Trainee Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship
Interactive Investor, United Kingdom
Job Description
WHO WE ARE:
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.
We’ve been helping investors for over 25 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching 55 billion and over 400,000 customers.
For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs, and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 40,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.
We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.
WHAT WE STAND FOR:
It’s simple we want our customers to feel confident and in control, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength, and for ii to be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight-talking, and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate about what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves, and interactive investor.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As a Trainee Assistant Accountant, you will provide support to the Finance team, under the direction of the Finance Manager. In this entry-level role, you will be shadowing team members as an apprentice, learning, and refining accounting skills whilst studying towards a professional qualification. You will be responsible for assisting in processing invoices, maintaining accurate purchase and sales ledgers, recording, maintaining, and reconciling cashbooks. In addition, this role will provide support to the Finance Manager and wider Finance team on accounts receivable processing, the production of the Group’s monthly accounts and the maintenance of the Group’s general ledger application.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Working as part of a team, key responsibilities relate to:
- Responsible for the Group’s Accounts Payable processes and associated general ledger records - ensuring suppliers are paid in accordance with group policies and audit trails are maintained for audit, control, and governance
- Responsible for the raising sales invoices and maintaining the associated general ledger records
- Providing support to the Finance Manager and wider Finance Team in the production of monthly Group accounts, which will include the maintenance of the Group’s fixed asset register, generating prepayment entries, allocated cost accruals and bank reconciliations
- Responding to ad-hoc queries and requests for information and analysis from suppliers, customers, auditors, and colleagues as required
- Provide support to Finance and business wide initiatives and objectives as required
- Compiling financial information for reporting purposes and external audit
- Actively study for a recognised professional accounting qualification
Salary: 26,500
Assessment centre dates: April 2024
Start date: Monday 2nd September 2024
ABOUT THE APPRENTICESHIP:
As a Trainee Assistant Accountant, you will develop the technical knowledge plus the professional skills and behaviours to work within Finance, gaining valuable work experience plus achieving a qualification through a structured apprenticeship programme to kick-start your career.
Through the level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship, you will learn the skills to competently perform all day-to-day accounting activities that are required within a finance department. This training will be provided by The Apprentice Academy, who will deliver the apprenticeship. Within your development program, you will learn and grow technical knowledge such as:
- Advanced bookkeeping
- Final accounts preparation
- Management accounting
- Indirect tax
- Spreadsheets for accounting
- Mature your personal skills in personal accountability, communication, teamwork, ethics and integrity, analysis, problem solving, adding value, and embracing change
By the end of the apprenticeship, you will achieve your Level 3 Assistant Accountant apprenticeship plus the AAT Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Accounting.Typically, the apprenticeship will take around 1518 months to complete.
Requirements
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME
- Able and willing to learn new skills and study towards a professional qualification
- Good problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to