Level 2 Accounts Apprentice

WELIN LAMBIE LTD

BRIERLEY HILL (DY5 1UB)

Closes in 14 days (Friday 12 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 28 August 2025

Print

Contents

Summary

The Accounts Administrator will be assisting with a wide range of tasks, within the finance team here at Welin Lambie.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

Check minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 07:30 - 16:30. Friday, 07:30 - 13:30.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 15 September 2025

Duration

1 year 3 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

Welin Lambie produces and maintains davit systems for many contracts across America. These are long term contracts that take months to build. A davit is a crane on the side of a boat that releases small crafts and lifeboats.

Tasks:

  • General adminstrative support (filing/ answering calls)
  • Checking banking paperwork against the ledger
  • Assist purchase ledger process (matching invoices/ reconciling entered invoices)
  • Assist sales ledger process (reconciling entered sales invoices)
  • Keeping sage records up to date (data entry skills- making sure all invoices/payments are entered into the accounting system)
  • Processing transactions accurately and efficiently.
  • Performing adhoc finance tasks as required

Skills:

  • Communication skills (writing emails externally and internally across the business)
  • Organisational skills (to be meeting month end shut down dates with inputting data)
  • Team Player (we are a small team that works well together, which sometimes means picking up adhoc tasks to help out)

Where you'll work

BRITANIA HOUSE
OLD BUSH STREET
BRIERLEY HILL
DY5 1UB

Training

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

Training provider

DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

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

You will be required to attend The Broadway Campus, Dudley College, 1 day per week in term time only.

  • You will be assigned an assessor who will visit you in the workplace every 8 weeks to support you with your apprenticeship
  • You will receive a Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant qualification upon successful completion of your apprenticeship

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade C/4/Level 2 Functional Skills)
  • Maths (grade C/4/Level 2 Functional Skills)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working
  • Flexible
  • Confident

Other requirements

We are a small finance team of 3 currently, so tasks will be a wide range across the accounting function.

About this employer

Welin Lambie Ltd is a leading UK based designer, manufacturer and service provider of Davits, Launch and Recovery Systems, Complex Handling Solutions, Weapons and Cargo Lifts, Elevators, Deck Equipment and Water Makers for the global marine and offshore industry. Founded in 1901, but welcomed into the Fairbanks Morse Defense family in 2021, Welin Lambie has proudly played its part in supporting the UK economy and UK supply chain by exporting up to 90% of its products.

http://www.fairbanksmorsedefense.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

To continue working as a full time member of the team after apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Chloe Powell

Chloe.Powell@dudleycol.ac.uk

01384 363158

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000339213.

Apply now

Closes in 14 days (Friday 12 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Sign in with your GOV.UK One Login to apply.