Finance Assistant Apprentice

About this opportunity

Your role will be supporting the finance team in their day-to-day transactions, maintaining financial records and systems, assisting with bookkeeping tasks and being able to communicate with various stakeholders.

A normal day would include:

• Managing day to day transactions
• Maintaining financial records
• Assisting with bookkeeping
• Reconciling bank statements, credit card transactions
• Posting journals
• Raising and posting bank transactions
• Support month end tasks
• Monitoring a shared finance inbox
• Dealing with varying stakeholder across the departments e.g. sales, marketing, pre sales
• Being able to handle/direct finance queries
• Support the wider finance team
• Progress to supporting debtors process
• Communicate via email and in person
• Ad-hoc requests & tasks as and when suitable’/required

How you will be supported
Full training and support will be provided by The Growth Company to help you achieve your apprenticeship and reach your full potential in your role. Along with full support of the wider finance team throughout your formal training and beyond.

What will happen next
New applicants to The Growth Company who meet any basic entry requirements of the role will be contacted within two working days to be invited to meet a member of our team. You will then have the opportunity to find out:
• More about this vacancy and any others you are suitable for
• Any training you need to complete
• What the next steps will be

How you could get there
If you would be catching public transport for this role, visit the Journey Planner on www.tfgm.com to see how you would get there and how long it would take.

What you should have to apply

Minimum of Maths and English GCSE’s Grades 5 and above or C and above. Ideally if you have some accounting experience or qualifications.

Personal Qualities

• Confident
• Able to ask questions
• Accountable
• Organised and responsible for own role
• Takes charge
• Able to communicate with varying levels of seniority

Skills

• Good attendance record ideally has some work experience even if not in the finance field
• Attention to detail
• Problem solver
• Excellent communicator
• Right first-time approach
• Being able to adapt to changing priorities
• Being able to escalate and deal with queries confidently
• Confidently convey written communications to relevant stakeholder