Accounts Assistant – Apprentice
S & A ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD
BOLTON (BL2 3DW)
Closes on Sunday 31 August 2025
Posted on 15 July 2025
Contents
Summary
S 7 A Engineering Services Ltd are looking to recruit a full-time Accounts Assistant Apprentice. You will work towards an AAT Level 2 with Bolton College on a day release basis.
- Wage
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£9,815 to £15,873, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 9.30am - 2.30pm
25 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- 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
Job Role:
- Sending invoices to customers
- Credit control on a weekly basis
- Balancing accounts
- Inputting supplier invoices on to the ledger and into Sage
- Allocating supplier payments and sending remittance advise
Misc:
- VAT reconciliations
- Balancing supplier/customer accounts
- Petty cash & credit card reconciliation
- Dealing with email enquiries
- Production of office templates
- Maintaining office order
- Help with marketing the company online
- Annual assistance with document control
- Assistance with monthly payroll
- Creation of a CRM system with assistance from the sales team
Where you'll work
UNIT 2
BRADSHAW WORKS
PRINTERS LANE
BOLTON
BL2 3DW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BOLTON COLLEGE
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
Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9)
- Maths (grade 4-9)
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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
About this company
S and A Engineering Services is a leading independent blower repair company based in the UK. We have established for nearly 30 years; aside from our broad technical expertise, we strive to offer high standards of service to our customers from onsite maintenance, in-house blower repairs and procurement of parts and machinery.
After this apprenticeship
- AAT Level 3
- AAT Level 4
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BOLTON COLLEGE
Rebecca Cornthwaite
Rebecca@blowerengineers.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331634.
Apply now
Closes on Sunday 31 August 2025
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