Finance Apprentice

**Our Philiosophy**

At Walker Crips, our missions is to make investment rewarding for our **clients**, our **shareholders** and our **staff**, and give our customers a fair deal.

We support our financial advisers and our staff by being a technology driven financial services company.

**Our Values**

Founded on traditional values of **integrity, courtesy, fairness** and **loyalty**, we have maintained these ideals and remain committed to serve our clients and deliver good customer outcomes.

**Our Expertise**

Walker Crips provides a range of financial products and services to our customers, namely **investment management, financial planning, pensions, share dealing** and **structured investments**.

We also leverage our technological competence by delivering cloud-based regulation technology solutions to the financial services industry though our FinTech company, **EnOC Technologies.**

**Our history**

Walker Crips' predecessors first bought and sold shares for clients on the London Stock Excahnge in 1914, making it one of the City of London's oldest independent companies.

Today, Walker Crips Group PLC is a public limited company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. After more than a century, our core value remains unchanged; to serve our clients and to deliver good customer outcomes.

**Aim and purpose of the role**

To be the reception point for the office, welcome external visitors including clients, manage the york switchboard and incoming and outgoing post and take responsbility for the facitilies of the York Office. Undertaking a range of financial administration tasks including invoicing clients, processing income transactions, preparing journals and managing office supplies you will complete the AAT level 3 apprenticeship programme (6 hours course time per week) and analyse financial and MI data for directors to aid business decisions, help prepare budgets and undertake project work.

**Key responsibilities and tasks**

**Daily**
- Greet and attend to visitors
- Manage Switchboard for York
- Ensure meeting rooms are clean and tidy at all times
- General Admin support for the York Office staff ie filing, printing scanning etc.
- Manage Incoming & Outgoing Post
- Day to day office presence for Facilities department (monitor/update c Facilities Request spreadsheet)
- Issuing Petty Cash for authorised sundries
- Processing of income transactions on WCFP back office system

**Weekly**
- Scheduling and Managing Meeting Rooms for the upcoming week
- Ensure supplies of refreshments (milk, tea and coffee etc.) and general suppliers stock control i.e. stationery are maintained at a sufficient level
- Monitor PPM schedule (Planned Preventative Maintenance) to notify staff of any upcoming work (in conjunction with Facilities dept.)
- Banking client cheques for any department
- Filing delivery orders & annual service certificates to match against purchase invoices
- Reviewing IO aged debtors for overdue fees and discrepancies
- Preparation of client invoices for WCFP
- Preparing debtor statement for overdue client fees & review WCFP back office provider aged debtors for discrepancies and to chase/refund balances as required.

**Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly and Annually**
- Carry out monthly building checklist which will notify Facilities of any issues that need to be resolved i.e. torn carpet tiles, potential trip hazards
- Manage defibrillator 6 monthly maintenance i.e. check batteries, pads etc.
- Monthly Reconciliation of Petty Cash & Filing
- Monthly preparing client portfolio valuations
- Updating nominal reconciliation of property expenditure to ensure York office operating profit includes the expenditure as per the lease/services agreement.
- Report carbon emissions to enable opportunity for improvement before the end of the financial year and look for ways of reducing it with changes to suppliers and equipment
- Helping prepare Income WIP schedule
- Preparing nominal journal import files such as credit card analysis.
- Assisting with monthly MI & Financial management reporting
- Ebor SIPP & SSAS quarterly fee run
- Expenditure workings for budgets
- Analysis of management information and financial information for directors for business decision making
- Dealing with external and internal auditors, providing requested information and assisting with queries

Other ad hoc tasks as and when required to include point of contact for building reception, showing external visitors around the office and monitoring them onsite, ensuring all paper work is filed to the google drive and due diligence for clients.

**Project Work**
- Assisting set up additional functionality to the accounting system SAGE and other software and documenting the changes to systems and processes for audit purposes and internal procedures
- Archive project (paper files) - electronically file (finance or client folder) or dispose of those documents no longer required as confidential waste
- Assist with collating information as part o