Finance Apprenticeship
REAL DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Croydon (CR0 4BD)
Closes in 21 days (Friday 24 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 October 2025
Contents
Summary
RDi requires a Finance Apprentice to join our team to achieve our ambitious growth in the coming years.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Professional accounting technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Depends on the training times but normally 3/4 days in the office and 1/2 days at college. These details will be confirmed according to the college course
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- 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
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB
RDi is a leading healthcare solutions provider for solving complex logistical and technological challenges for patient sample collections, to improve efficiency and quality of care for patients all around the world. If you are looking to start your career and are seeking a new challenge, then RDi is where you need to be. With a growing workforce and expanding requirements for remote patient sampling, RDi require a Finance Apprentice to join our team to achieve our ambitious growth in the coming years.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Finance Apprentice will provide support to the Finance Manager and the team while undertaking learning and development to progress with an AAT qualification over the term of the apprenticeship. This role involves working within the finance team to support accurate and timely processing of financial transactions and maintain the integrity of information in the financial system.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Supporting the processing of supplier invoices, handling and resolving queries as they arise.
- Liaising with others across the organisation to support order processing, goods receipting, authorisations and appropriate controls within the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes.
- Assisting in the accurate recording of sales invoicing, ensuring timely receipts of cash from customers and regularly monitoring the sales ledger more generally.
- To monitor and process emails as and when contacted by customers and suppliers.
- To assist in maintaining the nominal ledger cash accounts, including bank reconciliations and credit card reconciliations.
- Support the employee expenses reclaim process, including the processing of expense claims and entry on to the accounting system.
- To help maintain the integrity of information in the financial system.
- Undertake other regular and ad hoc accounting or administrative activities as required.
This role provides an excellent opportunity for an aspiring finance professional to gain practical experience while working towards a recognised qualification. If you have a passion for finance and a desire to learn, this apprenticeship could be the perfect fit!
COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS
- A positive, pro-active can-do attitude.
- Attempt to keep up to date with the ever-changing technological and social advances across the healthcare services industry.
- Have the ability to communicate clearly with strong and adaptable interpersonal skills.
Honest, trustworthy and reliable – demonstrate good integrity.
- Time management and ability to prioritise tasks to ensure customer and business needs are met.
- Have strong attention to detail.
- Remain calm and upbeat even in difficult circumstances, always looking for continuous improvement.
- Self-motivated and able to perform as part of a team, supporting their colleagues when required.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Working knowledge of MS Office and Outlook, most specifically Excel.
- Follow company Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety Procedures.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their manager.
Where you'll work
2 Queensway
Croydon
CR0 4BD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EAST SURREY COLLEGE
Training course
Professional accounting technician (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
- Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
- Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
- Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
- Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
- Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
- Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities, such as the financial accounting of single entities, limited companies or partnerships or management accounting activities for an organisation.
- Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making on the content of true and fair accounts, being alert to conditions that may indicate possible misstatement of financial information due to error or fraud, establishing the facts sensitively and being aware of unconscious bias.
- Interpret financial information for accounting purposes, such as using judgement to determine the correct way to report or account for transaction or undertaking ratio analysis.
- Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities, for example the improvement of personal working practices.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends, demonstrating a ‘right first time approach’.
- Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, and manage time effectively.
- Use accounting information to add value to the organisation through use of data visualisations, analysis and interpretation, and communicate financial information in a way that facilitates understanding for non-finance stakeholders.
- Communicate accounting information through a variety of media to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required, considering the risks and benefits to the organisation of social media and other digital applications.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver accounting tasks, recognising the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Right to Work and DBS.
About this employer
RDi is a leading healthcare solutions provider for solving complex logistical and technological challenges for patient sample collections, to improve efficiency and quality of care to patients all around the world.
After this apprenticeship
To join the RDi Team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REAL DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
HR
recruitment@real-digital.co.uk
02086037000
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344989.
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Closes in 21 days (Friday 24 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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