Accounts/Finance Assistant (AAT) Level 2 Apprenticeship
JACK COUPE & SONS LTD
Shildon (DL4 1HG)
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 31 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 August 2025
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Summary
Join our team as an Apprentice Finance & Payroll Administrator. You’ll learn finance, bookkeeping, payroll, and office admin while supporting a well-established business. An excellent opportunity to build valuable skills in a friendly, professional environment.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Pay will be reviewed at the end of the first year, subject to successful completion of exams and satisfactory performance, with the potential for an increase.
- Training course
- Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm
39 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
- Shadow senior staff to learn finance and admin processes
- Assist with entering invoices and receipts into accounting software
- Help reconcile bank statements with company records
- Support payroll processing
- Prepare and send routine business correspondence (emails, letters)
- File and organise documents (digital and paper-based)
- Complete apprenticeship training tasks and keep logbooks up to date
Where you'll work
Jack Coupe Sons Ltd
Unit 7 Hackworth Industrial Park
Shildon
DL4 1HG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEW COLLEGE DURHAM
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
Accounts or Finance Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard:
The Level 2 Certificate in Accounting covers a broad range of core accounting skills, as well as accountancy-related business skills and personal skills.
Key themes have also been introduced throughout the suite of accounting qualifications, including technology, ethics, sustainability and communication.
Modules Studied:
The qualification comprises four mandatory units:
- Introduction to Bookkeeping
- Principles of Bookkeeping Controls
- Principles of Costing
- The Business Environment
Teaching and Assessment:
- You will attend New College Durham one day a week for lectures and practical sessions
- All assessments are via online examinations
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 5)
- Other (grade 5)
- Other (grade 5)
- Other (grade 5)
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
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Initiative
About this employer
Jack Coupe & Sons Ltd is a well-established, family-run business specialising in road marking, hydroblasting, line removal, and the manufacture of line marking materials. Based in the North of England, we serve clients across the UK, delivering high-quality, safety-critical services to local authorities, contractors, and private sector clients. With over 40 years of industry experience, we pride ourselves on our professionalism, innovation, and commitment to excellence. We invest in our people, equipment, and training to ensure we remain at the forefront of road surface technology. As a forward-thinking employer, we offer exciting opportunities for apprentices to gain real-world experience, develop specialist skills, and build long-term careers in a supportive and dynamic environment.
After this apprenticeship
- Secure, long-term employment as a Finance & Payroll Administrator
- Opportunity for incremental increases in responsibility and pay.
- Option to take on specialist tasks (e.g., pensions, VAT returns, or management accounts support)
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEW COLLEGE DURHAM
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337585.
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Closes in 12 days (Sunday 31 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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