Aat L3 Apprentice Accounts Assistant On Pride Park

**Job Information**_
- Location: Derby
- Postcode: DE24 8BX
- Programme: Assistant Accountant L3
- Salary: £16,000 - £18,000

**Brief overview of role**

Are you looking to kick-start your career in finance? Bright Stars Nursery Group are recruiting an Accounts Assistant to join their team Reporting to the Senior Management Accountant, you will support with the preparation of accounts, maintaining ledgers, budget variance analysis, bank reconciliations, year-end audit and financial administration.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Typical duties will include:

- Accounts preparation for various nurseries - which includes but not limited to accruals, prepayments and journals, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis of budget.
- Bank reconciliations; comparing bank statements for company accounts
- Assisting management accountants with funding/revenue postings
- Accounts administration
- Aged Debtor Reconciliations
- Assist with year-end audit
- Ad hoc accounting projects

**Training**

The Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship standard includes 6 AAT exams, in addition to the Synoptic Assessment as part of the End-Point Assessment (EPA) process.

The knowledge units will be delivered at the EMA training hub in Derby or Nottingham (depending on apprentices’ location) through day release.

AAT Modules are as follows:

- Introduction to Bookkeeping (L2 Unit)
- Principles of Bookkeeping (L2 Unit)
- Management Accounting Techniques
- Financial Accounting: Preparing Financial Statements
- Business Awareness
- Tax Processes for Business

**Career Progression**

Upon completion of the apprenticeship, there is a full-time opportunity available, and potential to continue studying at level 4. Bright Stars are looking for someone who can demonstrate technical competence, initiative and a willingness to learn.

**Skills and Personal Qualities**
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisational skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non-judgemental

**Things to consider**

Bright Stars has a culture which promotes employee well-being and work-life balance. This includes flexible working hours (within core hours of 8am till 6pm) and 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays. The company provides free tea, coffee and cakes in the office and paid for Christmas parties

**EMAzing Rewards**
- **At EMA we value our Apprentices highly, hence why we have created a reward and recognition platform especially for them**_
- **The platform is called EMAzing and it is designed to recognise hard work and reward in the process. It is that unbelievable, we will even go as far as saying that no one else in this industry offers anything quite like this.**_
- **It offers: Discounts at thousands of shops, FREE birthday gift, FREE weekly Caffe Nero drink or Gregg’s sausage roll, FREE monthly Rakuten film stream, FREE learning and development tools and so much more **_
- **As well as: A recognition area with e-cards to applaud good work, celebrate milestones & appreciate peers, EMA podcast series, monthly awards and EMA Alumni.**_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Apprenticeship

**Salary**: £16,000.00-£18,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Do you have 5 GCSEs C/4 or above or equivalent i.e. functional skills?
- How will you travel to the workplace daily?
- Why are you interested in an apprenticeship in accountancy?

Work Location: One location