Accounts/Finance Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship

Summary

Exciting opportunity to learn and grow with a new, supportive team. We're looking for a diligent, keen apprentice, eager to learn and become an integral part of the Central Team. An excellent opportunity and notably we will support them with a higher than standard apprenticeship salary. Further progression may be available to the right candidate.

Wage

£20,916 a year

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£12.45 per hour

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday - exact times to be agreed with successful candidate.

35 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Duration

1 year 4 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

The apprentice will be supported and learn to complete daily finance and admin tasks alongside longer term projects. This will include;

Working on the Sage 200 finance system
Matching payments and receipts to the Trust Bank account,
Investigating queries
Bank reconciliations
Setting up BACs payment runs
Processing purchase invoices and sales invoices
Checking supplier statements
Liaising with suppliers and school admin staff
Ensuring records are up-to-date for audit purposes
Data input
Data research to support financial projects
Answering the Central Team phone
Supporting with Finance Team emails
Learning and using Office 365 and Teams

Where you'll work

Stonebow Road
Drakes Broughton
Pershore
WR10 2AW

Training

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

College or training organisation

HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Your 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.

Your training plan

Formal training is delivered at HWGTA, located in Worcester (WR4 9GN).

You will receive training one day per week which is a combination of face-to-face and remote, as per your assigned training plan.

Additional training for functional skills in English and Maths will be undertaken if needed.

You will receive monthly visits from your assigned Learning and Development Specialist, who will set you work, monitor your development and wellbeing, and discuss training sessions. They will also prepare you for your End Point Assessment to gain your Accounts / Finance Assistant Level 2 qualification.

There is also a five-day teambuilding residential trip that is held in the spring of each year offered to all apprentices on programme.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 5)
Maths (grade 5)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Kindness
Loyalty
Hard-working
Level-headed

Other requirements

Geographical location of office in Drakes Broughton, Candidate must drive.

About this company

This is an exciting time for the Diocese of Worcester Multi Academy Trust as we continue to grow and support academies throughout Worcestershire and Dudley. The Diocese of Worcester Multi Academy Trust aspires, through its mission statement of ‘to love, to learn, to serve’, to enable all DoWMAT academies to flourish so that our whole community can ‘live life in all its fullness’. (John 10:10).

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After this apprenticeship

Progression to higher-level courses for the right candidate.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Hayley Grismond

hayley.grismond@hwgta.org

01432377010

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000320612.

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Closes in 21 days (Thursday 5 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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