Saga Finance Apprenticeship Scheme

Job Introduction

**This is a **hybrid** role, working from home and with _regular days in the office_ each week to collaborate with colleagues. So, you must live within a commutable distance of our Enbrook Park, Folkestone office**

Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. For us, for you, make do will never do. Good enough? Not even close. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga.

You will need strong academic results, with an interest in a career in Finance through studying to become a qualified accountant. You will be working across wide business areas and will need excellent communication, presentation, and numeric skills with an attention to detail and strong commercial awareness.

You will have access to the following:

- Access to an apprenticeship scheme offering study towards an accountancy qualification such as ACCA or CIMA including 20% of time available to study.
- Stepped salary with exam progression. An expected fully qualified salary of £36k+ with opportunity to be remunerated well beyond this as your experience and career develops.
- Training in different areas to develop well-rounded accountants - systems/technical accounting knowledge and budgeting/forecasting/commercial awareness.
- Specific apprenticeship events and support network with guest speakers, career progression advice, training opportunities, and access to a mentoring scheme.
- Support from our c.100 strong Finance colleague community, many of whom have trained at Saga and reaping the benefits in their own careers.

So, if this is of interest to you, get in touch

Main Responsibilities
- Responsibility for the maintenance of accounting records and associated processes.
- Month-end close including all aspects of general ledger accounting and reporting.
- Key role in forecasting and budgeting process, heavily dependent upon building relationships with business stakeholders.
- Monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, coordinating with colleagues.
- External reporting including year-end/ interim audits and regulatory returns.
- Development of the month-end close process, striving for process efficiencies.
- Strong academics, both GCSEs and A-Levels or equivalents.
- A desire to study towards ACCA or CIMA professional qualifications.
- Excellent communication and people skills with a range of colleague levels.
- Analytically strong with the ability to question and examine, facilitating the ability to find anomalies or inconsistencies and pursue these through to a resolution.
- Ability to multi-task, be exceptionally well organised; strong level of accuracy; meet established deadlines and work under pressure with a proactive ethos.
- Curious, and autonomous desire to understand the “why” behind processes to perform them better and find opportunities.

Our Saga Values:

- Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen.
- Empathy - Always aware of others.
- Curiosity - Always asking why.
- Collaboration - Always one team, the Saga team

About The Company
Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation. The strength of the Saga brand provides the Group with the ability to develop in-house or partner with suppliers to offer our customers and members highly differentiated, competitively priced products which meet their evolving needs.

Saga exists to help our customers and members lead the life they want to lead. To succeed in this, we know that the most important thing to do is to listen to our customers and members. At the heart of our business model is our drive to know more about our customers’ wants and needs so we are best placed to serve them.

When you join Saga you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Women Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme.

**_To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged _**_on_**_ the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company