Finance Assistant Apprentice

Summary

We are seeking a finance apprentice that can support processing invoices, purchase orders, maintaining customer and supplier accounts, and much more. This will be your first step in becoming AAT qualified through our apprenticeship with weekly learning at Leeds City College.

Wage

£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Hours

Mon - Fri, 9am until 2pm

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 18 August 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

Process purchase invoices, including coding, price verification, and uploading to Sage 50
Run Monthly payment batches and reconcile supplier statements
Match purchase orders and delivery notes to invoices
Upload and process sales invoices into Sage 50, ensuring pricing accuracy
Set up and maintain supplier and customer accounts
Reconcile customer and supplier ledgers and resolve discrepancies
Prepare monthly costing reports for internal review
Perform daily bank reconciliations and create online payments
Assist with month-end journals and reporting
Support generation of management invoices using bespoke software
Carry out ad hoc finance admin and support tasks as needed
Responsible for petty cash, posting journals and reconciling
Assisting with credit control, ensuring customer payments are made within agreed terms. This will involve building strong customer relationships and quickly resolving queries to prevent payment delays
Scanning, filing and logging account documents
Completing and submitting tax returns, VAT returns and National Insurance contributions
General admin duties, emails, phone calls
Assisting with payroll and staff holidays and sickness

Where you'll work

396 YORK ROAD
LEEDS
LS9 9ED

Training

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

College or training organisation

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

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

Monday - Friday, 9am until 2pm.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

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
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

• Please apply for the role as soon as possible, we are interviewing suitable candidates as and when we receive applications. Therefore, the role may close before the advertised closing date.

About this company

Our family has been perfecting the art of baking for six decades, making scrumptious and beautiful bread for our customers across the Leeds area. If you are looking for great cakes, sandwiches and freshly baked bread (or even a cooked breakfast!) come along to our branches at Stainburn, Whitehall Road and York Road. Let us know if you would like us to make something special for you. We can custom bake it for you – and that goes for events and wholesale customers too. We believe that bakers should go that extra mile to make you smile!

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

After this apprenticeship

Progression to a permanent position at the end of a successful apprenticeship is highly likely

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