Finance Apprentice
Birmingham Hospice
Birmingham (B29 7DA)
Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 26 August 2025)
Posted on 12 August 2025
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Summary
Take the first step toward a rewarding future in finance. Gain hands-on experience, develop valuable skills and a qualification, whilst contributing to a cause that truly matters. This is your opportunity to earn while you learn, gaining a gold standard qualification and valuable experience, building your career in finance—without the student debt.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday 9am to 5pm. No weekend or evening working.
37 hours 30 minutes 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
- Sales and purchase ledger
- Cash handling
- Supporting the wider finance team
- Learning and being mentored directly from experienced professionals
Where you'll work
176 Raddlebarn Road
Birmingham
B29 7DA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH & CITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM
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.
Training schedule
Commitment required to study and achieve the AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting, or Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship Level 3 (if foundation certificate already achieved) keeping on track with the studying standards, requirements and commitments throughout the apprenticeship.
More training information
Day release one day a week.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 3 more in any subject (grade 4 (C) or above)
- English (grade 4 (C)
- Maths (grade 4 (C) or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted 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
Other requirements
• Great communicator with strong IT and numeracy skills • Detail-oriented and organised • An enjoyment of working with numbers • A natural problem-solver • Reliable and able to commit to apprenticeship working and studying
About this employer
Birmingham Hospice provides expert palliative and end of life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses. We believe that all people in Birmingham should have access to the best specialist care and support – when, where and how they need it. Our vision is a future where everyone with a life-limiting illness will live and die with dignity and in comfort. Our mission is to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life. During a recent CQC inspection our Erdington site was rated ‘outstanding’, with independent health care regulators highlighting that colleagues and services are caring, responsive and well-led. Our outstanding teams are passionate about providing the very best care, and patients and their loved ones are at the heart of everything we do. Our culture and values Our values of kindness, respect, innovation, togetherness, positivity and openness are at the centre of who we are, what we do and how we behave. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, welcoming, caring and supportive team. Equality, diversity and inclusion policy The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse workforce, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim. We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.
https://www.birminghamhospice.org.uk/about-us/join-us/ (opens in new tab)
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
- Accounts Assistant
- Finance Assistant
- Management Accountant
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Birmingham Hospice
Anna-Maria Shiels
anna-marie.shiels@birminghamhospice.org.uk
07816250543
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336438.
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Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 26 August 2025)
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