Apprentice Accounts Assistant

3 weeks ago


Brighton, United Kingdom Acorn Financial Solutions Limited Full time

**Accounts Assistant**

Are you AAT Level 2 qualified or working towards this qualification, or have a higher qualification? Do you live within 20 miles of Brighton, East Sussex, UK? Be part of our team with a straightforward talking and thinking employer with 30 years’ experience (and still young)

**Qualifications**
- 5 GCSE to include English Language and Maths or equivalent (Grade 9 to 6 (A* to C)) essential

**Responsibilities**
Accounting Assistant creating the financial records for clients.

The duties include
- Processing financial documents onto cloud based filing
- Performing accounting work
- Completing basic administrative tasks
- Using cloud-based accounting software in Capium, Xero and Quickbooks
- Reporting and importing banking entries using Excel spreadsheets

Responsible for several duties related to managing financial records these responsibilities include:

- Processing payments, invoices, income, and receipts and entering data into accounting software or databases and scanning paper copies into cloud-based filing
- Preparing financial statements showing business income and expenditure
- Reconciling the sales and purchase ledgers and managing the bank and cash reconciliations, following up on queries for unidentifiable transactions monthly, quarterly, and annually
- Processing Making Tax Digital VAT returns using cloud-based software, managing reconciliations to capture all relevant entries

**Things to consider**
- Starting salary of £20,020 pa pro rata for 18 years and over; £14,560pa pro rata for 16-17 years
- Apprentices must be in paid employment in the relevant industry to cover the requirements of the standard
- Holiday allowance of 20 working days pro rata plus bank holidays
- Company pension scheme (if eligible) plus work from home weekly allowance as offered by HMRC
- Must have own mobile phone which can be used for work calls and contact
- Work laptop will be offered for all work to be carried out on and kept separate from all personal accounts.

**Training and Qualifications at the end of apprenticeship**
- Accounts / Finance Assistant Level 2
- Day release at Brighton MET College
- On the Job training provided by the employer and team members

**Future Prospects**
- The opportunity to progress through the levels and potentially to a permanent role

**Job Types**: Part-time, Apprenticeship
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: From £14,460.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Brighton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 21/08/2023
Expected start date: 27/08/2023



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