Account Assistant Apprenticeship

Accounts Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship – Abbey Multi Academy Trust 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual to join our team for Abbey Multi Academy Trust. As an Accounts Assistant Apprentice, we are looking for someone to study AAT level 2. The purpose of the role is to support day to day financial administration to the hub academies.

Key Details

Salary: £8 per hour increasing to NMW after 12 months

Working hours: Monday - Thursday 8AM – 4PM & Friday 8am – 15:30PM (37 hours per week)

Location:
The Moyes Centre, Bishops Way, Leeds, LS14, 6NU

Apprenticeship Details – 17 months expected duration to complete, working towards your Level 2 Accounts Assistant Qualification (All learning is delivered online/ remote). 

Training Provider: LMP Education (rated 1st best UK training provider)

To provide day to day financial administration to hub academies, ensuring that the Trust’s financial regulations are being always complied with. Your day to day duties include:

• To maintain customer services levels as set out in the Trust Finance service level agreement


• To keep accurate data and financial records for all income and expenditure


• To raise sales invoices and process receipts as requested


• To process purchase orders and purchase invoices daily


• To complete supplier statement reconciliations


• To assist in the preparation of payment runs


• To assist with administration duties including supporting the admin of the payment platform and cashless catering


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• To produce monthly debtor reports and chase outstanding balances when required


• To deal with queries from suppliers, debtors, budget holders and other staff


• To assist with month-end procedures


• To assist in finance year-end procedures


• To assist the Director of Finance to evaluate internal controls, identify solutions and revised controls


• To support audit work upon request


• To work as part of the centralised finance team and to provide support at other academies as required

Driving licence/access to vehicle and willingness to travel to Abbey MAT locations with Leeds and Halifax

Essential & Desired skills:

• GCSE’s passes grades 4-9 (A*-C) in Maths and English (Desired)


• Finance related qualification or experience within in this role (Desired)


• Evidence of commitment to personal professional development (Essential)

Personal qualities:

• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively as part of a team as well as on own


• Effective communicator


• Confident, positive and approachable


• Logical, methodical with a meticulous eye for detail


• A keen user of technology, IT systems and applications


• Ability to work on own initiative without detailed direction


• A commitment to our mission and values demonstrated by current practice


• Support the Christian ethos of Abbey Multi Academy Trust

About the Employer

Our academies will provide an environment which is welcoming, caring, calm, disciplined and purposeful and which will stretch our young people academically, support them pastorally and help them develop socially and spiritually. Abbey MAT is committed to providing high quality education for all within an ethos which seeks to work in partnership to educate, nurture and empower through academic, vocational, mental, physical, cultural and spiritual opportunities so that each individual in our academies is able to achieve their full potential. Our vision and values underpin all the work of the Trust. Everyone is encouraged to explore their own spirituality and to recognise and understand that of others.

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