Overview
This Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant apprenticeship provides the opportunity to gain practical experience in bookkeeping, financial administration, and general office support while working at AFP Technology Limited in Leeds. The role focuses on supporting the company’s day-to-day financial operations, maintaining accurate financial records, processing invoices, and helping ensure payments and accounts are managed efficiently.
Apprentices will develop skills in bookkeeping, financial record keeping, communication, and office administration. Responsibilities include raising customer invoices, monitoring outstanding payments, reconciling bank transactions, checking supplier invoices, and ensuring financial records are accurate and up to date. The role also involves preparing quotations for IT hardware and services, researching product prices, communicating with customers, and providing administrative support to company directors through diary management, scheduling, and taking meeting notes.
The apprenticeship is suited to someone who is organised, reliable, interested in finance, and has good numerical, IT, analytical, and attention-to-detail skills. Previous experience is not required as full training will be provided. Applicants must have GCSE English and Maths at grade 4. Training will be provided by Luminate Education Group through weekly online classroom sessions while working towards the Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant qualification. The role is office-based, working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with a starting wage of £14,560 per year. A full-time permanent contract is highly likely after successful completion.
About the Employer
Having started up in November 2019 during the height of the pandemic when many businesses we’re struggling, we buckled down, worked hard and just got on with it. We learned how to grow during a difficult time when just getting an appointment to see someone, was hard enough. Now, we are thriving, with a team of 13, soon to be 15.
We are very friendly and open team, honesty and fairness is at the heart of everything we do. Unlike many IT providers, we are not just trying to empty the pockets of our customers. Our approach is to keep our customers happy, all of the time, not just when they first sign-up. Over 5 years we have only lost 3 clients which we believe is testament to our service level.
We want our team to stay with us for the long-term too, so we try to be flexible as an employer. This role is office-based, however, everything we do, all of the systems we use, are all 100% cloud-based. We have been careful since day one to ensure this so that our team can work from anywhere, anytime. Should you need to work from home some days, whether it’s a doctors appointment or your child’s school sports day, just give us a heads up.
Our company is part of a group, within our premises there is also a managed print provider, a software firm and a document management provider. Across the group there are around 40 staff. We all share communal areas and enjoy a good chin-wag. We also have group-wide social events throughout the year.
Training to be Delivered
- Develop bookkeeping and accounting skills by recording and maintaining accurate financial transactions.
- Learn how to raise customer invoices, process supplier invoices, and monitor outstanding payments.
- Reconcile bank transactions against invoices and financial records to ensure accuracy.
- Use accounting and finance software to enter, manage, and review financial information.
- Identify and correct routine financial errors, including payment discrepancies and invoice inconsistencies.
- Develop numerical and analytical skills when reviewing financial records and transactions.
- Communicate professionally with customers, suppliers, managers, and colleagues regarding financial matters.
- Organise accounting tasks, manage workloads, and meet financial reporting deadlines.
- Follow data protection, confidentiality, and cybersecurity procedures when handling financial information.
- Support general office administration, including preparing quotations, managing diaries, and maintaining business records.
- Complete the nationally recognised Level 2 Accounts or Finance Assistant qualification alongside practical workplace experience.
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