Finance Apprentice

Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to join People Pay Global, a rapidly expanding payroll business, and earn while you learn through an Accounts Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship. Working within a supportive finance team, you'll develop practical experience using Xero and Microsoft Excel, expanding into other areas as the role progresses.

About the Employer

People Pay Global was built to provide an outstanding international payroll service to clients across the world. Here for those who don’t have time to worry about payroll solutions and work in over 140 countries, helping businesses to grow their global presence efficiently, and supporting individuals to move money personally. Our clients range from single-person businesses ready to take the next step, to global organisations with many thousands of employees.

What You'll Do

This vacancy has arisen as the current Finance Apprentice has successfully progressed into a developing role within the business.  As a result, we are recruiting a new Finance Apprentice to continue supporting the finance team.

What you will gain:

• As the role progresses there will be opportunity to expand into assisting with the Month-end closing and getting involved within all other areas of the Finance department
• On the job learning while assisting the team with their regular tasks along with any other ad-hoc requests from management
• Ongoing support and training on successful completion of the apprenticeship offering an invaluable pathway for applicants looking for a long-term career in finance

Key Responsibilities:

• Raise customer invoices
• Match payments received in the bank to customer invoices
• Apply ad-hoc charges to customer accounts
• Record supplier invoices
• Arrange payment of supplier invoices via online banking
• Weekly / monthly bank reconciliations
• Assisting with debt collection
• Responding to customer queries
• Other ad-hoc duties to assist the Accounts Team

Who you will be:

• Someone who is keen to learn the finance functions within the business alongside the apprenticeship course
• Someone who values accuracy whilst handling large volumes of transactions
• Someone who is comfortable using a computer including Microsoft packages and be able to communicate well verbally or over email
• Someone who can organise workloads and prioritise tasks when there are deadlines to complete them
• Someone who can take ownership of their areas of work, whilst helping out the rest of the team during the busy month-end process

Training Outcome

As a business that is anticipated to grow year on year, this is a great opportunity for the right candidate to be able to progress within the Finance function and we would look to support the apprentice’s studies from AAT all the way to ACCA / ACA, and as we expand the team, the applicant would be well positioned to receive further on the job training in a wide range of accounting skills, as well as opportunities for advancement and greater responsibilities within the team.

Skills Required

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Team working
• Initiative
• Willing to learn
• MS Office
• Professional
• Works to deadlines
• Dedicated
• Reliable
• Hardworking
• Takes ownership

Qualifications

• Desired - GCSE - English - 4
• Desired - GCSE - Math - 4

Course Information

Course: Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Level: 2

Route: Legal, finance and accounting

Apprenticeship Level: Intermediate

Working Arrangements

Working Week: Monday - Friday, one hour for lunch, includes day release attendance at college.

Expected Duration: 1 Year

Training Provider: CHICHESTER COLLEGE GROUP