General Accounts Apprenticeship

A.CLARKE & CO.(SMETHWICK)LIMITED

West Midlands (B69 4LU)

Closes in 21 days (Friday 14 November 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 23 October 2025

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Summary

A unique family-run business are looking to take on a General Accounts Apprentice to work within their team. As part of your position, you will support the finance team with day-to-day accounting tasks, continually developing your skills, knowledge, and experience through the completion of your apprenticeship.

Wage

£13,741 to £22,222.20, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm with 1 hour lunch.

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 December 2025

Duration

1 year 6 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

  • Assist with processing high volumes of supplier invoices (fuel, vehicle maintenance, logistic services), and maintaining accurate purchase and sales ledgers
  • Support in the preparation of monthly management accounts
  • Assist to produce weekly and monthly financial reports, including cash flow updates
  • Reconcile bank statements and track incoming/outgoing payments
  • Support with production of VAT returns and other regulatory submissions
  • Assist in raising customer invoices
  • Liaise with internal departments and external customers/suppliers to resolve invoice queries
  • Maintain accurate, organised, and up-to-date financial records for audit and compliance purposes
  • Answer incoming telephone calls, take messages and re-direct calls
  • Communicate in a clear, polite and concise manner with colleagues/customers in all departments as required by the demands of the business
  • Provide general administrative support to the finance team
  • Continually develop skills, knowledge, and experience, through completion of the apprenticeship, as directed by the Finance Manager, to a satisfactory level and timescales, in accordance with Company requirements
  • To complete any other reasonable duties as instructed by the management team

Where you'll work

Station Road
Oldbury
West Midlands
B69 4LU

Training

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

Training provider

KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED

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 Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 5)
  • Maths (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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working

Other requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need a keen interest in accounting and finance administration and a commitment to the apprenticeship. You will also need a minimum of 5 GCSEs at level 5 or above.

About this employer

Professional expertise, 90 years of experience, a commitment to quality and unrivalled customer service have really put Clarke on the map. We offer economy to next day deliveries services in the UK as well as managed services to Ireland and Europe. Long-term partnerships are at the heart of our business. We help your business grow, whilst taking care of your logistics requirements. We have a dedicated team for services in both the UK and Ireland which enables us to offer premium levels of services to our customers, ensuring our clients’ needs are met and dealt with quickly and efficiently.

https://clarketransport.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

 20 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays  Auto-enrolment Pension Scheme  Death in Service Insurance Cover  Private Medical Insurance  Access to an Employee Discounts Programme “The Hub”

After this apprenticeship

  • The role will be dynamic and varied, rotating, and changing as business needs require. You will have the opportunity to move round the different teams in finance to support you in shaping your career following completion of the apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

A.CLARKE & CO.(SMETHWICK)LIMITED

HR

ClarkesHR@clarketransport.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347834.

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Closes in 21 days (Friday 14 November 2025 at 11:59pm)

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