Finance Administrator Apprentice (BPP Education Group)
BPP HOLDINGS LIMITED
Manchester (M1 6FQ)
Closes on Friday 27 February 2026
Posted on 22 January 2026
Contents
Summary
An opportunity to join BPP Education group as a Finance Administrator whilst gaining your Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Certificate in Insurance qualification.
- Wage
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£17,000 a year
- Training course
- Financial services administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 March 2026
- 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
To manage the day-to-day administrative tasks to support the schools budgeting process.
The role holder will also be responsible for operating a smooth invoicing process for all the school’s associates and suppliers.
You will work closely with the Head of Academic Admin and Resourcing and Director of Operations to ensure that the school’s budget is managed and monitored accurately throughout the year.
A key part of your role will be to monitor the school’s monthly accruals and to ensure that our associate and suppliers invoices are paid in a timely manner. You will manage a key relationship with the central purchase ledger department to ensure the schools processes are kept up to date. This role will also perform other tasks as required by the staffing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Process and record Freelancer invoices
- Process and record supplier invoices
- Prepare and manage the termly invoicing records
- Populate finance trackers with final resourcing data
- Review the monthly payments report from purchase ledger and gather accruals requirements
- Manage and monitor the schools invoicing inbox
- Monitor the schools termly accruals and report back to the budget holder
- Arrange new freelancer setup, including freelancer engagement forms and statement of work requests
- Ensure all the schools cost centres and processes are up to date
- Produce school finance data
Occasional duties:
- Compile freelancer offers of work
- Support the Freelances team with ad-hoc administration
Where you'll work
St. James Buildings
79 Oxford Street
Manchester
M1 6FQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Training course
Financial services administrator (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply professional standards and best practice to support positive outcomes for stakeholders, in accordance with legal, regulatory, and ethical rules and principles.
- Deliver customer service to internal and or external stakeholders that meets their requirements, considering service level agreements, and ethical and financial regulations, such as Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles, Know Your Customer (KYC), and identifying and supporting vulnerable customers.
- Collaborate with and support financial services teams with planned and ad-hoc tasks or projects.
- Identify potential risks and align tasks with company guidelines to effectively mitigate risks, escalating where appropriate.
- Escalate issues where appropriate in line with organisational policies, procedures, and legal and regulatory requirements.
- Use digital systems and processes to meet business and customer needs, considering financial services regulatory and governance requirements.
- Handle data safely and securely and share information in compliance with data protection legislation and organisational policy.
- Develop and maintain collaborative and positive relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of their individual expectations and needs.
- Select and use appropriate communication methods for the audience and circumstances, and convey technical and non-technical information to stakeholders, adapting as needed and in compliance with relevant policies, guidelines, and legislation.
- Use available tools and technique to research, collate, analyse, and present data relevant to their role and audience.
- Plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, managing time and resources effectively.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and recommend solutions to improve processes.
- Apply current and developing sustainable principles and techniques relative to role.
- Participate in training and development activities related to their role, and stay up to date with relevant legal, regulatory, and other changes affecting the industry.
- Work in line with organisational equity, diversity, and inclusion policies.
- Apply professional standards and best practice to support positive outcomes for stakeholders, in accordance with legal, regulatory, and ethical rules and principles.
- Deliver customer service to internal and or external stakeholders that meets their requirements, considering service level agreements, and ethical and financial regulations, such as Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles, Know Your Customer (KYC), and identifying and supporting vulnerable customers.
- Collaborate with and support financial services teams with planned and ad-hoc tasks or projects.
- Identify potential risks and align tasks with company guidelines to effectively mitigate risks, escalating where appropriate.
- Escalate issues where appropriate in line with organisational policies, procedures, and legal and regulatory requirements.
- Use digital systems and processes to meet business and customer needs, considering financial services regulatory and governance requirements.
- Handle data safely and securely and share information in compliance with data protection legislation and organisational policy.
- Develop and maintain collaborative and positive relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of their individual expectations and needs.
- Select and use appropriate communication methods for the audience and circumstances, and convey technical and non-technical information to stakeholders, adapting as needed and in compliance with relevant policies, guidelines, and legislation.
- Use available tools and technique to research, collate, analyse, and present data relevant to their role and audience.
- Plan, organise and prioritise own tasks, managing time and resources effectively.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and recommend solutions to improve processes.
- Apply current and developing sustainable principles and techniques relative to role.
- Participate in training and development activities related to their role, and stay up to date with relevant legal, regulatory, and other changes affecting the industry.
- Work in line with organisational equity, diversity, and inclusion policies.
Training schedule
More training information
- BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace
- Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Work within tight deadlines
- Punctuality
- Commitment
- Good attendance
- Willingness to be flexible
- Written communication skills
- Microsoft Outlook
- Excel, word and PowerPoint
- Proactive
- Highly motivated
- Adaptable to change
- Telephone communication skills
- Time management skills
Other requirements
- Ability to record accurate data/information in a database
- Ability to take and deliver messages accurately and clearly and concisely
- Ability to produce work to a consistently high standard, with attention to detail, within tight deadlines.
- Ability to work sensitively with different people’s needs.
About this employer
Our experience in building careers spans over 40 years. We believe in progress for everyone. For learners who want to develop, and the business partners that strive for growth. We work closely with employers and professional bodies to make our learning as real world, relevant and future facing as possible. We do it for the biggest names and we do it in specialist areas. That includes law, accountancy, financial services, nursing, technology and more. And it covers a range of qualifications to develop careers at every stage and every level of development. We educate over 80,000 students annually, working with 7000 businesses across 170 countries. Our expertise covers learning for a number of different levels. They include apprenticeships, university courses, professional qualifications and professional development.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- The opportunity may offer a permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship depending on performance
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000010156.
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Closes on Friday 27 February 2026
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