Accounts Apprentice

**Job Title: Accounts Apprentice**

**Department: Administration**

**Reporting to: Accounts Manager**

**Responsible for: N/A**

**Band: E**

**Scope of the Role**

To provide support across all areas of the Accounts function. This role will provide an opportunity to gain significant experience within a robust and varied Administration Department.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**

The below list is not exhaustive, but the main duties and responsibilities will be:

- Purchase Invoice processing
- Data entry
- Supplier payments
- Managing incoming phone calls
- Handling post
- Filing, copying, scanning documentation
- Liaising with customers and suppliers and dealing with queries
- Ad-hoc administrative tasks such as arranging catering and visitor inductions
- Working with internal departments
- Any other reasonable requests

**Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours**

The postholder will possess a range of the following knowledge, skills, and behaviours:

- Educated to at least GCSE standard, with 5 passes at Grade 5 or equivalent including English and Mathematics
- Good IT skills; ability to use Microsoft Office packages using Word, Excel and Outlook
- Good organisational skills, in order to manage work to meet conflicting deadlines
- High level of attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good time management and organisational skills, has the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects
- A friendly and professional manner
- Driven and self-motivated
- Ability to exercise discretion and confidentiality
- Demonstrates a keenness to learn and development and, take direction
- Able to work within a team
- Able to work on own initiative, sometimes under pressure and to tight timescales
- A positive ‘can-do’ attitude

**Core Soft Skills**

The postholder will be required to demonstrate the following key core soft skills for their band:

- Commitment
- Strong work ethic
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Understands the organisations core values

**Salary**: £11,797.50 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Peterlee, SR8 2RL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)
- bookkeeping: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Accounts Assistant