Finance Apprentice
EPS (UK) LIMITED
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (NG2 3GT)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 21 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 July 2025
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Summary
Support the finance team with bookkeeping, credit control, expenses, order processing, stock and systems management, and admin tasks. Gain hands-on experience with invoicing, MRP software, and monthly reporting in a dynamic on-site role at EPS Nottingham.
- Wage
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£17,000 a year
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, between 7:30am to 4:30pm. Friday, 7:30am to 11:30am.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 28 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 5 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
- Bookkeeping: Assist in the processing and entering of all incoming and outgoing invoices into the accounting software and allocating to open projects
- Credit Control: Sending statements to customers and chasing debtors when required
- Petty cash management: Ensuring receipts reconcile, and complete monthly tracking
- Expenses claims: Processing & reconciling company credit card expenses
- Order processing: Liaising with the production team to raise and track customer and supplier orders through the MRP software
- Liaising with freight agents to arrange the import and export of goods internationally
- Assist in the management of the MRP system through the processing of production route cards and stock management
- Supporting the finance team with producing monthly and quarterly financial reporting
- Administrative Support: Providing general administrative support to the accounting department, such as filing, data entry, and scanning
Where you'll work
UNIT N-O
FREETH STREET
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG2 3GT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Your training plan
The Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship standard includes 6 AAT exams, in addition to the Synoptic Assessment as part of the End-Point Assessment (EPA) process.
The knowledge units will be delivered at the EMA training hub in Derby, Leicester or Nottingham (depending on the apprentices’ location) through day release.
AAT Modules are as follows:
- Introduction to Bookkeeping (Level 2 Unit)
- Principles of Bookkeeping (Level 2 Unit)
- Management Accounting Techniques
Financial Accounting:
- Preparing Financial Statements
- Business Awareness
- Tax Processes for Business
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
5 GCSE's including Maths and English (grade 5/B or above)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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
About EPS (UK) Ltd was founded by Brian Mckean (Snr) in 1985 as Brian Mckean Associates and changed it's name to EPS (UK) Ltd in 2007. For 35 years we have supported switchgear manufacturers, DNO's, and rail networks on complex projects around the world. Operating from a 12,000ft manufacturing facilility in the UK we design, manufacture, and assemble magnetic actuators, circuit breakers, switchboards, and 25kV containerised substations for prestigious clients on innovative and bespoke projects. As the global patent holder for the Mag-Latch bi-stable magnetic actuator we have supported internationally renowned switchgear manufacturers like ABB in their development of the FSKII+ single pole circuit breaker (used extensively on the UK rail network), the ABB VM1 breaker used on UK MOD vessels, and the actuator is used at the KEMA High Power test laboratory No 6 in Arnhem, Netherlands. EPS (UK) is proud to have assisted clients in their development of some of the most reliable medium voltage circuit breakers in the industry, increasing their reliability and performance with our maintainance-free actuator. Brian Mckean founded Switchgear Substation Alliance (SSA) in 2015 to deliver the CP5 framework to design, assemble, and deliver 25kV traction substations for the North-West Electrification Project in the UK. EPS (UK) are proponents of SF6-free switchgear and are proud to have designed Containerised Air Insulated Switchgear solution used for rail electrification in the UK.
After this apprenticeship
Opportunity for a full-time position within the team upon completion of the apprenticeship programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EMA TRAINING LIMITED
Jess Mitchell
apply@ematraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329734.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 21 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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