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.

**Person Specification/Skills**
- Self-starter with a dynamic "can do" attitude.
- To be able to work effectively during pressure periods while prioritising and multi-tasking.
- A high level of written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels in a clear, appropriate and timely fashion.
- Meticulous and attentive.
- Interpersonal skills - good inter personal skills in handling clients and colleagues alike. To work effectiely both independently and as part of a team.
- Passionate about quality, detail and accuracy in systems and comfortable learning new computer software systems.
- Analytical skills, commercially awatr and a desire to optimise processes.
- Ambition to develop a career in finance within a highly regulated financial services company.
- A quick learner with good organisational skills and excellent timekeeping.

**Aim & Purpose of the Role**

As a finance assistant you will be assisting in all the financial reporting, learning all aspects of accounting and studying towards an AAT Level 3 finance qualification, study support provided with 6 hours training course per week (BPP)

**Typical daily routine**

**Daily Tasks**
- Checking processing of purchase invoices to ensure they are correct
- SAGE daily bank reconciliations & reporting cash balances
- Allocation of cash receipts and payments to purchase ledger and sales ledger accounts
- Processing of income transactions on WCFP back office system
- Review outstanding debtors and assist chase/resolve queries

**Weekly**
- SAGE aged debtors reconciliation & reporting & investigating discrepencies
- SAGE aged creditors reconciliation
- Minimum of weekly payment run for suppliers
- Ad hoc client invoices

**Monthly**
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Preparations for journal postings to SAGE 200
- Assisting with the preparation of management accounts
- Income WIP schedules
- Prepayments & accruals
- Nominal reconciliaions to trial balances
- Posting journals
- Monthly MI reports
- Rolling P&L & monthly forecasts

**Quarterly**
- VAT returns
- Reconciliation of income
- Reviewing an intangible client list quarterly to assess for impairment

**Annually/Adhoc**
- Budgets/projections
- financial statements and year end reporting
- updating procedures for changes in processes and legislation
- Liasing with auditors to answer queries, analyse results, explain variances to PY, changes in processes and provide workings and documents
- Analyse expenditure for the purpose of group allocation of costs and calculate intercompany recharges and reconcile intercompany balances.
- Liasiing with external professional tax firm to provide information for professional tax computations and checking the computations include the correct detail
- Revewing an intangible client list quarterly to asses for impairment
- Payroll support as and when required

**Project Work**

Ongoing work on SAGE 200 systems, updating information and assisting in the setup of additional functionality to optimise efficiency and accuracy (avoid manual entry) and reporting design for ease of access of financial information.

**Education & Experience**
- Experience of working in an office desirable.
- Good GCSE grades in English and Maths (level 4 or above)
- Accounting /business experience and/or qualifications desirable
- Comfortable using computer systems, ideally word & excel

**Salary**: £12,500.00-£16,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee mentoring programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 01/09/2023