Finance Apprentice

**Finance Apprentice**

**Salary: £20,000 per annum**

**Working Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (One day study leave). To support our main Museum events, some occasional weekend and bank holiday working will be required, including New Year’s Day (time off in lieu will be given for these).
**About the Department**:
The Finance and Support Services Team are responsible for all of the back-office support functions of the Museum, encompassing Finance, IT, HR, Volunteering, Membership and Bookings.

**Main areas of responsibility**:

- Accounts payable - set up new suppliers, enter invoices, ensuring appropriate authorisation has been obtained and correct costs codes assigned
- Sales ledger - raise sales invoices, as requested, for educational visits, group visits, filming, royalties and for rent and relevant recharges to the tenants of the Brooklands Museum Trust. Allocate BACs receipts against either sales ledger invoices or against the correct income code.
- Credit control duties to ensure the aged debtors are kept to a minimum.
- Weekly banking of cash takings. Act as the point of contact for the providers of the cash collection service.
- Process and record income received by the Brooklands Museum Trust and its subsidiary and reconcile to weekly reports
- Processing staff and volunteer expense claims; ensuring accurate posting into the accounting software.
- Reconciling the petty cash account on a monthly basis.
- Process credit card transactions onto accounting software
- To receive and sort all paperwork in the Finance Office, distributing and filing as appropriate.
- Scanning of documents onto electronic financial filing system
- To assist other members of the finance team when required

**Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and you may be asked to support other departments across the Museum.**

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:
**Knowledge & Experience**:

- Good knowledge of IT systems and finance processes.
- Experience of using Excel and comfortable general functionality.

**Skills & Qualities**:

- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in your work and an understanding of why these are important to the role.
- Good numeracy skills.
- Ability to work with pace to meet deadlines.
- Ability to remain calm and confident when under pressure.
- Understands the need for flexibility in role activities and responds accordingly.
- Self-motivated, confident in prioritising and working without too much supervision.
- Takes ownership and accountability for own behaviour, actions and outcomes and recognises the impact these have on others.