist in satisfying creditor and debtor queries both internally and externally.
- Process, format, collate and assemble documents, records, information and data. including information and data gathering for corporate returns ensuring set deadlines are met.
- Post cash and cheques whether arising from cash receipting or bank files, including manual posting where appropriate for example bank file rejects. Arranging refund payments for customer overpayments as appropriate.
- Reconciling all input and output from the creditors, debtors and cash receipting processes and systems.
- Check the output from payment runs, ensuring the correct printing of cheques and/or BAGS payments and ensuring remittance advices are matched as appropriate for postal/fax/email remittances.
- Verification of the cheque control sheet with cheques issued and spoiled.
- Reimburse petty cash and bank Imprest claims
- Assist budget holders in financial planning and the preparation and monitoring of low risk/low complexity budgets including closedown procedures, providing financial advice to service users as required
- Update, interrogate and maintain financial systems using appropriate technology and interrogation tools, including maintenance of data integrity.
- Assist in the completion of financial returns including statistical and grant claims and performance measures under guidance.
Where you'll work
Church Square House 30-40
High Street
Scunthorpe
DN15 6NL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DN COLLEGES GROUP
Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
To be confirmed
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A - C or 4 + or equivalent)
- Maths (grade A - C or 4 + or equivalent)
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
- Customer care skills
- Number skills
- Team working
About this employer
North Lincolnshire Council have an aspiration to make North Lincolnshire the best place to live, work, visit and invest. We have built a strong working relationships in the pursuit of the realisation of this ambition and have delivered many successful employment and skills programmes over recent years, working hard to secure positive outcomes for our residents.
Company benefits
Staff Discounts
Access to Pensions
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
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
The opportunity to progess into an accounts assistant role.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
North Lincolnshire Council
Claire Hobley
claire.hobley@northlincs.gov.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037773.
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Closes in 10 days (Monday 29 June 2026)
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