Finance Apprentice

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Apprentice to join our team based in Irlam, Manchester. This is a permanent, full time position, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday.
Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution. Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.
Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business. Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success. We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility. We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone’s valued contributions.
Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders. We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands. We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.
**What does this corker of a job entail?**
**The Role; **As the Finance Apprentice you will support and learn from all functions within the finance department whilst undertaking a fully funded Assistant Accountant Level 3 Apprenticeship which incorporates the AAT L3 Advanced Diploma in Accounting.
- Explore each of our core Finance areas - Business Information, Planning & Performance, the Financial Reporting and our Manufacturing Areas
- Take on a real, business-as-usual role
- Make a substantive impact on our company, throughout your journey
- Achieve a professional accounting qualification
- Develop all-round knowledge of a leading UK business’s financial function
- Work towards a permanent Business Leadership or Technical Expert role
- Assisting with report generation and account reconciliation
- Helping to develop how we report and improving our SAP Business Processes
- Investigating variances and suggesting improvements
- Analysing expenditure and assisting in the preparation of the Annual Business Plan

This role is offered on the basis of Monday to Friday 8:30am until 16:45pm 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working may be an option after a training period.
**Key Ingredients**
- Good level of education to degree level (Finance degree or equivalent)
- Excellent numeracy and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience of using SAP is desirable but not essential as full training will be given
- Previous administrative experience is desirable but not essential
- Previous Finance experience is desirable
- Excellent computer, and in particular, microsoft excel skills

**This job comes with a full bottle / glass of benefits**
- Highly competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
- Annual profit share based on company KPI’s
- Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop
- Flexible working options
- Life assurance cover
- A generous thank-you gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
- Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling. **Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.**:

- Well-being App to help support your mental health
- Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
- Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
- Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
- On-site free car parking
- Electric Vehicle charging
- Local Community involvement - Irlam Live ticket discounts and Rugby ticket discounts

**Don’t bottle it, this job will make your career Fizz