Apprentice Accounts Assistant

Surface Transforms; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 19,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturer of carbon-ceramic materials is seeking an Apprentice Accounts Assistant to join their Finance team. Responsibilities include managing supplier reconciliations, matching invoices, and assisting in financial reporting. This role offers full AAT training and support for your professional development. Ideal candidates will be motivated, reliable, and organized, with an interest in pursuing a career in Accounting and Finance. AAT qualification is a plus, and applicants should be prepared for a hands-on work environment and collaboration with the finance team.

Benefits

Full training provided

Support for AAT qualification

Opportunity for rapid progression

Qualifications

• Highly motivated for a career in Accounting and Finance.
• Good communication and organisation skills.
• Reliable with a desire to take on more responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly supplier statement reconciliation.
• Involvement with matching invoices to purchase orders.
• Responsible for daily bank reconciliations.
• Assist with preparation of management accounts.

Skills

Motivated for Accounting and Finance

Good communication skills

Organisation skills

Reliable and responsible

Education

AAT Qualified/part-qualified

Tools

SAP

iDocs

Job description

Apprentice Accounts Assistant

Who are we

Surface Transforms are experts in the development and production of carbon-ceramic materials and the UK's only manufacturer of carbon-ceramic brakes for automotive use.

Here at Surface Transforms, our mission is 'Innovate and develop a sustainable, world leading, high performance braking system to push performance boundaries to new levels. Investing in our people and processes to empower and enable profitable success.'

Our Values:

• Leadership - Decisive, united together, acknowledging our success
• Collaboration - Empowering and challenging our entire team
• Communication - Thorough, inclusive, agile considered decisions
• Ambition - Resilience through brave and bold thinking
• Excellence - Striving to continuously improve our high standards
• Trust - Autonomy to develop and deliver, knowing you are fully supported

We are recruiting an Apprentice Accounts Assistant into our Finance team, who will work closely with the Financial Controller responsible for transactional tasks such as managing invoices, processing payments, reconciling bank statements, assisting with financial reports and taking on other department and process improvement projects.

What you'll be doing as our Apprentice Accounts Assistant:

• Manage and be responsible for the monthly supplier statement reconciliation, including chasing suppliers for statements and resolving reconciling differences.
• Involvement with matching invoices to purchase orders in the iDocs system.
• Manage and be responsible for the monthly company credit card reconciliation.
• Responsible for the daily bank reconciliations.
• Involvement with sales and debtor reporting.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts and statutory accounts
• Assist the Finance team in various other ad hoc duties and projects

The Skills, Knowledge and Experience you will need as our Apprentice Accounts Assistant:

• Highly motivated for a career in Accounting and Finance.
• Willing and able to take ownership of the tasks assigned to them.
• Have initiative to make changes or improvements to tasks or processes where they see them.
• Good communication and organisation skills.
• Reliable with a desire to take on more responsibilities.

Nice to have:

• AAT Qualified/ part-qualified
• Experience of manufacturing

Support we will give to our Apprentice Accounts Assistant:

• You will complete AAT L2 or L3 through our chosen Apprenticeship provider.
• Full training will be given upon joining for daily tasks and on the IT systems such as SAP and i-docs
• Full support will be given by the finance team for on-the-job training and study support
• With the projected growth profile of the company, it is anticipated that there will be opportunities to progress rapidly with Surface Transforms for the right candidate.

You’ll have these personal attributes:

• Attention to detail and self-starter mindset
• High level of resilience is required
• Can do/hands on/get involved attitude.
• Inquisitive
• Collaborative

Hours:

Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm, Friday 8am - 2.30pm

Salary:

£19,000 or NMW dependent on age