Accounts / Finance Assistant Apprentice

Introduction

This is a great opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Accounts Apprentice to CST Pharma's Accounts/Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience of a busy finance department while working towards a recognised accounting qualification.

About the Employer

Since 2002, CST Pharma have been procuring and supplying the UK pharmaceutical sector.

Fully licensed and regulated by the MHRA our aim is to provide healthcare providers across the UK with the very best products at competitive prices.

Strong relationships with leading pharmacy groups, manufacturers and the NHS ensures that we can offer an impressive range of products at more competitive prices than the traditional wholesale market.

What You'll Do

Purchase Ledger

• Finding / matching & attaching digital invoices to sage 200
• Posting components invoices on ERP & matching & reconciling to goods received & attaching digital invoice to Sage
• Claims & returns  - Posting to sage from Acre aesthetics (SalesForce) & DMG (DMG Dashboard in outlook)
• Writing off matched Goods received notes – ERP

Monthly Accounts

• Stock in transit reports - Acre aesthetics Creating reports & reconciling to nominal ledger monthly

General Tasks

• Credit card transactions - posting transactions and reconciling to statement
• Requalifications of existing customers / suppliers plus setting new ones up on Sage 200
• Carbon emmissions reporting - employee travel  - business mileage

Treasury

• Bank Reconcilliations
• Invoice finance ledger reconcilliations

Sales Ledger

• Credit controll - DMG & Acre aesthetics. Creating reports and chasing overdues
• Posting and allocation of payments across alll companies on Sage and marking as paid in each company's portal
• Entering and submitting weekly Tesco invoices using their EDI portal

Payroll

• Average holiday reporting
• Data entry if not confidential

Systems you will be using:

• SAGE 200 - Accounting package
• WMS - Warehouse management system for stock reports
• ERP - API link from stock system to sage  - various functions & reports for sales and purchase ledger and treasury
• Excel - Training in creating & analysing spreadsheets
• Salesforce - Specifically for Acre aesthetics - knowledge of stock reporting, and various functions for sales & purchase ledger
• Web expenses - Knowledge of our expenses package and of credit cards & reconciliation
• Bank - Dependent on passing a probationary period - own login for bank. Setting up 'one-off' payments, checking payments and searches
• TESCO EDS - Entering and submitting Tesco invoices for payment via their portal
• Spindle
   

Training Outcome

It is expected that upon completion of the apprenticeship there may be an opportunity to remain in a full-time position within the Communities team or progress further within the organisation onto a suitable pathway.

Skills Required

• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working

Qualifications

• Essential - GCSE - English - C/4 or above
• Essential - GCSE - Mathematics - C/4 or above

Course Information

Course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Level: 2

Route: Legal, finance and accounting

Apprenticeship Level: Intermediate

Working Arrangements

Working Week: 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday.

Expected Duration: 1 Year 6 Months

Training Provider: P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED