Sales Apprentice

First Funding Ltd

LONDON (EC3A 8AA)

Closes in 31 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 26 February 2026

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Summary

We seek a results-driven Funding Expert to join our Financial Services Team. You will engage prospects via outbound calls, present tailored business finance solutions, and build lasting client relationships. This role offers strong growth potential while promoting our lending products in a competitive market.

Wage

£17,000 a year

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Salary will be between £17k and £19k depending upon experience.

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
9 am-5 pm Monday to Friday.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Thursday 2 April 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

2

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

  • Conduct outbound calls to prospective clients, identifying their financial needs and presenting suitable business loan products.
  • Customise and pitch business loan solutions to align with client requirements, demonstrating product benefits and features.
  • Achieve and surpass daily targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Build, nurture, and maintain strong, professional relationships with clients to ensure high customer satisfaction and loyalty.
  • Identify opportunities for cross-selling and upselling additional financial services to existing clients.
  • Stay informed about the latest financial products, industry trends, and market developments to provide accurate and relevant information to clients.
  • Maintain detailed and accurate client records within CRM systems to ensure seamless follow-up and service.

Where you'll work

63 ST. MARY AXE
LONDON
EC3A 8AA

Training

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

Training provider

CAMBRIDGE PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY LIMITED

Training course

Sales executive (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Sales planning and preparation: Set effective targets using sales forecasts. Prioritise customers and activities to grow account value and maximise return-on-investment in line with your organisation’s strategy. Formulate or refine customer plans and objectives. Create efficient territory plans where appropriate.
  • Customer engagement: Effectively communicate and interpret customer information exchanged through written, verbal and non-verbal communication. Develop a customer engagement style that effectively opens sales conversations, builds rapport, enhances customer relationships, and adapts to different customer’s social preferences.
  • Customer needs analysis: Be highly skilled at effective questioning and active listening techniques to understand the customer’s needs, guide the sales conversation appropriately, create mutual understanding, and build trust and affinity with customers.
  • Propose and present solutions: Develop sales proposals and deliver them using a presentation style and technique appropriate for your customer. Present relevant products and/or services, explain features and their advantages, and clearly articulate the value and benefit of the solution for the specific customer. Use and adapt a range of techniques to draw-out and overcome common sales objections.
  • Negotiate: Research the customer’s likely desired outcomes and negotiating stance. Develop responses to likely objections. Identify your own organisation’s needs, such as minimum price and acceptable terms. Negotiate or trade variables effectively.
  • Closing Sales: Be attuned to verbal and non-verbal buying-signals andmove to close at an appropriate point in sales conversations. Develop ethical techniques to close sales and confirm customers’ purchase agreement.
  • Gathering Intelligence: Collect, analyse and interpret market intelligence and share it appropriately and effectively within your organisation.
  • Time Management: Use and adapt appropriate tools and techniques to prioritise and manage your time effectively.
  • Collaboration and team work: Contribute effectively within a team environment. Work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders. Manage communications with the cross-functional team in relation to the effective delivery of your sales, such as finance and service delivery. Support continual business improvement by sharing best practice with sales team colleagues and assist the marketing team to develop new marketing collateral.
  • Customer experience management: Deliver a positive customer experience. Manage customer enquiries and issues effectively. Take proactive action to prevent and minimise customer concerns and complaints. Handle all customer interactions professionally to the customer’s satisfaction.
  • Digital skills: Effectively use digital tools to conduct research and target customers in line with the overall sales strategy. Able to deliver presentations and meetings using digital communication. Complete accurate records and process sales in accordance with your organisation’s policies, procedures and digital CRM systems.

Training schedule

Training will take place at our office in Central London.
You will be provided a Mentor to support you as you work through the programme of online learning, workshops and assignments designed to equip you with a solid range of marketing skills.

More training information

Our training provider, Professional Academy, will build a personalised programme around the requirements of the Apprenticeship and you personal experience and needs

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
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Customer care skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working
  • Persuasive and Negotiation
  • Ability to handle rejection
  • Prior sales experience
  • Work in fast-paced environment

About this employer

We are a finance broker based in London

https://first-funding.co.uk (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Salary can be incresase if targets are hit.

After this apprenticeship

We expect employment to continue with us once the apprenticeship has been completed, and to fulfil an important role in our organisation.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CAMBRIDGE PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000018154.

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Closes in 31 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 11:59pm)