Accounts and Finance Assistant Apprenticeship
Start Date: Various
- Length 12 months + 3 months End Point Assessment (EPA)
- Study Full-Time
- Location Employer Based
Qualification Gained
Level 2 Accounts and Finance Assistant Apprenticeship
More about the course
Are you ready to dive into the world of finance and make a real impact from day one? As an Accounts and Finance Assistant Apprentice, you won’t just be learning, you’ll be contributing to the business.
From day one, you'll be a valued member of the team, helping to keep finance operations running smoothly and accurately. You’ll gain hands-on experience using digital finance tools, supporting qualified accountants, and learning the ropes of everything from double-entry bookkeeping to preparing financial statements.
This is your launchpad into a rewarding career in finance! You’ll build essential skills, work with experienced professionals, and play a key role in managing accounts payable and receivable, reconciling figures, and producing trial balances.
If you're detail-oriented, eager to learn and excited about numbers, this is your opportunity to grow, thrive, and shape your future in finance.
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What can I do with a qualification in Accounts and Finance?
Daily tasks:
- Assesses and advises on factors affecting business performance.
- Determines staffing levels appropriate for accounting activities.
- Plans external and internal audit programmes, arranges for the collection and analysis of accounting, budgetary and related information, and manages the company.
- Participates in the formulation of strategic and long-term business plans, assesses the implications for the organisation financial mechanisms and oversees their implementation.
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Daily tasks:
- Produces and/or assesses reports and recommendations concerning marketing and sales strategies.
- Controls the recruitment and training of staff.
- Examines and analyses sales figures, advises on and monitors marketing campaigns and promotional activities.
- Discusses employer.
- Liaises with other senior staff to determine the range of goods or services to be sold.
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Daily tasks:
- Directs the arranging of conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
- Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures and advertising rates.
- Reviews and revises campaign strategy in light of sales figures, surveys, etc. and takes appropriate corrective measures if necessary.
- Conceives advertising campaign to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way.
- Defines target group and implements strategy through appropriate media planning work.
- Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed and develops the most appropriate strategy to deliver the objectives.
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Daily tasks:
- Stays abreast of relevant legislation, considers its impact on the organisation.
- Considers alternative work procedures to improve productivity.
- Examines and reports on company and departmental structures, chains of command, information flows, etc. and evaluates efficiency of existing operations.
- Develops and administers salary, health and safety and promotion policies.
- Undertakes industrial relations negotiations with employees.
- Provides or arranges for provision of training courses.
- Oversees the monitoring of employee performance and career development needs.
- Oversees the preparation of job descriptions, drafts advertisements and interviews candidates.
- Determines staffing needs.
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