Purchase Ledger Apprentice
Unitech Group
Burntwood (WS7 0AL)
Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 4 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 20 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Unitech are looking for a Purchase Ledger Apprentice to join their Accounts Team. Experience working in an office is preferred but not essential and Excellent communication skills and professionalism is required as in time you will be liaising with external organisations, customers and internal staff.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Assistant accountant (level 3)
- Hours
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The working hours are 8.30am-5pm Mon-Thurs and 8.30am-2pm on a Friday.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 4 March 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
- Maintaining the cashbook and reconciling the bank (2 accounts)
- Entering purchase invoices onto relevant spreadsheets and ummarise
- Matching purchase invoices to PO’s
- Coding and processing of purchase invoices accurately to Sage 200
- Maintaining supplier accounts, ensuring transactions allocated
- Statement reconciliations
- Creating new supplier accounts, determining CIS status
- Resolving supplier queries
- Calculating CIS and processing CIS credits to accounts accordingly
- Determining Reverse charge VAT where applicable and recording data
- Preparation of 2 weekly Subcon payment runs. Preparation of 30-day and 45-day end of month payment runs
- Liaise with Contracts administrator to ensure up to date with current jobs
- Liaising with Contracts Director, ensuring all invoice have his approval
- Assist in any other duties that are required in your skill set
Where you'll work
Unitech House
Prospect Road
Burntwood
WS7 0AL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLEGE
Training course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
- Assist with the investigation and response to financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as, preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using varying approaches and different media methods with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Highly motivated
- Enthusiastic to learn
- MS Office Knowledge
About this employer
Unitech Engineering Ltd is the largest business in the Unitech Group and was formed in 1991. We operate from our 90,000-square foot production facilities in the heart of the West Midlands. Through our experience, we have the expertise to offer full turnkey projects, with many impressive references both in the UK and worldwide.
After this apprenticeship
Permanent role.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000009694.
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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 4 February 2026 at 11:59pm)