2027 Finance Apprentice - Templecombe
THALES UK LIMITED
Templecombe (BA8 0DH)
Closes on Wednesday 17 February 2027
Posted on 5 October 2026
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Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our finance team based in Templecombe. This role is a rare chance for a highly motivated individual to take on a role that has excellent career progression opportunities within Thales.
- Wage
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£24,000 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
• Performance related pay uplifts • Pension - Thales match, plus 1%, with a maximum contribution of 7% • Health Insurance - 50% of salary for 5 years
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 37 hours a week (8-hours Monday - Thursday, 5-hours Friday), exact working hours to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 September 2027
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
As a Finance Apprentice, you'll support a variety of finance activities across the business while gaining hands-on experience in a professional environment.
Your responsibilities may include:
- Supporting finance teams with day-to-day tasks and projects.
- Helping resolve timesheet and labour booking queries.
- Supporting the preparation and distribution of monthly financial reports.
- Assisting with cost, overhead and headcount reporting.
- Supporting budget planning, forecasting and reforecasting activities.
- Assisting with cost centre reviews and management reporting.
- Helping maintain accurate financial records and reconciliations.
- Supporting project finance activities, including cost transfers and project closures.
- Assisting with financial journals, accruals, prepayments and corrections.
- Supporting ad hoc finance projects and business activities as required.
- Producing reports and carrying out data analysis.
- Completing other finance-related tasks as required.
During the apprenticeship, you'll develop a strong understanding of finance processes, systems, and business operations.
Where you'll work
Ocean House
Throop Road
Templecombe
BA8 0DH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE APPRENTICE ACADEMY LIMITED
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
As part of this apprenticeship, you will:
- Study towards a Level 2 Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship (12 months), followed by a Level 3 Assistant Accountant (15 months)
- Complete your training with The Apprentice Academy, our lead training provider
- Learn through a virtual training programme
- Gain knowledge and skills in everyday accounting and finance activities
- Develop the confidence and competence to carry out finance tasks successfully
- Achieve an AAT Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting and a Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Accounting upon successful completion
Please note that you will need to pass the Level 2 apprenticeship before being able to progress onto the Level 3. Both programmes need to be completed for the role.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
Because of the work we do at Thales, all roles are subject to security requirements.
To be considered for this position, you must have the permanent right to work in the UK and be able to successfully complete and maintain UK Government security checks, including Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening and Security Clearance (SC), which is a government background check, before starting employment.
To be eligible for SC clearance, you will typically need to have lived in the UK continuously for the last five years. As part of the vetting process, you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, right to work in the UK, any time spent overseas during the last five years, and your employment and/or education history.
For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.
About this employer
Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.
https://careers.thalesgroup.com/global/en/united-kingdom-careers#Uk-Future-talent (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
• 201 hours annual leave (plus a company day and bank holidays) • Healthcare Cash Plan • 80 hours (10 days) volunteering in your first 2 years depending on length of programme • Discount Portal
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).
You will be expected to progress onto higher level learning and will become an account assistant in our finance team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THALES UK LIMITED
Thales Future Talent Team
futuretalent@uk.thalesgroup.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000057272.
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Closes on Wednesday 17 February 2027
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