Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprentice (Level 2)

AMSDEN YOUNG LTD

Loughborough (LE11 3GE)

Closes in 18 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 September 2025

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Summary

The role involves data entry, maintaining financial records, processing invoices, reconciling bank statements, assisting with payroll, handling administrative tasks, and supporting month-end and year-end financial tasks.

Wage

£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 6 October 2025

Duration

1 year 4 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

  • Assisting with daily financial transactions, including data entry and maintaining accurate records using accounting software
  • Processing invoices, and supporting the reconciliation of bank statements
  • Supporting payroll preparation and contributing to month-end and year-end financial reporting tasks
  • Performing general administrative duties such as filing, responding to finance-related queries, and organising financial documents

Where you'll work

Epinal Way
Loughborough
LE11 3GE

Training

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

Training provider

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

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

Attendance at college will be required one morning session per week, to study embedded units:

  • Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting
  • Level 2 Diploma in Financial and Management Accounting
  • Level 2 Certificate in Bookkeeping

Apprenticeship session to assist with portfolio building and preparation for End Point Assessment.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English and Maths (grade C/4 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
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental

About this employer

Accountancy & taxation services.

http://www.amsdenyoung.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

28 days annual leave (including bank holidays), work from home on a Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.

After this apprenticeship

To move onto Level 3 Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

Sophia Cleaver

apprenticeships@loucoll.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341853.

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Closes in 18 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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